Episode 5: POZCAST - Writing Wrestling with Vince Russo
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The fifth POZCAST with John Poz will feature former WWF and WCW Head Writer, Vince Russo as we discuss writing wrestling. On this show we talk all about how to write a show, comparing a writer vs a booker, using titles as props, working off of bullet points vs working off of a script, and why execution is so important in writing for wrestling. All this and a whole hell of a lot more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Vince Rousseau's The Brain. Now that's not just the coolest. That's not just the best. That's just incredible. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. It. Okay. Hello and welcome to Pro Wrestling 101. |
| 1:00.0 | I am your host, GP, at John Paz from the two-man power trip. |
| 1:02.9 | With me, today is a very special guest. |
| 1:05.0 | He was the man behind the attitude era, the head writer of the WWW, WCW, TNA, etc. |
| 1:11.4 | The man behind the brand, the one and only Vince Russo. Vince, welcome into Pro Wrestling 101. How are you doing, what's going on? I'm doing good. How are you, my friend? Doing good. I had to do a subdued hello and welcome just so I don't get any crap from you. Ooh, yes. Hello. Little Mad Dog Russo, you know, mixed in there. |
| 1:09.4 | Hello. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:11.1 | I love, I love him, man. He's a man. I can't listen anymore to talk radio because Frances is not on anymore. I'm not happy about it. Yeah, no, that was great, man. You know, living in New York during that time of their height, Mike and the Mad Dog was phenomenal, man, I loved to listen to him every day. The best. Anybody, like, besides them, is just downhill. Yeah. They were the best. Now, as far as today, we're doing Pro Wrestling 101 and wanted to talk about writing and none other, you know, no one had better really to talk about writing than the headwriter, the man behind the highest ratings ever near history of the business. |
| 2:03.7 | You, so kind of the first question with just writing, is writing the same as booking or is it |
| 2:09.1 | completely different? |
| 2:10.6 | Completely different. |
| 2:11.8 | I'll tell you why it is completely different. |
| 2:15.1 | Usually a booker is a former wrestler or even in some cases an active |
| 2:21.9 | wrestler. And what are bookers going to do? Because, you know, like I said, they're former |
| 2:28.3 | wrestlers. What bookers do is they start with the match. What two guys are going to have a great match? So they will book |
| 2:40.2 | that match and then they will try to make sense out of a story. With a writer, it's completely the other |
| 2:49.5 | way. It's the story first. |
| 2:52.9 | What two guys would match up with a good story? |
| 2:56.9 | So it's the story first, and then the story will organically become the match. |
| 3:06.4 | So it's really bookers start with match first, |
| 3:11.1 | writers start with story first. That's a huge difference, bro. Yeah, definitely. Didn't really |
| 3:17.6 | think about it in those terms. Yeah, I guess that's right. So when you're the writer, |
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