Pritchard is right on the right money with his thoughts on Dixie Carter. Dixie Carter has no business ever appearing in front of a TV camera on TNA Wrestling. Her character has no presence and doesn't come across on TV very well at all.
I'm sure Pritchard now has his head buried firmly up Dixie Carter's arse. The guy is a stooge and a kiss ass. I don't necessairly disagree with what he's saying here but he's still a stooge
@PureDynamiteKid this is the same guy who was fired from WWE for selling inormation to third party websites, he probably does the same shit in TNA, and if he had the opportunity, he would do it in ROH or any other promotion too
@AdoublesLdouble Yep. In Bischoff's book, he talks about how infuriated Vince would get that idea's were leaked to Meltzer and other dirt sheets and didn't know who it was. I can guarantee that Pritchard was one of them
@flameheadx17 Makes a bit of sense though when you think about it.Notice how since this has happened Vince as rehired the Rock,Kevin Nash and Mick Foley for TV to booster its ratings and keep the gap wide (Which he doesnt really need to.) Maybe Vince is afraid that one of his long time associates that had a big influence on WWF/E programming for many years who knows the buisness inside out has defected to a rival organisation and could actually bang out an entertaining product.
@flameheadx17 Can you blame me for being ignorant after that torrent of shite they have put on Tv?You cant blame me for being Honest If I dont like shit I wont watch it but I only went by what I read recently so I was miss informed.Excuse my ignorance but I pretty much gave up on TNA.I dont watch TNA at all now but since this "Change" has come about I might just take your advice and give it a try again.Hopefully Hogan,Russo and Bischoff will soon be gone and finally we will have an alternative.
Now Prichards editing skills and video presentations and production values are second to Non.He can sell TNA if its managed correctly (Which it isnt). But Prichard looks at Wrestling the same way Russo looks at it so dont expect much.If he was that valuable WWE wouldnt have let him go after all these years think about it.
@jgoth08 Isnt TNA still running the Sting Joker gimmick and didnt they make Hogan the champion over a younger talented Robert Rude to get the buisness moving into the future and the right direction?Yes I can see the leaps and bounds TNA have made under Bitchard or Russo or whoever is running the ship these days Ive given up caring and thinking about TNA being a seriouse contender to WWEs crown to be honest,lol.Im sure Russo is still around that rat always crops up in Wrestling like a bad penny.
@Pulpedtoafiction31 Wow, u dont watch TNA lol Roode is champ and has been top star and Sting isnt doing the Joker gimmick. lol ignorant to talk shit about something u dont watch aka u are talking about what u dont know.
@flameheadx17 that don't change the fact that Dixie Carter knows nothing about wrestling, is ignorant of the business, and has no clue how to run a professional wrestling company. Bring back Jerry Jarrett
Prichard is fucking awesome. I knew he was awesome from how he is now booking TNA. But never saw him talking about anything. Sounds like he knows his shit. EVERYONE knows Russo is horrible. EVERYONE. Why would anyone defend him? It's not some stupid internet fans saying this. It's everyone on earth saying he sucks
@Toad166666 I don't know about that fam. He has his moments from time to time, I'll grant you that, but its hard for me take Jay Lethal's character seriously and really invest a lot of stock into his character.
@lildwayne21 Jay Lethal needs to make his own character, having the macho man gimmick to me, is just stupid. I think the same applied for John Morrison, under all the pyro, slow-mo and flashy attire he had no character but he was a great wrestler. I guess you can bring it back to the WWE creative team, they say that wrestlers get input on their character but with someone like Morrison I highly doubt they even take his input and run with it.
Prichard is just another political, ass-kissing, back-stabbing yes man. He's still butt-hurt over the fact that Russo replaced him as WWE's head writer. The last time Prichard was on any creative team was in 1996 and he along with the IWC's darling Jim Cornette were behind characters such as The Goon, Freddie Joe Floyd, Billionaire Ted, Who, Fake Diesel & Fake Razor. Also, Cornette was booted from the WWE Creative Team in late '97. So how the hell did he filter Russo's shit from '97-'99?
@BlackArmyTV Prichard wasn't Russo's filter- Vince McMahon was. Russo has great ideas, but he doesn't seem to find a way to make the storylines easy to follow. That is why WCW sucked at the end with storylines and why TNA hasn't been as good as it could be.
Na, the fact that you posted that alone tells me that he's not. A lot of people respect Lethal's skill and talent, so he's not underrated just under utilised.
@whatthehellvideos Rock's face turn & the McMahon-Helmsley Regime (Corporation 2.0) are all built off of what Russo pitched & scripted a year earlier. But when it came time for the writers to create something original, we got the lackluster "Who ran over Austin" storyline & over the top comedy, opposed to the more serious tone of Russo's shows.
Yeah Bruce....those old people...the same old people WWE had like 5 years earlier.Talk about Dixie being bad in TNA yet WWE ran Linda McMahon in there.At least Dixie can carry a sentence without seeming scripted.Bruce is a WWE ass kisser.That being said TNA doesn't need those same old people and Dixie really shouldn't be on tv till she's comfortable in her tv role.
@hec2006 Totally agree.If I waas a WWE talent scout Jay Lethal would be working or strongly suggested by myself to be working for WWE right now.Same with Samoa Joe,Chris Daniels and other young talent kicking there heels for a paycheck in TNA right now.
Jay Lethal is a talent which just shows how out of touch Prichard is.Mind you he is just a producer isnt he?Anyway if it hadnt been for Prichards old man knowing Vince Little Brucie would probably be working the Harry Potter rides as a ticket Touter along while watching Jay Lethal on tv.
Jay Lethal is a great talnt and just shows the ignorance of Bruce Prichard who is great at making video packages and promoting the WWE but just showed he knows nothing about real talent.WWE can thank Jim Ross who does know something about Talent scouting.
JR was so underrated when it came to scouting talent he was the guy that brought in everyone during the WWF/E's peak era and never gets credit for it period. The man in charge of talent now is freaking terrible couldn't scout talent if his life depended on it...
TNA was shit when Hogan came. Now that Prichard is head writer, TNA has been amazingly better. Hmm, wonder why. Cause if he's just some ignorant tool, I can't see how he saved TNA. TNA used to be amazing. Didn't have the star power, but had the show quality that was perfection. Then came the gimmicky shit and shitty matches. Russo was a horrible writer. Hogan made it even worse. Prichard made it better than it's been in the past 4 years. This is huge
Jay Lethal booking proved that TNA is a cluster-fuck. They put Lethal in a program with Flair that got over and elevated Lethal only to have him job to Robbie for weeks then leave him off T.V for MONTHS. Then Lethal's first match in MONTHS is a squash match with Abyss, then Lethal in gone for a couple of more weeks. Finally when Jay called out TNA for there booking, TNA fired him and used his comments for a storyline, TNA couldn't book a plane flight.
Please, Bruce Prichard is a tool normally not worth mentioning. But of course he probably had something to do with TNA getting rid of the X-Division and becoming more and more like an attempt at being WWE light.
I wonder if this was before Bruce got canned by WWE for his drug issues (I had only learned about this today) and got hired by TNA. I'm sure being the infamous big toadie ass kisser brown noser Bruce is, he's singing a 100% different tune now.
