"It was a nightmare" - Vince Russo's shocking allegations against the former WWE champion (Exclusive)

Vince Russo also worked for TNA Wrestling (Image credit: WWE.com and Russo
Vince Russo also worked for TNA Wrestling (Image credit: WWE.com and Russo's X/Twitter)

Vince Russo revealed some shocking allegations against a former WWE champion. The name in question now works for AEW.

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Samoa Joe is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. He has wrestled for every major promotion and won titles everywhere he competed. Joe has never been known for being the most in-shape wrestler, but this hasn't held him back from displaying his athletic prowess. However, he has always had issues with his weight, especially during his time in TNA Wrestling.

Speaking on Sportskeeda Wrestling's Writing with Russo, Vince Russo noted that Samoa Joe's biggest issue was weight management. He recalled how the Samoan Submission Machine would gain 50 pounds between different sets of TV tapings.

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"We were on such a shoestring budget in TNA. Chris, I am not lying to you. There would be times we would do six shows in a day. Okay? Definitely eight shows over two days, definitely. That's eight episodes, right? So we would do the eight shows, we would have the eight shows in the can. By the time we came back to TNA to film again, sometimes it was like six or eight weeks.[...] Bro, we come back and the dude [Samoa Joe] packed on 50 pounds. And so all of a sudden, you've got this run of eight shows where he looks great, and then you've got this run of eight shows where he's fifty pounds overweight."
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Vince Russo added:

"Terry Taylor was talent relations, and Terry was the one that always used to stay on top of him with his weight. But it was constant, bro. When Terry would get on him, the next set of TVs, the weight would be off. Great, okay. We'd shoot six episodes, we come back, he's fifty pounds overweight again. It was a freaking nightmare." [From 01:39 to 02:50]
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Vince Russo highlights one thing he hates about wrestlers

Vince Russo is a well-known figure in professional wrestling. He worked as a writer for WWE and was one of the people responsible for boosting RAW's TV ratings during the Attitude Era.

After leaving the Stamford-based promotion, he went on to work for WCW and TNA Wrestling. During his time with Nashville-based promotion, Russo had some heat with Samoa Joe due to a segment he produced. However, the veteran learned about Joe's disdain for him much later on after he left the promotion.

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Speaking on the same Writing with Russo podcast episode, Vince Russo said that he hates the fact that wrestlers bottle up their issues until much later in life.

"That's the one thing I hate about wrestlers more than anything, Chris. I can't stand this about them. They have a problem with you and you don't find out until you're not working together anymore... You're working with these people every day, they'll never say nothing to you. So you constantly go on in life wondering who you have heat with and who you don't have heat with."

Samoa Joe is set to face Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship at Dynamite: Beach Break. It will be interesting to see if Vince Russo can resolve his differences with Joe in the future.

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