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Zeus posted...

Well, ONE half of the conversation is interesting and Russo's responses provide Jim with great ammo. His long response to Russo's "apology" was a pretty great promo.

That was admittedly awesome, yes.

His issues with Russo tend to border on the side of the business he tends to be the most out of touch about, though. At least a few times recently (mostly relating to the JBL problem) he's said things like "If you have issues with someone, just go beat the shit out of them" because that's how things used to be handled in the old days, without really thinking about just how litigious society has become since then. If he handled every problem the way he used to, he'd be in jail right now (or at the very least, utterly poor from all the lawsuits). You'd think getting fired for slapping Santino would have at least clued him in to the shift in the winds, but he seems to have missed the point.

Of course, in JBL's case he's also missing the point that JBL is pretty much Vince's golden boy, so there's also the distinct feeling of "If I fuck with this guy I'm going to lose my job, and if I lose my job when the WWE is basically the only major wrestling organization in most of the world, I'm basically losing my entire career", which was never really the case when Cornette was active in the business. And he also seems to miss the irony inherent in Stephanie pushing an anti-bullying charity while their entire locker room culture is basically based on a bunch of would-be alpha males bullying each other into a strict hierarchy.

When it comes to talking about old school wrestling or telling stories about stuff that happened he's probably one of the best guys out there, though. Especially because he doesn't really care about what bridges he might be burning, so he doesn't really filter or fudge the details of the stories (or care about who he might make look bad).


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