@ejr23 I found out today that Prichard was fired by WWE and is actually now a TNA employee (and apparently clawing his way up the power structure). I had no idea, as he was a long-term member of Vince's toadie stooge club. I bet he's got a different view now that he has no options left other than TNA for a paycheck.
Bruce Pritchard is one of my all-time favorite people in wrestling. I knew very little about him before Brother Love but he was awesome at it as it gave wrestling a character it had never seen before.
The sad thing is TNA has way more talent than WWE right now, specifically way more name talent. But they don't know what to do with it. They've bogged Angle down in this stupid angle with his ex wife for how long now? Why isn't he back in the title picture? They put the belt back on Sting YET AGAIN and no disrespect to him, but the man is 52 years old. He can't go like he used to. AJ Styles and Samoa Joe should always be at the top of the card and they're not which is pathetic.
@Antrizzle2009 The angle between Kurt, Jarrett and Karen is brutal. Sting is still decent, but how can he have the title and a guy like Samoa Joe is an afterthought on the show?
@fjccommish The really sad thing about guys like Styles and Joe is that if they ever did go to WWE, they would be jobbed out. Just look at Daniel Bryan. That's what would happen to them. They don't have the WWE "look". Styles would be taking FU's from Cena every week. These guys have the been the faces of TNA since its inception and should be the franchise players, much like Sting was for WCW in the 90's. It just sucks how stupid TNA is at times.
Vince Russo & the WWE basically stole ideals from that little bingo hall in philly & made a killing off of it. That's why WWE put ECW on the payroll cause they were taking their talent, their materials & creative ideals. Like Russo said in an interview it wasnt rocket science so write that edgy material cause u had ECW to look foward to. People need to reconigze that ECW was the newest hottest thing in the early to late 90s & WWE need to complete with WCW so they took what was hot at the time!
Tna has the better talent but wwe has the better storylines and tna is just sumtimes aweful to watch like when ric flair gets the mic and talks 4 10min about how he is god they need to get rid of the hogan bichoff shit and use that money they save to pay the real wrestlers how can still go
Bruce Pritchard's head is so far up Vince McMahon's ass, he can tell what he had for lunch 2 months ago.
Bruce knows deep down that TNA is WAAAAY better than anything WWE has done in 10 years.
When WWE gets someone as talented as AJ Styles or Robert Roode then maybe a real fan of wrestling will defend them, but i don't ever see that happening.
Sorry, but you're totally wrong. TNgAy is a pile of shit, and you're very confused. Wrestling ability doesn't make the better organization. Look at Hulk Hogan; look at the Rock. They weren't great wrestlers, but they helped to make WWE great. Styles isn't anywhere near their league in terms of drawing power. WWE has a far more entertaining show, and WWE has plenty of good wrestlers, too.
You knocked Prichard yet can't refute a damn thing that he said, and the ratings pretty much prove that nobody gives a shit about RVD anymore. TNgAy Impact was getting 0.5's with him as champ.
Brother Looooooove...is a idiot!!! He actually called Jay Lethal a jobber and said TNA's story line were confusing ...really now? So you mean to tell me that WWE has their shit together with all the talent...no, no not quite Bruce.
I'm no Russo fan, but the post-attitude era has had more disgraceful storylines than anything Russo or Bischoff could image. Vince beats the crap out of his daughter. Kurt Angle rapes Sharmelle. Kane's necrophilia. Orton says Eddie Guerrero is in hell. Vince McMahon has made out with most of the divas. He wanted to do an incest angle with Stephanie. He probably wants to in real life. He's no filter.
tna is the biggest joke ever, only people who are still in love with the old ecw and extreme crap love tna but in truth its only being mentioned because its the only other company out there besides wwe.
@86Stooy well let's look at wwe it has cena in ever segment and is pushing an old fat 61 year old commentator. wwe tag team divison and women's divison is dead. tna has good tag team divison beer money, genme, the thugs gunner and murphy ink ink and guns. women's who can wrestle!
That's the one major thing I like about TNA is that they actually atleast care about there other divisions (Tag , Women's , X Division , and World title). There will always be a feud for all the titles its not like the WWE right now where the only titles they care about are the world and WWE titles while the other titles basically sit there doing nothing and just looking like a prop on someone's waste with no meaning...
@hec2006 say i mean tna gets alot of hate heat on here. i agree when it comes to tna hiring old hacks who are no draws like hogan and flair. but tna has better women's divison and tag team divison because there tag champions beer money are always defended there belts vs gunn, or now mexican america. women of tna are in feuds mickie vs angelina tara and miss t as tag champs. wwe has great women like melina, beth, tamina natyla but not book right.
I am sick of everybody giving credit to the wrong people when it comes to the attitude ara. Paul Haymen and ECW created the attitude era and were the first company to let Steve Austin say what ever he wanted to say. If it weren't for that WWE would have never let him Become Stone Cold Steve austin in the 1st place. all WWE and WCW ever did was rip off the original ECW
@badass87irocz28 All that is true. Now can give credit to WWE and Vince for putting wrestling on the map as far as everyday/week TV time. The world knew WWE/F. Vince brought wrestling live on TV. Then WCW followed and ECW. Plus WWE did invest in ECW and gave them a boost and help push their first PPV by having the ECW guys "invading" WWE. Alot of ppl didn't know not that much about ECW before that time.
you're partially right. the attitude era wasn't just about what 1 company was doing. It was about what all 3 companies were doing at the same time. The WWE with the Rocky, Stone Cold, DX stuff, the WCW with Sting vs NWO and the cruiserweights and ECW with their extreme element made wrestling very fun to watch.
@badass87irocz28 I can't say that WWE wouldn't have let Stone Cold be Stone Cold since VInce doesn't even watch anything but WWE. Steve Austin first started to shine in the Hollywood Blondes with Pillman. They were great but they got split up. After this he floundered until he went to ECW. His ECW tenure was very short, and his value to the company wasn't high. Doesn't mean he wouldn't have been big if he stayed.
@badass87irocz28 It's not ECW it's destiny. If Austin wouldn't get fired by Eric he wouldn't joined ECW. If ECW wasn't their Russo wouldn't get the idea of Attitude. But don't forget ECW is the (rip off) american version of FMW. Paul Heyman is an Awesome manager but not a great booker Jim Cornette is. But everything that happened to pro-wrestling always helped WWF/E to grow stronger.
@badass87irocz28 In truth, Steve Austin had to steal that moment at King of the Ring. When he first came to WWF from ECW he was saddled with a dead-end gimmick in the Ring Master. But yes, His work in ECW was probably a contributing factor to his eventual success.
If Russo was responsible for the attitude era boom, why wasn't WCW or why isn't TNA more successful?
If Mcmahon was just as responsible for WWFs attitude era boom, then why did it drop in quality since then? (including missed opportunities with the takeover of WCW/ECW & talent etc)
Is it maybe the attitude era boom was actually because of stealing the original ECWs ideas? So imo, throw Heymans name in with both the vinces for credit for the "attitude era boom"
@BRINGBACKSID I think you sort of answered your question. The 90's "Attitude Era" was a result of the WWE Creative team being in touch with not just their viewing audience, but society in general. From everything I've read Vince Russo was an important part of that time BUT one of the reasons why he was successful is because Vince edited his ideas. Russo made some good contributions but at the end of the day it was Vince who had the final say. So the success can be attributed to both men.
