Terry
Taylor On ...
Vince
Russo:
"I think Vince
is a creative genius. I think Vince Russo is organized. Most creative,
smart people aren’t organized. They’re scatterbrained. They have the big
picture, but they don’t know how to get things done. Vinny knew how to
get characters over. He knew how to make people care about what was going
on. He knew how to tell a story. He just wasn’t schooled in the wrestling
aspect of all of what I just said. It’s like I’ve said to other people,
‘I can’t go from being a wrestling guy to selling shoes or vice versa.’
It’s very hard to understand this business."
What
it was like dealing with Kevin Nash:
"I don’t know
anybody, even on championship teams, who loves every decision a coach makes.
Michael Jordan to Phil Jackson to anybody else. Being a writer, producer,
is like being a coach and there’s only one ball and there’s five or six
or 11 guys and they all want it. That’s the push in wrestling. So you’re
not going to make everybody happy. When you’re a top guy, you want the
ball. Nash wanted to be featured. That’s the deal when you’re on top and
you have the work ethic. You want to be the guy that people say, ‘Oh, God,
what are we going to do?’ And he’s like, ‘Let me do it. I know what to
do and I can do it.’"
Why
Ted Turner was good for WCW:
"Ted Turner
liked wrestling. When Ted Turner was in charge of TBS, Turner Entertainment,
everything was good. Employees were happy. Money was being made, not on
every level, but he had a commitment to baseball and basketball and also
to wrestling. He was known for being loyal to those things. Then the Braves
got good, the Hawks got good and then the wrestling got good. Everything
goes in cycles. We started a down time, Ted got out of power and boy, things
went to hell in a handbasket in a hurry."
Pushing
the Natural Born Thrillers:
"People will
say, ‘Those guys weren’t ready.’ Well, where are they going to get ready?
There’s no farm system. These kids were thrown into a situation where they
were in a no-win. They went out there and they looked great and they worked
hard and they worked with some of the veterans and some of the veterans
did the right thing and helped them. Some of the veterans went out there
and made them look bad. It’s tough."
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