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Vince Russo - Academy Plaza Dublin - Monday Sept 28th

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  • #32
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,019 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Stereomaniac wrote: »
    I don't think any of us were complaining at the time!

    I mean it wasnt all down to him though.


  • #33
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,019 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    jaykhunter wrote: »
    Kevin Nash just went into the hall of fame!!

    Theres plenty of bad eggs in the HoF but I would rather not see another one go in.


  • #34
    Mick Murdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Mick Murdock


    Find him very tedious and he never takes responsibility for any mistakes he's made - very much like his arch nemesis Cornette but I think he's made a scapegoat for a lot of other peoples mistakes too. He played a significant part in writing the shows at it's most successful time ever. Both he and Ferrera probably deserve recognition for that imo.


  • #35
    braniganl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭braniganl


    Will there be any tie and blazer badge combination packs available?


  • #36
    RNRPROMOTIONS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭RNRPROMOTIONS


    Hey Guys Vince Russo has posted a video for Irish Fans that's on the RNRpromo Facebook page (still can't post links just yet as I'm waiting to hear back about verification).

    Tickets still available from The Academy Plaza Hotel & Wrestlingmania Stephens Green!


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  • #37
    Alexis Sanchez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭Alexis Sanchez


    RNRPROMOTIONS wrote: »
    Hey Guys Vince Russo has posted a video for Irish Fans that's on the RNRpromo Facebook page (still can't post links just yet as I'm waiting to hear back about verification).

    Tickets still available from The Academy Plaza Hotel & Wrestlingmania Stephens Green!

    You won't be allowed to post links until you reach 50 posts and have been a member for 10 days or something.

    RNR Promotions


  • #38
    RNRPROMOTIONS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭RNRPROMOTIONS


    Alexis Sanchez wrote: »
    You won't be allowed to post links until you reach 50 posts and have been a member for 10 days or something.


    Thanks Alexis! I know I need to up my posts I just don't want to spam the place either or post random posts to get the count up!


  • #39
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 26,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    RNRPROMOTIONS wrote: »
    Thanks Alexis! I know I need to up my posts I just don't want to spam the place either or post random posts to get the count up!

    The wrestling forum is full of debate and good conversation, try out the other threads outside of this one and you'll find your post count flying up if you get involved more.


  • #40
    but1er
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭but1er


    How's this selling??

    Can't decide to go or not!!


  • #41
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    I mean it wasnt all down to him though.
    It wasn't all down to him, of course not. But I don't think people can vilify him to the extent they have in some places and not acknowledge all the things he did.


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  • #42
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,019 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Stereomaniac wrote: »
    It wasn't all down to him, of course not. But I don't think people can vilify him to the extent they have in some places and not acknowledge all the things he did.

    He ruined TNA in 2006...... for that I shall never forgive him


  • #43
    RNRPROMOTIONS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭RNRPROMOTIONS


    @Loughc will do!!

    @but1er sales are going well! I'm 100% going to do another one for November, hoping to announce who at the show on Monday but if not in the next week or so!

    Vince gets in in the morning so will post when he arrives! Hope all you guys can make it


  • #44
    RNRPROMOTIONS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭RNRPROMOTIONS


    Vince Russo has arrived in Dublin! Pictures are on our Facebook page but he's all set for the show tonight!! Doors are at 8pm with the show starting around 8.15pm! There will be a few tickets available on the door tonight for people who haven't prebooked!


  • #45
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    He ruined TNA in 2006...... for that I shall never forgive him
    I wasn't watching at that stage but I believe he did do a lot of damage. I guess he spent years trying to recreate what he did previously, a trap many fall into really.


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    RNRPROMOTIONS wrote: »
    Vince Russo has arrived in Dublin! Pictures are on our Facebook page but he's all set for the show tonight!! Doors are at 8pm with the show starting around 8.15pm! There will be a few tickets available on the door tonight for people who haven't prebooked!

    Is there anyway I could request one be held for me? I finish work at 7pm instead of my expected 8pm and Would love to go.


  • #47
    RNRPROMOTIONS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭RNRPROMOTIONS


    Omackeral wrote: »
    RNRPROMOTIONS wrote: »
    Vince Russo has arrived in Dublin! Pictures are on our Facebook page but he's all set for the show tonight!! Doors are at 8pm with the show starting around 8.15pm! There will be a few tickets available on the door tonight for people who haven't prebooked!

    Is there anyway I could request one be held for me? I finish work at 7pm instead of my expected 8pm and Would love to go.

    Of course buddy no problem!! It'll be under your username on the door!


  • #48
    theniall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭theniall


    RNRPROMOTIONS wrote: »
    Omackeral wrote: »
    RNRPROMOTIONS wrote: »
    Vince Russo has arrived in Dublin! Pictures are on our Facebook page but he's all set for the show tonight!! Doors are at 8pm with the show starting around 8.15pm! There will be a few tickets available on the door tonight for people who haven't prebooked!