This is so very true and its what's totally wrong with the WWE nowadays (until recently with the CM Punk angle) in that they've been totally out of touch with what the audience wants nowadays and if not for the WWE name they wouldn't be getting ratings in the 3s nowadays if not for the brand name.
@TVTraX - Vince McMahon or Vince Russo weren't responsible for the boom of the attitude era? Are you kidding me? Did you hear of Steve Austin, or the Rock?
@BRINGBACKSID : As almost everyone knows, Russo was only a part of the puzzle... as far as the quality dropping off, well no one hits a homer every time. The WWF was red hot in '84- '87 and then had a 9-year cool period. They got hot again in '96-'99 and are currently going thru another cool period. And, finally, if you're going to start throwing influences' names in the Attitude Era's architect pool, you'll have to go back to Jerry Jarrett. That's where Heyman got alot of ECW's style from...
@BRINGBACKSID one of the reason ECW after 1996 was terrible because their top wrestlers were leaving, they had low budgets but also ECW ran out of ideas and became more predictable, every one was being hardcore. Yes ECW brought the idea of hardcore from japan but WWE used better then them.Attitude succeed because of talented stuffs, most top wrestlers were allowed to share their own ideas just like Cena and Punk now are allowed to go little over the top.
@strrb75 Heyman said it himself. He went into TV without knowing the ways it worked and got screwed over by Turner. Not to mention the mainstays were getting bought out by WCW and WWE.
@BRINGBACKSID maybe the real people responsible for the attitude era boom where the on screen talent who people actually paid to see like stone cold the rock DX the undertaker mankind etc maybe the backstage guys dont matter that much
Sounds like brother love is a bit bitter. Well none of his bitching about TNA is gonna change the fact that he doesn't have a job any more. have fun in the unemployment line you piece of shit.
@ARealHulkamaniac awww typical tna mark answer. does tna give you morons a book of comebacks? b/c u all say the same tired lines. try something creative. oh wait tna fans just like tna dont know what that is.
If Vince Russo was so great (as a few actually claim), then how come he couldn't recreate that success in WCW in 2000? Or in TNA right now? WCW lost, what, $62 million in 2000?
@LockardKevin because in WWF he had people like Vince saying what he could do creativly but in WCW there was nobody saying "you cant do that or that" so he just did just whent loose and we got pinata matches and JR impersinations
@LockardKevin He was only there for three months & raised the ratings two entire points, before being sent home. Also, the financial problems were brought about by Bischoff giving guys such huge contracts. Russo was forced to rewrite every show before going on the air because TNT/TBS Standards & Practices would overrule any attempts at being as edgy as their main competitor. So it watered down his writing & his overall vision.
I remember how Bruce Prichard treated us in Memphis. What a piece of shit he was in my opinion, which means about as much as his now in the wrestling business. Drink that down Brother Hate! He once told R.Truth "you're a black man in a white man's world". Roaddog made him apologize!
I think Bruce Prichard is way out of line knocking Jay Lethal. Especially when his gimmick was imitating a corny red-faced southern preacher. Lethal is one of the most promising up-and-coming talents in pro wrestling today. It's not Lethal's fault that shitty booking has saddled him with shitty pointless gimmicks. However, for what it's worth, they have recently put the X Division Title on him.
russo in a shoot said austin was paranoid and more difficult to present scripts to and rightfully so as he came from backstabbin WCW. when russo presented the beer truck idea austin said why not just drive the pickup truck as he thought they might make austin look bas as he was too powerful for mcmahon
whereas the rock always did everything on scripts and was easy going & made it work. this pritchard is just biased & jelous as russo was promoted while he was demoted
austin was paranoid that mcmahon thought austin was too powerful for a wrestler. as austin was number 1 he has power in the fact he can say who he jobs to or works with (e.g. austin refused to work with jeff jarrett as they had beef) among money issues. austin could basically say NO to mcmahon, so he thought mcmahon got russo to try make austin look bad on tv with the beer truck to set an example of whos boss and whos made who. turns out russo was always tryin to help austin
exactly which is why russo said in the interview austin was more difficult to work with due to paranoia, he was always second guessing everything and said it was like a tug of war with him, unlke the rock who was always confident and ready to make everything work
Agree and Disagree. I cant stand when people say Vince Russo wasnt the reason for the Attitude success. Vince created Mantuar, the Goon, and Dink. Vince also created Stone Cold, The Rock, and anyone else from the era. What happened to WWE to go from the Goon to the Rock? Simple. Vince Russo. Cornette and Pritchard were around for the Mantaur garbage. When Russo came in? That all changed. Maybe it was just a "magical" coincidence, and everyone woke up and had answers they didnt have before.
@TheWrestlingSoup Good point...I too think that a lot of people are quick to dismiss Russo's role during the WWE Attitude Era. I have to say though, there's a lot of similarities between WCW Nitro when Russo was in charge and TNA iMPACT with Russo as head of Creative Team. I think he can be a good contributor and has some good ideas, but it's clear when he's in charge his television product kind of sucks.
@TVTraX Absolutely agree. Theres a reason that Russo seems to fail on his own, and looking back at WWE there was definitely a chemistry between Russo and McMahon that created great wrestling angles. Its honestly a shame that McMahon is such a corporate machine, and Russo is such a pansy, otherwise who knows. We might still have great wrestling angles on TV.
@AmericanNohbuddy I agree. But basically this interview implies that Russo didnt contribute the majority to the Attitude era. I believe that is false. I believe that Russo was muzzled on alot of ideas through McMahon, but to say that most of the reason that era existed wasnt because of Russo? Thats just being blind. Like I said. Cornette was there before Russo arrived. So was Hayes and others. Why didnt it change for the better before Russo was pulled in?
@TheWrestlingSoup Bruce Prichard spoke on the Monday Night Mayhem radio show about Vince Russo taking credit for the creation of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin:
"There’s a guy over in TNA (Vince Russo) who has taken credit over the years for the creation of ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin, The Rock, and people like that. At the end of the day, the guy who deserves credit for ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin is Steve Austin.
@JosephDanielsTC7R He went out and delivered. Steve went out, and he was ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin 24/7. When Russo used to write up all these scripts, Steve would look at it, crumple it up, and throw it in the trash. Steve would go out, and he had a rapport with Vince McMahon, and he used to come to me and say ‘I wanna say this.’ I said ‘Hey man, that’s life, so if you wanna take the ass-chewing when you get back, do what you think is right.’
