Vince Russo: 'If I Ran AEW I Would Cut Down The Matches'

Published: Mar 25, 2021 by Tempest | Last Updated: Mar 25, 2021 by Tempest

Vince Russo: ‘If I Ran AEW I Would Cut Down The Matches’

It has always been apparent that Vince Russo is more interesting in segments than matches. This has been seen during his time with both WCW and TNA Wrestling. Now, he wants to see AEW do the same thing.

In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet, Russo talked about what he would do if he ran AEW. In short, he would cut back on the wrestling. Here is the quote, courtesy of Inside The Ropes:

“The first things I would change is cut down the matches. I mean bro there have been studies over the years of the attention span of people. Every year the attention span gets shorter and shorter. The only person that’s going to watch a 10 minute match, 15 minute, 20 minute, maybe even an 8 minute match, are going to be die hard wrestling fans. If you go back and you study the attitude era, you will see one thing, no wrestling match went through a break. Once in a while, there was an exception in the main event, if it was a big main event.

Bro 99% of the time, a match is a part of the segment, no matches made it through the commercial breaks. We were addressing the attention span. For the average casual fan, the minute the bell rings, they want to know 2 things. They want to know who is going over and what’s next? That’s what the casual fan wants to know. If they [AEW] are drawing 750,000 people, and you want to turn that into 3 million, bro you’ve get to masses. And you’re not going to get the masses through wrestling matches.”

Cody Rhodes has already said there is no interest in Vince Russo working for AEW. Just in case you thought that was a possibility.

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