5 huge WWE rumours that were proved false

2.Vince McMahon sent Vince Russo to WCW to destroy it

The genius behind the Attitude Era

WWE and WCW were engaged in the scintillating Monday night wars for the better part of the 90s. The nWo angle had put Ted Turner’s company firmly in the driver’s seat and out of desperation, WWE responded by ushering in the Attitude Era which featured edgier storylines.

Vince Russo was the head writer of Raw at the time and naturally people assumed that he was the brains behind WWE’s rise.

But he always had Vince McMahon to screen his ideas and the ambitious Russo got miffed at being kept in the background by McMahon and jumped to WCW in the late nineties.

Russo’s arrival was supposed to reinvigorate the slumping WCW, but Russo introduced cartoonish storylines and weird matches which did nothing to raise the stature of WCW and the company folded within a couple of years.

One rumour that started spreading was that Russo was planted inside WCW by Vince McMahon to introduce really bad storylines in to the company so that it could never catch up with the WWE. That is essentially false, the truth was that Russo was a loose cannon and his ideas were all over the place. With no one to tell him what was good and what was wrong, Russo assumed that all his concepts like the piñata on a pole match were crowd pullers!!

His solo act was so pathetic that the WWE never rehired him even 15 years after his departure from the company.