Russo is joined on today’s show by former ECW, WCW and WWE Superstar, Big Vito.

Russo mentions that he has several new year resolutions this year, and he wants to share them with his audience.

First and foremost, he admits that he needs to lose some weight. He says he’s lost weight before when he put his mind to it, so he just needs to start exercising more and eating healthier and he’s sure he’ll shed some weight again.

Additionally, Russo informs that he doesn’t want to be involved with things he doesn’t enjoy anymore. He has spent years of his life on airplanes and watching wrestling  when he had no interest in doing either. He points out that he’ll be 57 years old this month, and he’s sick of wasting his life doing things he doesn’t enjoy.

His third resolution is to find a way to enjoy WWE’s product in 2018. He watches RAW and Smackdown now and is angered by the fact that he wasted hours of his life watching something that isn’t entertaining, and he doesn’t know why he feels that way. His critics say he’s bitter but that couldn’t be farther from the truth in his opinion, because he has no interest in returning to WWE at this point.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane, Kenny Bolin and Big Vito.

Russo says that WWE reached a new low point this past Monday with that sad episode of RAW. The shows have been terrible for months but this episode of RAW was absolutely terrible. Early in the show we got the announcement that Roman Reigns would be defending his Intercontinental Title against Elias, and Reigns’ dialogue in this promo was just brutal. Russo says that he actually likes Reigns a lot, but the dialogue is clearly written by 3rd graders.

He also has no idea why The Miztourage is linked to Elias now all of a sudden just because The Miz ran off to make a movie. Russo says that WWE is clearly just throwing things at the wall week after week, and whatever happens happens.

Lane says that he feels sorry for the people who paid their hard-earned money to go see this show. RAW doesn’t have another PPV until the Royal Rumble and they’re clearly not building towards anything right now. WWE simply took a week off and put a house show on television this week, and it’s a shame because those fans who showed up to the arena were ripped off.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by Big Vito.

Russo informs that his first love was working on radio, and he’s been constantly looking to return to the radio booth for 26 years. He mentions that editing the WWE Magazine and writing professional wrestling kind of just fell in his lap and he never had a passion to do either of those things. For that reason he simply treated those things as a job and he felt bad about that for many years because everyone around him had a real passion for the wrestling business.

He says that having to wake up in the morning and go to work at a job that you hate has to be the worst thing in life. Vito agrees and mentions that he’s been in that situation in the past. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and get through the tough times in order to get to the spot you want to be in life.

Russo informs that he has started hosting a local radio show in Colorado, and he had Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler on the show as his first guest this past week. They discussed Andy Kaufman’s involvement in Memphis Wrestling and the new Netflix documentary, ‘Jim & Andy’. Russo points out that Kaufman and Lawler were 30 years ahead of their time in the sense that they incorporated a mainstream celebrity into a wrestling angle.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by former WWE Superstar Big Vito.

Russo says that he didn’t watch the Mayweather/McGregor match over the weekend because there’s no way he was going to spend $100 on a boxing PPV. What he doesn’t understand about the outcome is that a lot of people were predicting this exact thing to happen. He points out that all the parties involved would benefit from rigging this fight and he doesn’t rule out the thought that this might have been a work.

Vito disagrees and says these guys were trying to hurt each other in the ring. This was a legitimate boxing match that turned out better than most people anticipated. He gives credit to McGregor who transitioned into an entirely new sport in order to make this fight happen.

Russo talks about the recent backstage heat on Superstars such as Enzo Amore and Baron Corbin. What he can’t understand about both of these situations is the fact that WWE is punishing them weekly on WWE programming, which in turn hurts their own product and potentially costs them ratings and money. He thinks it would make a lot more sense if WWE would simply fine these guys or deal with the issue internally backstage, instead of intentionally hurting their characters on screen.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by Jeff Lane and Big Vito.

Russo says that one thing really bothered him from RAW this week. Just over seven minutes into the show Brock Lesnar’s role was over, and he was done for the night. Russo can’t understand why WWE  continues  to bring in Lesnar for these rare appearances and only use him for a short period of time at the top of the show. Why couldn’t have Lesnar made an appearance again at the end of the night?

He points out that WWE could have promoted that Lesnar was going to actually have a match on this show, and have him go one on one with The Miz. However, Russo admits that there might be something in Lesnar’s contract that states he’s only able to work a certain amount of matches.

Russo hates how ‘cookie-cutter’ these shows have become. He says it’s the same old formula used week after week now, and he points to the tag team division for proof. Last week Sheamus took on Rollins, and Ambrose faced Cesaro. This week each partner switched opponents and we saw two more matches. Russo thinks this is lazy from WWE, and they could have done something different like a backstage attack.

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