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No, that's not the name of a new TNA PPV, but sort of an explanation of what's happened to Vince Russo in the last few days.
As we wrote yesterday, Vince Russo quit his own website, which left a number of questions about how such a thing could actually happen. Well, Russo posted a 26 minute video on Youtube this morning.
The video starts out with a six minute skit where Russo prepares to be on the phone with his old writing partner "Fast Eddie" (Ed Ferrara) where he claims that the entire run of his website has been a swerve leading to him making $80 off a recent Chyna video and now he's running off with the money.
As silly as that sounds, Russo then tells the "real" story of what's happened to his website. Without going into specifics, citing that his "Jewish lawyer from New York" has told him not to, Russo said that there were issues with his website that he was not made aware of until Wednesday.
Russo then said that on Friday, he attempted to post a story about the WWE Hulk Hogan Appreciation night at Madison Square Garden because of what a big deal it was for Hogan to have a banner hung in MSG....only to find out his password for the site had been changed.
Russo said he then went on Twitter and posted a comment, only to then learn his Twitter password (which had been set up for him) had been changed as well, so not only was he locked out of his own website but his own Twitter account as well.
Russo noted that he had been off the Internet for the entire day (although he knew enough to reference me by name regarding the story I posted on PWInsider yesterday as well as mentioning "James E.", obviously a reference to Jim Cornette who as you might expect, took great glee over the situation on his Twitter account) and had just learned that subscriptions for his site had been renewed. Russo said that he hoped to get to the bottom of the situation and hopefully have subscribers' money returned, since they paid for him and wouldn't be getting him (and to be fair, Russo was the one and only draw of the site and what people were paying for). Hopefully those fans do get their money back.
Russo also said he has a "friend at Twitter" who hoped to get his account returned to him this week. He also said he was able to get his mailing list to reach out to fans and explain his side.
So, Russo was placed on Lockdown from his own website and Twitter, the former of which he never actually owned and the latter of which was changed on him.
Russo's video appeared to make it clear he was at least researching what he could do legally.
Of course, this being Russo, there are always some follow-up questions which beg to be asked. The one that really stuck out to me that was Russo noted that he was locked out of the site (thus unable to post his Hogan story), yet a story was posted and deleted that a new Vince Russo "experience" was about the start, which you can see at this link. So, if Russo was able to post that story (which was yanked) to try and get the word out about his exit, why couldn't he post the Hogan story? Nowhere in the 26 minute video is that explained.
No word yet if this all leads to a website on a pole match...and Vince, since I know you are reading, it was you who once said everything just sounds funnier on a pole in a Kayfabe Commentaries interview. I'm just agreeing with you!
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