@JosephDanielsTC7R After a while, Steve gambled, and went out, and he did what he thought was right. He had an ear, and he knew what was working, and what they were buying and weren’t buying, and at the end of the day, it may not have been the ideal creative situation that was created, but Steve made it his own, and made it bigger than anything that’s ever been done in the business. Without talent, you can have the greatest creative in the world -- if they can’t deliver, it doesn’t matter."
pritchard is lying. i have a russo shoot pro wrestling insiders and russo clearly says it was all stone cold. russo says all he did was put austin and rock in those situations but it was all them that made it work. bruce pritchard is a red faced liar
well said...these guys had no clue and it was when mcmahon read russos wwf magazine article and called russo up in front of all his booking team. russo thought he was in trouble and mcmahon slammed the magazine down and said this is what we need. russo said the looks he got from the rest of the team was ice cold. they were jelous that russo went straight to the top and to this day spread bullcrap about russo.
Russo w/o McMahon...see dying days of WCW...
jsc094020 6 days ago
Jay Lethal is the BEST and ROH has him and they will benefit from this talented guy
DariusKnightshade 1 week ago
Maybe Dixie should turn heel...
austinfailz 1 week ago
prichard is doing well for tna and adding lagana and losing russo both help a lot too..Time will tell what mark can not yet understand...
SOULECKZ 2 weeks ago
Jay Lethal is a great wrestler whether he's playing black machismo or not.
joehigashi2012 2 weeks ago 3
Yet brother love is working for tna now..
aprilmorrison000 3 weeks ago 3
ironic thing is he now works for tna
tottiballbag10 3 weeks ago 6
2:09 saying wwe are doing 3mes as much as tna even made the pic of dixie jump
666rocko 4 weeks ago 2
vat eva hapin tu da midnight rida vas he from san fransisky vat a talent shabat shalom
dackdaddy 1 month ago
In the picture Bruce Prichard looks like he has dreadlocks on top of his head
athleticfan33 1 month ago
Pritchard is right on the right money with his thoughts on Dixie Carter. Dixie Carter has no business ever appearing in front of a TV camera on TNA Wrestling. Her character has no presence and doesn't come across on TV very well at all.
lildwayne21 1 month ago
@lildwayne21 I agree, but you can also say the same for Vince McMahon
jackrules24 3 weeks ago
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Just because I loooooove yooooooou doesn't mean I like you
aldammam27 1 month ago
fuck this guy ' Jay ;ethal is tha shit !
DatGizzyLoc 1 month ago
Why is Sean Hannity on there?
smkfet 1 month ago
anybody else remember this line? 'BLUBBER LOVE!' 'blubber love?' 'oh did i say that?'
bd189 1 month ago
funny how just one year later, Bruce Prichard is now the Senior VP of Talent Relations. Basically, he's the TNA version of John Laurinaitis.
Argee11 1 month ago
and whos head of creative in TNA?
TheMrwrestlingnerd 1 month ago
I'm sure Pritchard now has his head buried firmly up Dixie Carter's arse. The guy is a stooge and a kiss ass. I don't necessairly disagree with what he's saying here but he's still a stooge
PureDynamiteKid 2 months ago
@PureDynamiteKid this is the same guy who was fired from WWE for selling inormation to third party websites, he probably does the same shit in TNA, and if he had the opportunity, he would do it in ROH or any other promotion too
AdoublesLdouble 1 month ago
@AdoublesLdouble Yep. In Bischoff's book, he talks about how infuriated Vince would get that idea's were leaked to Meltzer and other dirt sheets and didn't know who it was. I can guarantee that Pritchard was one of them
PureDynamiteKid 1 month ago
Seeing Dixie in an AC/DC shirt is fuckin hilarious!!!!
Rayla840 2 months ago
@flameheadx17 Makes a bit of sense though when you think about it.Notice how since this has happened Vince as rehired the Rock,Kevin Nash and Mick Foley for TV to booster its ratings and keep the gap wide (Which he doesnt really need to.) Maybe Vince is afraid that one of his long time associates that had a big influence on WWF/E programming for many years who knows the buisness inside out has defected to a rival organisation and could actually bang out an entertaining product.
Pulpedtoafiction31 2 months ago
@flameheadx17 Can you blame me for being ignorant after that torrent of shite they have put on Tv?You cant blame me for being Honest If I dont like shit I wont watch it but I only went by what I read recently so I was miss informed.Excuse my ignorance but I pretty much gave up on TNA.I dont watch TNA at all now but since this "Change" has come about I might just take your advice and give it a try again.Hopefully Hogan,Russo and Bischoff will soon be gone and finally we will have an alternative.
Pulpedtoafiction31 2 months ago
Now Prichards editing skills and video presentations and production values are second to Non.He can sell TNA if its managed correctly (Which it isnt). But Prichard looks at Wrestling the same way Russo looks at it so dont expect much.If he was that valuable WWE wouldnt have let him go after all these years think about it.
Pulpedtoafiction31 2 months ago
@jgoth08 Isnt TNA still running the Sting Joker gimmick and didnt they make Hogan the champion over a younger talented Robert Rude to get the buisness moving into the future and the right direction?Yes I can see the leaps and bounds TNA have made under Bitchard or Russo or whoever is running the ship these days Ive given up caring and thinking about TNA being a seriouse contender to WWEs crown to be honest,lol.Im sure Russo is still around that rat always crops up in Wrestling like a bad penny.
Pulpedtoafiction31 2 months ago
@Pulpedtoafiction31 Wow, u dont watch TNA lol Roode is champ and has been top star and Sting isnt doing the Joker gimmick. lol ignorant to talk shit about something u dont watch aka u are talking about what u dont know.
flameheadx17 2 months ago
@flameheadx17 that don't change the fact that Dixie Carter knows nothing about wrestling, is ignorant of the business, and has no clue how to run a professional wrestling company. Bring back Jerry Jarrett
AdoublesLdouble 1 month ago
Disagreed with Jay Lethal though. Jay is amazing
jgoth08 2 months ago
Prichard is fucking awesome. I knew he was awesome from how he is now booking TNA. But never saw him talking about anything. Sounds like he knows his shit. EVERYONE knows Russo is horrible. EVERYONE. Why would anyone defend him? It's not some stupid internet fans saying this. It's everyone on earth saying he sucks
jgoth08 2 months ago
Brother Love vs. Pope Deangelo Dinero in a televangelist match (make it happen)
XSC3 3 months ago
Just because I loooooove yooooooou doesn't mean I like you
MrRosenburg 3 months ago
IS BROTHER LOVE SERIOUS JAY LETHAL IS A GREAT WRESTLER,BETTER THAN MOST OF THE TWATS HE TRAINED
Toad166666 3 months ago
@Toad166666 he never trained any wrestler, he was an announcer/booker/manager. You are thinking of his brother, Tom
AdoublesLdouble 1 month ago
@AdoublesLdouble fuck them both jay lethal is awesome
Toad166666 1 month ago
@Toad166666 I never said he wasn't but Tom Pritchard actually trained Kurt Angle, so he can't be that bad
AdoublesLdouble 1 month ago
@Toad166666 I don't know about that fam. He has his moments from time to time, I'll grant you that, but its hard for me take Jay Lethal's character seriously and really invest a lot of stock into his character.
lildwayne21 1 month ago
@lildwayne21 what makes you think i am your fam, if anything a nigger like you should be supporting jay lethal.
