Russo departure
By Scott Keith on 6 April 2018
In hindsight, wasn't Russo's WWF departure in 1999 (remember, even Prichard admitted it: Vince & co were PANICKING) the best thing that could happen to them? Russo's stories and angles at that point were usually piss-poor, shock-value-driven to the max, and just swerve-to-swerve-everyone logicfree. After the influx of great talent in late 99/early 00 (Jericho, Angle, Tazz, Radicalz), the booking/stories made more sense, were less crash-TV, and more enjoyable in general imo. What you say?
Even without hindsight a lot of people said it was a great thing that it happened. I wish it would have happened before Smackdown launched. We probably wouldn't have had the Blue Blazer storyline either.