Former WCW, WWE, and TNA booker Vince Russo recently posted a new blog weighing in on the debate of the Hulk Hogan situation after his firing from WWE over a racist rant. You can read Russo’s comments on the situation below:
In my imperfection, God also made it clear to me the importance of Forgiveness. Being that we are all sinners, we are all going to fall short of the mark–every, last one of us—and it is at those times that He made it clear to us that we are simply to love our brothers. Uplift them when they are down. Have compassion in our hearts because that same compassion is what we are going to need as human beings—when it’s our turn to fall short of our expectations.
For 15 years, people continue to go back in time to a moment in wrestling when as a wrestling character I cut a wrestling promo in a wrestling ring about another wrestling character. On that night I was doing my job as an entertainer to simply entertain the audience who was engaged. The fact is that every time I was ever in front of a camera, that’s all I was doing, pretending to be somebody I wasn’t to simply play a role in the play. Personally, in my heart, I never had any distain for Terry Bollea. Due to the circumstances was I a bit angry at that moment in time—yes, I was, but as a human being I never either disliked, or hated Terry Bollea as a human being. At the end of the day he was trying to do what was right for him, as I was trying to do the same for me. The problem was that we BOTH made the mistake of putting ourselves before the other.
Thankfully, later on, I had the opportunity to work with Terry once again, and during that time, what I saw was the heart of a child, who was still loving and enjoying every second he was around the business he loved. That is no lie. But, the truth is, even somebody as polished as him, could wear his emotions on his sleeve at times, making the error of speaking strictly from raw feeling, rather than to think about the words that came out of his mouth. . . words he might regret later. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been guilty of that. The truth is . . . we’ve all been guilty of that. Why? Because it goes back to that sin gene which we inherited and which we all needed somebody else to sacrifice themselves for–in order to cover us.
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