Toad166666 1 month ago
@lildwayne21 Jay Lethal needs to make his own character, having the macho man gimmick to me, is just stupid. I think the same applied for John Morrison, under all the pyro, slow-mo and flashy attire he had no character but he was a great wrestler. I guess you can bring it back to the WWE creative team, they say that wrestlers get input on their character but with someone like Morrison I highly doubt they even take his input and run with it.
jackrules24 3 weeks ago
Prichard is just another political, ass-kissing, back-stabbing yes man. He's still butt-hurt over the fact that Russo replaced him as WWE's head writer. The last time Prichard was on any creative team was in 1996 and he along with the IWC's darling Jim Cornette were behind characters such as The Goon, Freddie Joe Floyd, Billionaire Ted, Who, Fake Diesel & Fake Razor. Also, Cornette was booted from the WWE Creative Team in late '97. So how the hell did he filter Russo's shit from '97-'99?
BlackArmyTV 3 months ago
@BlackArmyTV Prichard wasn't Russo's filter- Vince McMahon was. Russo has great ideas, but he doesn't seem to find a way to make the storylines easy to follow. That is why WCW sucked at the end with storylines and why TNA hasn't been as good as it could be.
pafootball075 1 month ago
@pafootball075 Not to mention, I lost all respect for Russo when him and his yes man Ed Ferrara did the Oklahoma gimmick in attempt to bury Jim Ross.
pafootball075 1 month ago
Pritchard is and will always be an ass.
SeanMBryans 4 months ago
@SeanMBryans
An ass who has saved TNA wrestling
jgoth08 2 months ago
wheres bruce calling lethal a jobber?
rochedoxxx 4 months ago
@rochedoxxx sort of in the beginning. he says he should work for the harry potter stuff at universal.
Nertrender 2 months ago
NOW BRUCE CAN DO HIS THING IN TNA....IM EXCITED FOR WHAT BRUCE PRICHARD WILL BRING AND DO
XavierXDN72892 4 months ago
Man-O-Man! I thought I was seeing R.I.P. Vince Russo .....That would of been a BIG pratical joke.
packleader1215 4 months ago
New TNA booker
MissDeeCole 4 months ago
Hell, now he's the head of TNA creative - this guy knows which ass to kiss, he has had 3 promotions in like 3 months.
mankind2112 4 months ago
Jay Lethal is the most underrated wrestler in the entire WORLD.
matrix4022 5 months ago
@matrix4022
Na, the fact that you posted that alone tells me that he's not. A lot of people respect Lethal's skill and talent, so he's not underrated just under utilised.
ViolentRiC 4 months ago
@ViolentRiC He's underrated.
matrix4022 4 months ago
@matrix4022
Okay, well that told me then. Me and my silly reasoning.
ViolentRiC 4 months ago
@matrix4022
Agreed. Jay is awesome. If not the most underrated of all time
jgoth08 2 months ago
Amazing he took a job there though.
WrestlingBeltworld 5 months ago
2000 = wwe's most successful year no russo wcw dying ecw dying
whatthehellvideos 6 months ago
@whatthehellvideos Rock's face turn & the McMahon-Helmsley Regime (Corporation 2.0) are all built off of what Russo pitched & scripted a year earlier. But when it came time for the writers to create something original, we got the lackluster "Who ran over Austin" storyline & over the top comedy, opposed to the more serious tone of Russo's shows.
BlackArmyTV 3 months ago
Yeah Bruce....those old people...the same old people WWE had like 5 years earlier.Talk about Dixie being bad in TNA yet WWE ran Linda McMahon in there.At least Dixie can carry a sentence without seeming scripted.Bruce is a WWE ass kisser.That being said TNA doesn't need those same old people and Dixie really shouldn't be on tv till she's comfortable in her tv role.
DTMTroy 7 months ago
@hec2006 Totally agree.If I waas a WWE talent scout Jay Lethal would be working or strongly suggested by myself to be working for WWE right now.Same with Samoa Joe,Chris Daniels and other young talent kicking there heels for a paycheck in TNA right now.
Pulpedtoafiction31 7 months ago
Jay Lethal is a talent which just shows how out of touch Prichard is.Mind you he is just a producer isnt he?Anyway if it hadnt been for Prichards old man knowing Vince Little Brucie would probably be working the Harry Potter rides as a ticket Touter along while watching Jay Lethal on tv.
Pulpedtoafiction31 7 months ago
"Hell Kurt Angle would be the Champion of Everything" LMAO!!! Its True!!
Papawill13 7 months ago
Does anybody care what this fat talentless piece of shit who never drew a dime has to say about anything?
matthewmayhem 7 months ago
Jay Lethal is a great talnt and just shows the ignorance of Bruce Prichard who is great at making video packages and promoting the WWE but just showed he knows nothing about real talent.WWE can thank Jim Ross who does know something about Talent scouting.
Pulpedtoafiction31 8 months ago
@Pulpedtoafiction31
JR was so underrated when it came to scouting talent he was the guy that brought in everyone during the WWF/E's peak era and never gets credit for it period. The man in charge of talent now is freaking terrible couldn't scout talent if his life depended on it...
hec2006 7 months ago
@Pulpedtoafiction31
TNA was shit when Hogan came. Now that Prichard is head writer, TNA has been amazingly better. Hmm, wonder why. Cause if he's just some ignorant tool, I can't see how he saved TNA. TNA used to be amazing. Didn't have the star power, but had the show quality that was perfection. Then came the gimmicky shit and shitty matches. Russo was a horrible writer. Hogan made it even worse. Prichard made it better than it's been in the past 4 years. This is huge
jgoth08 2 months ago
"she's a nice lookin' lady" What does her looks have to do with anything?Sexiest twat.
sobbyhasselhoff 8 months ago
Jay Lethal booking proved that TNA is a cluster-fuck. They put Lethal in a program with Flair that got over and elevated Lethal only to have him job to Robbie for weeks then leave him off T.V for MONTHS. Then Lethal's first match in MONTHS is a squash match with Abyss, then Lethal in gone for a couple of more weeks. Finally when Jay called out TNA for there booking, TNA fired him and used his comments for a storyline, TNA couldn't book a plane flight.
TheDalinkwent 9 months ago
Please, Bruce Prichard is a tool normally not worth mentioning. But of course he probably had something to do with TNA getting rid of the X-Division and becoming more and more like an attempt at being WWE light.
newfrickinshow 9 months ago
kurt angle rocks!!
guyheero 9 months ago
I wonder if this was before Bruce got canned by WWE for his drug issues (I had only learned about this today) and got hired by TNA. I'm sure being the infamous big toadie ass kisser brown noser Bruce is, he's singing a 100% different tune now.
peterp21 9 months ago
Jay Lethal is one of the most talented wrestlers. He is way underrated. This guy is going to be bigger than the Rock and Hogan in 5 years.
jacobprater1983 9 months ago
It looks like Bruce "Brother Man" Prichard is talking trash about GWF's iMPACT Wrestling.
