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All right, should they talk to Vince Russo?

Last week we left off when we're talking about just starting to get the ball rolling with

W.W.F. and what it was going to take to spool this thing up and move forward.

So it was about a nine month process.

Things started getting hot and heavy.

What, you've got to refresh my mind because, man, I remember so many parts of what I did back in the day, but not the specifics.

So what did we start doing back in the day when we really started moving the needle?

You know Steve, I'll tell you what moved the needle. You know, Steve, I'll tell you what moved the needle.

And I don't know, and this isn't a cheap plug.

I don't know if you saw this article I wrote on Pyro and Ballyhoo, my website.

But I wrote an article of who was really successful for

the Attitude Era, okay? When I go back and I look at that now, you know, and

again, you know, Steve, here here's this is what people don't

understand because they they have opinions and you could talk to your blue in the

face they're going to believe those opinions and stick with those opinions regardless of what you say.

But again, if you really want to go back to the genius of Vince McMahon, to, being in the middle of it, the turning point was when Vince had the insight to hire Mike Tyson for that pay-per-view because here was a guy that just bit off of

Vanda Hollyfield's ear he's bored from boxing the entire world is talking about it. Vince has a vehicle on

pay-per-view Connect the dots and that's what Vince did and when Tyson came in what that did Stephen

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