During a recent Q&A session on the “Something To Wrestle With” podcast, JBL addressed a listener’s question regarding Vince McMahon’s potential feelings towards Vince Russo. Specifically, the listener inquired if JBL believed McMahon held a grudge.
JBL responded, “I don’t know. Vince never said anything to that. I don’t think he would even if he had them. I don’t know the feelings of Vince when Vince Russo left.”
To illustrate his point, JBL recounted an incident involving his former WWE Network show, “Legends with JBL.” “I do know when I did a Legends with JBL and I had Eric Bischoff on, he said something about Vince Russo as far as WCW. Russo sent me a text. I sent a very nice text back. He said,’ I want to come on and refute what Bischoff said about me.’ I said, ‘Okay’ so I asked Vince McMahon. I said, ‘Hey, here’s what happened on Legends with JBL. I had Bischoff on. I thought it was a very good show, but he said this about Vince Russo. Russo has sent me this text. You can read it if you want to.’ He said, ‘No, I don’t want to. Give me a summary of what it is.’ I gave him a summary. I said, ‘Would you want to do a show with Vince Russo?’ I’ll be happy to interview him.’ Vince said, ‘Nope. Not giving him any press whatsoever. Nope. Not doing it’, and that was it.”
JBL concluded by expressing his uncertainty about McMahon’s motivations: “So I don’t know if Vince had any animosity towards him or this guy was out there saying anything negative about our product and I don’t want to give him press as far as prestige as far as putting him on a WWE show. I don’t know what Vince’s motive was behind saying unequivocally, ‘No, this is not going to happen.’ So I don’t know what Vince was thinking.” In short, JBL conveyed that while McMahon definitively rejected the idea of Russo appearing on WWE programming, he remained unsure of the exact reasons behind that decision.
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