Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

Lane opens today’s show by playing a clip of Dave Meltzer who says he can’t believe that TNA had Okada for a year or two and didn’t push him at all. Meltzer said that will go down as one of the greatest punch lines of all time. Russo says that Samoa Joe actually came up to him during their time working together in TNA, and told him that Okada was very entertaining and TNA needed to take advantage of him.

Another clip of Meltzer presents him saying that Vince McMahon was trying to prove how tough he was by taking that headbutt from Kevin Owens on Smackdown Live last week, but Meltzer feels that at some points McMahon needs to grow up and realize the business is a work. Russo says that Meltzer is the last person who should be telling someone else to grow up.

Russo says that McMahon takes these kinds of shots because of his ego, to prove to himself and others that he can still do these things at age 72. Russo says that McMahon isn’t a mark and he knows that the business is a work, but Meltzer on the other hand is peeing his pants over some indie show.

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Russo is joined on this show by his co-host Jeff Lane and a special guest Francesco Castano.

Lane starts today’s show by playing a clip of Jason Powell, who says that WWE is giving away an awful lot on RAW lately in their main events, and it’s strange that they aren’t saving some of these big matches for football season. Russo says that this is a business, and WWE needs to have the best rating possible every single week. It’s useless to put something off until football season if their ratings are going to go in the toilet for the next 3 months.

Russo mentions that if WWE is planning on having another Superstar Shakeup only five months after the last one, there’s no point in having two brands at all. Their roster is too watered-down to have two brands in the first place and by having Superstar Shakeups every five or six months, WWE is basically admitting as much.

A clip of Dave Meltzer presents him saying that sources have confirmed to him that the Toronto crowd that booed Bayley on RAW last week weren’t necessarily booing the talent, rather they were booing WWE’s recent booking of her. Russo would like to know who told Meltzer this information, because Meltzer’s been writing this dirt sheet for 30 years and Russo hasn’t heard him name a source once.

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