32rodrick 9 months ago
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU BRUUUUUUUUUUUUCE! Knocking Jay Lethal?! Are you drunk or just an idiot?
ejr23 9 months ago
@ejr23 I found out today that Prichard was fired by WWE and is actually now a TNA employee (and apparently clawing his way up the power structure). I had no idea, as he was a long-term member of Vince's toadie stooge club. I bet he's got a different view now that he has no options left other than TNA for a paycheck.
peterp21 9 months ago
@peterp21
which makes this shoot even more hilarious...
hec2006 7 months ago
Is it true that after this Bruce landed a job with TNA?
fjccommish 9 months ago
@fjccommish
yupp lol
hec2006 7 months ago
Bruce Pritchard is one of my all-time favorite people in wrestling. I knew very little about him before Brother Love but he was awesome at it as it gave wrestling a character it had never seen before.
bigD5172 9 months ago
Bruce Prichard was Brother Love in WWE.
Edgehead10075 10 months ago
The sad thing is TNA has way more talent than WWE right now, specifically way more name talent. But they don't know what to do with it. They've bogged Angle down in this stupid angle with his ex wife for how long now? Why isn't he back in the title picture? They put the belt back on Sting YET AGAIN and no disrespect to him, but the man is 52 years old. He can't go like he used to. AJ Styles and Samoa Joe should always be at the top of the card and they're not which is pathetic.
Antrizzle2009 10 months ago
@Antrizzle2009 The angle between Kurt, Jarrett and Karen is brutal. Sting is still decent, but how can he have the title and a guy like Samoa Joe is an afterthought on the show?
fjccommish 9 months ago
@fjccommish The really sad thing about guys like Styles and Joe is that if they ever did go to WWE, they would be jobbed out. Just look at Daniel Bryan. That's what would happen to them. They don't have the WWE "look". Styles would be taking FU's from Cena every week. These guys have the been the faces of TNA since its inception and should be the franchise players, much like Sting was for WCW in the 90's. It just sucks how stupid TNA is at times.
Antrizzle2009 9 months ago
@Antrizzle2009 idk AJ might flourish in the wwe he's the closest thing to randy orton i've seen
727Superstar 8 months ago
Vince Russo & the WWE basically stole ideals from that little bingo hall in philly & made a killing off of it. That's why WWE put ECW on the payroll cause they were taking their talent, their materials & creative ideals. Like Russo said in an interview it wasnt rocket science so write that edgy material cause u had ECW to look foward to. People need to reconigze that ECW was the newest hottest thing in the early to late 90s & WWE need to complete with WCW so they took what was hot at the time!
The1987Kid 10 months ago
But I thought Brother Love loved everyone???
billa107 10 months ago
@billa107 He luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuVes YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
fjccommish 9 months ago
Welcome to the Brother Love show!!
RinkWarriors 11 months ago
EC FUCKING W got robbed by Vince and Bischoff! >:(
RinkWarriors 11 months ago
Tna has the better talent but wwe has the better storylines and tna is just sumtimes aweful to watch like when ric flair gets the mic and talks 4 10min about how he is god they need to get rid of the hogan bichoff shit and use that money they save to pay the real wrestlers how can still go
nuahseve 11 months ago
Bruce Pritchard's head is so far up Vince McMahon's ass, he can tell what he had for lunch 2 months ago.
Bruce knows deep down that TNA is WAAAAY better than anything WWE has done in 10 years.
When WWE gets someone as talented as AJ Styles or Robert Roode then maybe a real fan of wrestling will defend them, but i don't ever see that happening.
peacesells 11 months ago
Sorry, but you're totally wrong. TNgAy is a pile of shit, and you're very confused. Wrestling ability doesn't make the better organization. Look at Hulk Hogan; look at the Rock. They weren't great wrestlers, but they helped to make WWE great. Styles isn't anywhere near their league in terms of drawing power. WWE has a far more entertaining show, and WWE has plenty of good wrestlers, too.
Edgehead10075 10 months ago
You knocked Prichard yet can't refute a damn thing that he said, and the ratings pretty much prove that nobody gives a shit about RVD anymore. TNgAy Impact was getting 0.5's with him as champ.
Edgehead10075 10 months ago
Brother Looooooove...is a idiot!!! He actually called Jay Lethal a jobber and said TNA's story line were confusing ...really now? So you mean to tell me that WWE has their shit together with all the talent...no, no not quite Bruce.
spaghettifiedmac 11 months ago
@spaghettifiedmac Brother Love: I loooooooove Vince's cock
calamaty 11 months ago
@calamaty Sounds about right.
spaghettifiedmac 11 months ago
I'm no Russo fan, but the post-attitude era has had more disgraceful storylines than anything Russo or Bischoff could image. Vince beats the crap out of his daughter. Kurt Angle rapes Sharmelle. Kane's necrophilia. Orton says Eddie Guerrero is in hell. Vince McMahon has made out with most of the divas. He wanted to do an incest angle with Stephanie. He probably wants to in real life. He's no filter.
spinemelter2000 1 year ago
And Now, Prichard is working for TNA...
MrPunisherHudson 1 year ago 8
@MrPunisherHudson end of story. :)
rkoguy 1 year ago
@MrPunisherHudson yeah, Flair did the same thing.
STKillerB 4 months ago
tna is the biggest joke ever, only people who are still in love with the old ecw and extreme crap love tna but in truth its only being mentioned because its the only other company out there besides wwe.
86Stooy 1 year ago
@86Stooy so old ECW fans are TNA fans now? thanks i needed a laugh
disturbedspike 1 year ago
@86Stooy well let's look at wwe it has cena in ever segment and is pushing an old fat 61 year old commentator. wwe tag team divison and women's divison is dead. tna has good tag team divison beer money, genme, the thugs gunner and murphy ink ink and guns. women's who can wrestle!
MrDivalover1 1 year ago
@MrDivalover1
That's the one major thing I like about TNA is that they actually atleast care about there other divisions (Tag , Women's , X Division , and World title). There will always be a feud for all the titles its not like the WWE right now where the only titles they care about are the world and WWE titles while the other titles basically sit there doing nothing and just looking like a prop on someone's waste with no meaning...
hec2006 7 months ago
@hec2006 say i mean tna gets alot of hate heat on here. i agree when it comes to tna hiring old hacks who are no draws like hogan and flair. but tna has better women's divison and tag team divison because there tag champions beer money are always defended there belts vs gunn, or now mexican america. women of tna are in feuds mickie vs angelina tara and miss t as tag champs. wwe has great women like melina, beth, tamina natyla but not book right.
MrDivalover1 7 months ago
@86Stooy WWE is now WWEkids. End of story.
nljuggalo 1 year ago
I am sick of everybody giving credit to the wrong people when it comes to the attitude ara. Paul Haymen and ECW created the attitude era and were the first company to let Steve Austin say what ever he wanted to say. If it weren't for that WWE would have never let him Become Stone Cold Steve austin in the 1st place. all WWE and WCW ever did was rip off the original ECW
badass87irocz28 1 year ago 18
@badass87irocz28 All that is true. Now can give credit to WWE and Vince for putting wrestling on the map as far as everyday/week TV time. The world knew WWE/F. Vince brought wrestling live on TV. Then WCW followed and ECW. Plus WWE did invest in ECW and gave them a boost and help push their first PPV by having the ECW guys "invading" WWE. Alot of ppl didn't know not that much about ECW before that time.
mistanderson 1 year ago
@badass87irocz28
you're partially right. the attitude era wasn't just about what 1 company was doing. It was about what all 3 companies were doing at the same time. The WWE with the Rocky, Stone Cold, DX stuff, the WCW with Sting vs NWO and the cruiserweights and ECW with their extreme element made wrestling very fun to watch.
sakonhagakure 11 months ago
@badass87irocz28 I can't say that WWE wouldn't have let Stone Cold be Stone Cold since VInce doesn't even watch anything but WWE. Steve Austin first started to shine in the Hollywood Blondes with Pillman. They were great but they got split up. After this he floundered until he went to ECW. His ECW tenure was very short, and his value to the company wasn't high. Doesn't mean he wouldn't have been big if he stayed.
