Vince Russo Disclosed that Ed Ferrara was a consultant for the USA Network. Vince Russo and Dr. Chris Featherstone discussed the state of WWE RAW with this week’s version of Legion of RAW.
During the series, Chris requested Vince Russo if the USA Network provides any kind of feedback regarding the show. While answering the question, Vince Russo showed something a lot of fans may be unaware of.
Ed Ferrara hired as a consultant for WWE RAW by USA Network
Vince Russo revealed he and Ed Ferrara were done with their conduct in WCW, the USA Network hired Ed Ferrara as a consultant with no Vince McMahon’s knowledge. According to Russo, Ferrara’s job was to Provide a rundown of WWE RAW and occasionally pitch ideas for the series to the USA Network:
Chris, not a lot of individuals know this. I will share this with you personally. And if Vince understood this, he’d have been ballistic. Bro, do you understand, when Ed [Ferrare] and that I left WWE and like when our WCW run was finished, bro would you understand that USA Network compensated Ed as a consultant to watch RAW every week.
So Ed would watch RAW and give them a very well laid out summary of this show and Ed would pitch thoughts. Therefore it would sound like it had been coming out of the USA Network and they understood what they were talking about.
So again, that is the cockiness and that is the egos of the men and women in the wrestling business. They are taking a look at the USA Network and they are like, ‘Oh, who did you beat? You’re going to tell us how to write a wrestling show?’.
Bro, I will tell you at this time, an eight-year-old can tell them just how to create a wrestling show right now. So yeah, the Network does… they offer notes, they provide suggestions. But you know, again inside the bubble that the network is laughed at -‘ what do they really understand? What have they booked?’ – and they still continue to put on this stuff.
