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#2 Vince Russo recently revealed that WWE offered him a major role in creative in 2002

Vince Russo

Vince Russo recently spoke to SK Wrestling’s Lee Walker and during the interview, opened up about meeting Vince McMahon in secret in 2002 about a return to WWE’s creative team. Russo said Vince McMahon offered him a role overseeing WWE RAW and SmackDown:

"Let me explain exactly what happened. I was meeting with Vince [McMahon] in secret, nobody knew. Stephanie was in charge of creative, Stephanie didn't know I was meeting with Vince. This was around 2002 when the product really started to nose dive. I laid out all my creative to Vince and he loved it. He loved it. Vince offered me a contract and we agreed on money and everything else, the deal was done. So now I say to Vince, how are you going to break this news to the rest of the company. What are you going to do Vince? Vince says to me, 'I'm not going to break the news to them'. There was a PPV that weekend and Vince said 'you're just going to show up at the PPV and I'm going to let everybody know that you are now overseeing RAW and SmackDown'."

However, in the end, Russo’s return to the WWE creative team fell through. According to Russo, he was buried in front of Vince McMahon after he left a creative meeting. Vince McMahon ended up offering Russo a role as a consultant instead. Russo turned down the offer and signed with TNA Wrestling as head writer instead.