HGeneAnthony 7 months ago
@badass87irocz28 It's not ECW it's destiny. If Austin wouldn't get fired by Eric he wouldn't joined ECW. If ECW wasn't their Russo wouldn't get the idea of Attitude. But don't forget ECW is the (rip off) american version of FMW. Paul Heyman is an Awesome manager but not a great booker Jim Cornette is. But everything that happened to pro-wrestling always helped WWF/E to grow stronger.
MyTubeVersion3 6 months ago
@badass87irocz28 In truth, Steve Austin had to steal that moment at King of the Ring. When he first came to WWF from ECW he was saddled with a dead-end gimmick in the Ring Master. But yes, His work in ECW was probably a contributing factor to his eventual success.
STKillerB 4 months ago
I could've swore I read somewhere recently that Bruce Pritchard was with TNA.
ryanhitmanfury 1 year ago
@ryanhitmanfury You're right. He was hired after this interview.
lbm1985 1 year ago
Here are my questions:
If Russo was responsible for the attitude era boom, why wasn't WCW or why isn't TNA more successful?
If Mcmahon was just as responsible for WWFs attitude era boom, then why did it drop in quality since then? (including missed opportunities with the takeover of WCW/ECW & talent etc)
Is it maybe the attitude era boom was actually because of stealing the original ECWs ideas? So imo, throw Heymans name in with both the vinces for credit for the "attitude era boom"
BRINGBACKSID 1 year ago 15
@BRINGBACKSID I think you sort of answered your question. The 90's "Attitude Era" was a result of the WWE Creative team being in touch with not just their viewing audience, but society in general. From everything I've read Vince Russo was an important part of that time BUT one of the reasons why he was successful is because Vince edited his ideas. Russo made some good contributions but at the end of the day it was Vince who had the final say. So the success can be attributed to both men.
TVTraX 1 year ago 7
@TVTraX
This is so very true and its what's totally wrong with the WWE nowadays (until recently with the CM Punk angle) in that they've been totally out of touch with what the audience wants nowadays and if not for the WWE name they wouldn't be getting ratings in the 3s nowadays if not for the brand name.
hec2006 7 months ago
@TVTraX - Vince McMahon or Vince Russo weren't responsible for the boom of the attitude era? Are you kidding me? Did you hear of Steve Austin, or the Rock?
MissDeeCole 4 months ago
@BRINGBACKSID : As almost everyone knows, Russo was only a part of the puzzle... as far as the quality dropping off, well no one hits a homer every time. The WWF was red hot in '84- '87 and then had a 9-year cool period. They got hot again in '96-'99 and are currently going thru another cool period. And, finally, if you're going to start throwing influences' names in the Attitude Era's architect pool, you'll have to go back to Jerry Jarrett. That's where Heyman got alot of ECW's style from...
DeepSouthWrestling1 1 year ago
@BRINGBACKSID Russo was responsible for the direction...McMahon was responsible for the execution.
Hulkamania4eva 11 months ago
@BRINGBACKSID one of the reason ECW after 1996 was terrible because their top wrestlers were leaving, they had low budgets but also ECW ran out of ideas and became more predictable, every one was being hardcore. Yes ECW brought the idea of hardcore from japan but WWE used better then them.Attitude succeed because of talented stuffs, most top wrestlers were allowed to share their own ideas just like Cena and Punk now are allowed to go little over the top.
MyTubeVersion3 6 months ago
@BRINGBACKSID well then using your ration of thinking, why wasnt ecw more successful and why is ecw out of business?
strrb75 6 months ago
@strrb75 Heyman said it himself. He went into TV without knowing the ways it worked and got screwed over by Turner. Not to mention the mainstays were getting bought out by WCW and WWE.
ECW got screwed over by the way of the world.
thatonedude675 6 months ago
@thatonedude675 but that still falls on ecw nobody else, its heymans fault he didnt how tv worked not vinces
strrb75 6 months ago
@BRINGBACKSID maybe the real people responsible for the attitude era boom where the on screen talent who people actually paid to see like stone cold the rock DX the undertaker mankind etc maybe the backstage guys dont matter that much
4180stephen 6 months ago
@BRINGBACKSID
I'd definitely give Heyman respect for contributing to the Attitude Era. WWE's hardcore division was a response to ECW
vincentrich 6 months ago
I find it funny that he bashes them but when they offer him a job, he jumps with them very quickly (though I wont complain he's done good in TNA)
TheWill1225 1 year ago
Russo was a magazine editor, not a writer.
GhostDistortion 1 year ago
Bruce Pritchard is now working for TNA now
McMagpie96 1 year ago
Sounds like brother love is a bit bitter. Well none of his bitching about TNA is gonna change the fact that he doesn't have a job any more. have fun in the unemployment line you piece of shit.
ARealHulkamaniac 1 year ago
@ARealHulkamaniac this coming from a tna mark who probably lives off welfare
charismatic9904 1 year ago
@charismatic9904 Sorry douche bag, I have a job and a house. Your probably some little fucking punk living in your mother's basement.
ARealHulkamaniac 1 year ago
@ARealHulkamaniac awww typical tna mark answer. does tna give you morons a book of comebacks? b/c u all say the same tired lines. try something creative. oh wait tna fans just like tna dont know what that is.
charismatic9904 1 year ago
@ARealHulkamaniac You completely right man. The funny things is, is that he is now working for TNA lmfao!!
2004852 1 year ago
If Vince Russo was so great (as a few actually claim), then how come he couldn't recreate that success in WCW in 2000? Or in TNA right now? WCW lost, what, $62 million in 2000?
LockardKevin 1 year ago
@LockardKevin because in WWF he had people like Vince saying what he could do creativly but in WCW there was nobody saying "you cant do that or that" so he just did just whent loose and we got pinata matches and JR impersinations
RyanFromTexas64 1 year ago
@RyanFromTexas64 I know, but that just proves that Russo doesn't deserve the majority of the credit for the Attitude Era's success, McMahon does.
LockardKevin 1 year ago
@LockardKevin He was only there for three months & raised the ratings two entire points, before being sent home. Also, the financial problems were brought about by Bischoff giving guys such huge contracts. Russo was forced to rewrite every show before going on the air because TNT/TBS Standards & Practices would overrule any attempts at being as edgy as their main competitor. So it watered down his writing & his overall vision.