    Of course buddy no problem!! It'll be under your username on the door!

    Please hold two for me at the door if that is possible


  • #49
    RNRPROMOTIONS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭RNRPROMOTIONS


    theniall wrote: »
    RNRPROMOTIONS wrote: »
    Omackeral wrote: »

    Please hold two for me at the door if that is possible

    Done Niall!


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I have actually got hooked up with a ticket from a mate Ray so if you need to let mine go you can :) best of luck for tonight!


  • #51
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,019 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I have actually got hooked up with a ticket from a mate Ray so if you need to let mine go you can :) best of luck for tonight!

    You just didn't want to collect the tickets under your boards alias, admit it!

    ;)


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  • #52
    RNRPROMOTIONS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭RNRPROMOTIONS


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    You just didn't want to collect the tickets under your boards alias, admit it!

    ;)

    😂😂😂

    That's no problem at all!

    See you there


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    You just didn't want to collect the tickets under your boards alias, admit it!

    ;)

    I live the gimmick daily brother!


  • #54
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,040 ✭✭✭✭briany


    People who say that Russo hurt the business are a ways off. It's the promotion's fault for giving the guy a job and it's their fault for giving him carte blanche. I've seen shoots by Russo before and he's always very consistent on his line about the success of the Attitude era. He's never taken sole credit for it, he's always said that it worked because he and Ed Ferrara wrote the show which was then tweaked by VKM and finally given to the immensely talented roster of the time to run with. To follow on from that, Russo's style of writing really fit in with the 'edgy' late 90s. Shock TV was a huge late night draw at the time.

    It's no different to what Bill Watts did to WCW, really. He was a man who was successful in a different era and employed outdated methods which yielded unsatisfactory results. Furthermore, Cornette and Pritchard were pitching awful, horrible cartoon gimmicks in the mid 90s that had become unfashionable in about 1986. Russo's really just another in a long line of bookers from another time.


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It's halftime here. Absolutely awesome so far. Vince has a great presence about him and he's so engaging. Really entertaining and so glad I came along.


  • #56
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    Any major revelations from what's taken place so far? Gutted I missed it. Just finished work.


  • #57
    Easy Pea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭Easy Pea


    Quick note on the Russo event -

    Good event last night. Well done to R&R for getting Russo to the country. Will have to get to more of them.

    There was maybe 40 heads at it - maybe. Would have been good to see a few more to support the cause but a good start at the same time.

    Russo was forthcoming with the details and he seemed genuinely happy to answer the questions - no holds barred which was decent. I'd heard a good bit of the content from various shoots and from the podcast rounds but there was some new stuff too; Bobby Lashley's take on the final days of Benoit backstage, Russo's rebuttal to Bischoffs JBL interview, Foley telling McMahon the rating of the 'this is your life' segment, etc.

    One piece of constructive criticism - ultimately it was a three hour Q&A session - which was good but some kind of format or structure to keep things moving would be ideal. Looking to kayfabe commentaries - they have gimmick segments that are a little bit tacky (name association, ho-bag, etc) but just gives you another path to some insight versus the standard q and a that starts to fade around hour 2.

    Special mention deserved for Eamon Darcy - good to see him again - he was well able for the job. Would like to see him host a more of those sessions. Does that he have a presence in social media?

    All in all grand Monday night! Well done.


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Darcy was a great host and Russo loved him. Called him a living breathing gimmick. The Bobby Lashley/Chris Benoit stuff gave me goosebumps. Basically he said Bobby walked into the trainers room a couple days before the incident and saw Benoit making mental deranged and contorted faces while nobody else was there. He also mentioned that Chris was supposed to be on a 6 month Sabbatical but came back after a few weeks when he was really not in the right frame of mind.

    I felt Vince believed in most of what he was saying. Whether or not it's all true is possibly debatable but I really enjoyed the man's company and not once did he seem fed up. Well worth the entry fee IMO.


  • #59
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Easy Pea wrote: »
    There was maybe 40 heads at it - maybe. Would have been good to see a few more to support the cause but a good start at the same time.

    Just on this...

    I, personally, was waiting to hear how this one went, with the intentions that if it got good reviews, I'd be first in line next time one crops up. There's been a few too many incidents of events being promoted only to be cancelled or whatever. But it sounds like that trepidation was unnecessary, and that it was a good show?


  • #60
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    Delighted to hear that this went well for the organisers and attendees last night. By all accounts people seem to have been impressed by Vince's attitude and general manner. Sadly when I finished working last night I had just worked 70 1/2 hours out of the previous 80 so was barely even able to manage watching Raw, let alone drive up to Dublin then.


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  • #61
    Latte1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭Latte1


    Really good night and it exceeded my expectations. Most of the stories on the night I never heard before despite watching many shoots and listening to podcasts. Hopefully Ray will announce the Nov show soon.


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