8 Signings That DESTROYED Wrestling Promotions - Vince Russo! CM Punk! Hulk Hogan! Stone Cold Steve Austin?!
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
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The call is coming from inside the house! Simon Miller presents 8 Signings That DESTROYED Wrestling Promotions...
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| 0:00.0 | Well, may he destroyed is a little strong, but these people certainly didn't help. |
| 0:04.0 | It always takes more than one wrestler or individual to ruin a promotion, but on occasion, |
| 0:08.5 | people do debut and cause such a fuss all over the place. |
| 0:11.9 | Well, it's definitely not good, and after a while, we all get upset. |
| 0:14.9 | Why are you doing this? |
| 0:16.2 | And what's wrong with you? |
| 0:17.3 | There's also been some repeat offenders on the headline one too, so I thought we may as well |
| 0:21.6 | go through history and see how said individuals hold up today. Maybe we do need to be nicer. Let's find |
| 0:28.1 | out. Number eight, Vince Rousseau and WCW. Now I know, Mr. Rousseau, you don't know who I am. |
| 0:33.8 | That's fine. I don't expect you to know, but I would guess more words have been written about his influence on wrestling since the attitude era, and not all of it is good. Of course, in the late 90s, he was super helpful to the WWF, and a lot of stars then will sing his praises. Those who are part of that creative process will also mention how Russo needed to be reigned in, however, which is why Vince McMahon was so good for him. |
| 0:55.4 | He calmed down the truly mad ideas. |
| 0:57.9 | It was McMahon who found him as well in early 1997 after being sick and tired of how Raw was being presented. |
| 1:03.6 | He then threw a copy of WWF magazine in front of Jim Ross, Jim Connor and the rest, and asked, |
| 1:08.8 | why aren't we doing stories like the one being pitched here |
| 1:11.7 | by a Vic Venom, also known as Vince Rousseau's alter ego. Vince was soon brought in and yeah, |
| 1:16.6 | he embraced attitude, and the company blew up. It's why he got off at the keys to the castle |
| 1:21.1 | when WCW was in desperate need of a kick-up the ass, although here he was given carte blanche, |
| 1:26.5 | do what you want, just save the day. |
| 1:28.7 | That's not what happened. |
| 1:30.0 | And instead, the very we want wrestling southern crowd were presented with Viagranopol matches, |
| 1:35.5 | Judy Bagwell on a forklift fight, and wrestlers outwardly saying that all of this is fake, |
| 1:40.4 | so they're not going to go along with the script. |
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