BlackArmyTV 1 year ago
I hope Pitchard is not a "yes man"....lord TNA needs some input
like this
schlong19 1 year ago
All the shit that Bruce Pritchard said here, and now he has to eat it by working for TNA.
OtorresFitness 1 year ago
And now he is working for TNA. Like Flair saying What is TNA? And then he works for them. Always makes me laugh
CapTashman 1 year ago
And now he's working in TNA. Hmm?
Jose1382 1 year ago
All the Pritchard brothers are low life deuche bags.
Fat, talentless trash.
ChicagoFusion 1 year ago
I remember how Bruce Prichard treated us in Memphis. What a piece of shit he was in my opinion, which means about as much as his now in the wrestling business. Drink that down Brother Hate! He once told R.Truth "you're a black man in a white man's world". Roaddog made him apologize!
Look at him mark out now. Pathetic.
TheJasonSensation 1 year ago
DIXIE CARTER runs things.
Quntumking 1 year ago
Well I agree with him......
EdmondSwitch 1 year ago
This guy makes me sick. I hope he gets raped by a bunch of gorillas.
Koexistence13 1 year ago
I think Bruce Prichard is way out of line knocking Jay Lethal. Especially when his gimmick was imitating a corny red-faced southern preacher. Lethal is one of the most promising up-and-coming talents in pro wrestling today. It's not Lethal's fault that shitty booking has saddled him with shitty pointless gimmicks. However, for what it's worth, they have recently put the X Division Title on him.
TheDoubleturn 1 year ago 22
dixie would be good for a real houswives show not wrestling. shes too nice
carl0frmdavalley 1 year ago
russo in a shoot said austin was paranoid and more difficult to present scripts to and rightfully so as he came from backstabbin WCW. when russo presented the beer truck idea austin said why not just drive the pickup truck as he thought they might make austin look bas as he was too powerful for mcmahon
whereas the rock always did everything on scripts and was easy going & made it work. this pritchard is just biased & jelous as russo was promoted while he was demoted
prototype00000 1 year ago 3
@prototype00000 I don't understand the too powerful for Mcmahon part. He thought driving a beer truck would make him look too powerful for Mcmahon?
hereonearthme 1 year ago
@hereonearthme
austin was paranoid that mcmahon thought austin was too powerful for a wrestler. as austin was number 1 he has power in the fact he can say who he jobs to or works with (e.g. austin refused to work with jeff jarrett as they had beef) among money issues. austin could basically say NO to mcmahon, so he thought mcmahon got russo to try make austin look bad on tv with the beer truck to set an example of whos boss and whos made who. turns out russo was always tryin to help austin
prototype00000 1 year ago
@prototype00000 Wow. It really makes no sense to me how a beer truck would look weak yet a pick up truck wouldn't!
hereonearthme 1 year ago
@hereonearthme
exactly which is why russo said in the interview austin was more difficult to work with due to paranoia, he was always second guessing everything and said it was like a tug of war with him, unlke the rock who was always confident and ready to make everything work
prototype00000 1 year ago
@prototype00000 Interesting. Thanks a lot man.
hereonearthme 1 year ago
Agree and Disagree. I cant stand when people say Vince Russo wasnt the reason for the Attitude success. Vince created Mantuar, the Goon, and Dink. Vince also created Stone Cold, The Rock, and anyone else from the era. What happened to WWE to go from the Goon to the Rock? Simple. Vince Russo. Cornette and Pritchard were around for the Mantaur garbage. When Russo came in? That all changed. Maybe it was just a "magical" coincidence, and everyone woke up and had answers they didnt have before.
TheWrestlingSoup 1 year ago
@TheWrestlingSoup Good point...I too think that a lot of people are quick to dismiss Russo's role during the WWE Attitude Era. I have to say though, there's a lot of similarities between WCW Nitro when Russo was in charge and TNA iMPACT with Russo as head of Creative Team. I think he can be a good contributor and has some good ideas, but it's clear when he's in charge his television product kind of sucks.
TVTraX 1 year ago 9
@TVTraX Absolutely agree. Theres a reason that Russo seems to fail on his own, and looking back at WWE there was definitely a chemistry between Russo and McMahon that created great wrestling angles. Its honestly a shame that McMahon is such a corporate machine, and Russo is such a pansy, otherwise who knows. We might still have great wrestling angles on TV.
TheWrestlingSoup 1 year ago
@TheWrestlingSoup
Then again there was another Vince to say "that is a good idea" and "let's do that".
AmericanNohbuddy 1 year ago
@AmericanNohbuddy I agree. But basically this interview implies that Russo didnt contribute the majority to the Attitude era. I believe that is false. I believe that Russo was muzzled on alot of ideas through McMahon, but to say that most of the reason that era existed wasnt because of Russo? Thats just being blind. Like I said. Cornette was there before Russo arrived. So was Hayes and others. Why didnt it change for the better before Russo was pulled in?
TheWrestlingSoup 1 year ago
@TheWrestlingSoup Bruce Prichard spoke on the Monday Night Mayhem radio show about Vince Russo taking credit for the creation of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin:
"There’s a guy over in TNA (Vince Russo) who has taken credit over the years for the creation of ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin, The Rock, and people like that. At the end of the day, the guy who deserves credit for ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin is Steve Austin.
JosephDanielsTC7R 1 year ago
@JosephDanielsTC7R He went out and delivered. Steve went out, and he was ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin 24/7. When Russo used to write up all these scripts, Steve would look at it, crumple it up, and throw it in the trash. Steve would go out, and he had a rapport with Vince McMahon, and he used to come to me and say ‘I wanna say this.’ I said ‘Hey man, that’s life, so if you wanna take the ass-chewing when you get back, do what you think is right.’
JosephDanielsTC7R 1 year ago
@JosephDanielsTC7R After a while, Steve gambled, and went out, and he did what he thought was right. He had an ear, and he knew what was working, and what they were buying and weren’t buying, and at the end of the day, it may not have been the ideal creative situation that was created, but Steve made it his own, and made it bigger than anything that’s ever been done in the business. Without talent, you can have the greatest creative in the world -- if they can’t deliver, it doesn’t matter."
JosephDanielsTC7R 1 year ago
@JosephDanielsTC7R
pritchard is lying. i have a russo shoot pro wrestling insiders and russo clearly says it was all stone cold. russo says all he did was put austin and rock in those situations but it was all them that made it work. bruce pritchard is a red faced liar
prototype00000 1 year ago
@prototype00000 haha literally. Nice pun.
TheWrestlingSoup 1 year ago
@TheWrestlingSoup
well said...these guys had no clue and it was when mcmahon read russos wwf magazine article and called russo up in front of all his booking team. russo thought he was in trouble and mcmahon slammed the magazine down and said this is what we need. russo said the looks he got from the rest of the team was ice cold. they were jelous that russo went straight to the top and to this day spread bullcrap about russo.
all these guys knew was tl hopper and the goon
prototype00000 1 year ago
@TheWrestlingSoup
Vince Russo also made Mark Henry entertaining with the sexual chocolate gimmick.
sakonhagakure 1 year ago
@TheWrestlingSoup Russo was nowhere near stone cold, had nothing to do with the build of the rock, and actu