NEWS: Eric Bischoff Slams 'Fragile' Vince Russo, "He's Not a Writer!"

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NEWS: On the latest episode of 83 Weeks, Eric Bischoff sat down with co-host Conrad Thompson and slammed former WWE/WCW writer Vince Russo,

"He didn't get it....his brain just didn't work that way. He didn't understand what a three act structure was. He called himself a writer because he wrote some silly shit in the WWE magazine and somehow that in his mind made him a writer and he did work obviously in creative with Vince McMahon and he worked with other people; but, still not a writer in my estimation. He didn't understand the very basic. He didn't understand what a storyline arc was. He didn't know what I meant when I talked about a three act structure. It was something I had to deal with even in TNA when we worked together - his brain didn't work that way....The storylines and the things Russo wanted to do made absolutely no freaking sense and it was very apparent that his anti-Hogan sentiment was driving consciously or subconsciously so much of what he was trying to sell and I would cry bullshit and it was driving him nuts and anybody that has ever worked with Russ for any length of time knows he's fragile. When you start challenging him - when you start questioning him and making him rationalize, he cracks like an egg, like a quail egg. He just cracks and then he had to go home. I don't want to go home. I don't want to call it a breakdown; but, it was probably close because of the pressure and because I was challenging the silly shit he wanted to do...It wasn't good for Hulk. It wasn't good for WCW.... The running joke between Terry and I was just let him talk for twenty minutes because he'll sell his ass off and then say, 'Ok Vince where do we go next week?' And that would be the end of the conversation because he had nothing. He went home because he was having a breakdown, or whatever....he couldn't cope anymore."

Bischoff and co-host Conrad Thompson talk much more on the two plus hour Bash at the Beach 2000 episode, including the infamous finger-poke of doom between Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett. Readers interested in listening to 83 Weeks in its entirety may do so HERE.

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