Just watched episode 3 of Who Killed WCW?. Do not ever try a drinking game where you drink when the word "bro" (okay, sound, since that ain't a word) is uttered; or, you will end up with blood alcohol poisoning!

It's Russo's chance to defend his record and it's pretty much what you would expect: spin, no responsibility for failures, complete ignorance of the point of the show and a complete lack of understanding of storytelling, beyond an individual scene.

He claims that Tony Sciavone pitched David Arquette winning the title. That has never come up before his recent claims of that. No one ever pointed a finger at Tony for that. Tony isn't interviewed for this, so no confirmation or denial from him; but, to use the words of Gorilla Monsoon, "Highly unlikely!"

Even in interviews, he is fixated on ratings, which tanked completely. He clings to the brief bump they got, at the start. A blind monkey could have gotten that bump, as it was just curiosity, fueled by the mistaken belief that since he was a writer for the WWF, he had to be the one responsible for their resurgence. Boy did Russo clear that misconception up quickly. There is some back and forth and then Brad Siegal is asked about it and he said they "went up a little, but it didn't affect the advertising money." That's the part Russo never got; it's a business and business is about making money. He seemed to think that a slight improvement to the ratings meant he was doing his job. If they can't sell more advertising, based on those ratings, then he accomplished nothing. The tv didn't translate to an increase in ticket sales and PPV buys went down. The point of wrestling tv was to sell that product. It didn't make people want to go out and buy their merchandise. They weren't getting paid huge amounts for their show........Warner and Turner had pretty much gifted the show to TNT, so advertising, live events, merch sales and PPV buys were their main revenue streams. Those got worse, the more Russo's stuff bombed with the audience.

He brings up the "casual audience," which gets the response from Konnan, who said "Why would the casual audience want to see Judy Bagwell on a pole?"

He tries to claim that Bischoff had Hogan's ear and that's why Hogan wouldn't trust him. He even claims that if Bischoff had been gone, then he and Hogan would have gotten along fine. Not buying that one.

Basically, Russo is not responsible for any of the failures and when challenged with putting himself all over the tv, he claims he was better than 80% of the locker room and his job was to write a tv show. So, if you are hired to write Star Trek and you put out episodes of I Love Lucy, with yourself in place of Lucille Ball, you've done your job?

He claims that Kevin Sullivan & JJ Dillon conspired behind his back to get creative away from him and that he went home, refusing to work on a committee, not that they relieved him of his duties and suspended him. No one backs up Russo's claims, though no one outright calls BS on that. Bischoff is brought back to oversee Russo, according to him, Russo claims otherwise but he was determined to do his job. So, he goes from claiming he had full creative control, contractually to agreeing to work with Bischoff, because he wanted and not because he was compelled to do so.

He tries to claim he championed Booker T and the racial discrimination lawsuit brought by Sony Ono and other WCW wrestlers is not brought up, at all, when most insider accounts said that the lawsuit led to them deciding to put the belt on Booker T, as a deflection of the racial issue.

Russo makes the claim that Benoit, Guerrero, Saturn and Malenko left because he went home....not because Sullivan was put in charge. His presence had nothing to do with it. Sullivan's had everything to do with it, as they went to Bill Busch and said they couldn't work with him, specifically, especially Chris. Russo was never in the picture.

He claims Goldberg deliberately tried to hurt him, when he speared him through a gimmicked part of a cage. To which Goldberg responded that if he wanted to hurt Russo, he wouldn't be breathing. Or he would have had a career-ending concussion, Bill. Russo is full of it; but, Goldberg still comes across as an A-hole.

Nash is so baked in this episode that he should have a recipe card attached to his forehead. They show him the footage of them trying to drop blood on him, from above, and missing. he claims there were multiple tries and it was the same old story. I had long given up, by that point, so all I have seen is the clip they showed. Did they actually try it several times live or is Nash in THC land? Well, he is, but I mean his memory.

Next episode is about the end; so I assume talk of Bischoff trying to put together a group to buy it, which dies when Jamie Kelner announces the cancellation of the tv show and Vince getting it for peanut shells (didn't even cost him the peanuts).

The most ridiculous thing said is by Russo, where he says he hates wrestling, yet he keeps trying to beg jobs in it or related to it. Guess that degree in journalism hasn't helped much. Or managing a video store.