Basically there had been tension going back to our first shows with Vince Russo, but it sort of just lingered in the background. Then right before the EPO Jim called my bragging that someone was going to accept money to handle Russo, some mark in Evansville IN. We tell Russo because it's not cool to pay someone to kill/beat up a man over the writing of a TV show and told him to get an EPO just to leave a paper trail just in case something goes down. At the same time Jimmy alluded to this on the JCE so it was out there. Russo goes before a judge with transcripts of everything Jim has said about him over 18 years, recordings of voicemails that Jim denies leaving(I've heard them, they exist) and is granted the EPO and encouraged by the judge to seek further charges which Vince declined to do out of respect for my father. We address this on the Bolin Alley with Jims cohost Brian Last who argued his case like a middle schooler saying "Vince is a pussy" against Maya who was giving real insight, so we quit the show with Last and never heard from Jim again
[in response to someone saying this isn't in Jim's character]
I'm sorry, do you know jimmy? Have you ever been on the phone with him while he tore apart his office after learning Vince profited on the sale of his house? What about him threatening to shoot Lesnars knees out? Beating his shit box ford to a heap with a ball bat because of a missed time cue in a match in front of 80 people? Slapping Santino for not being scared of the boogie man? Belittling Linda Miles for having a bad match after having 2 before that? The man is nuts.
Not personal, just pointing out that you have no experience with Jim or his instability. You know what you see on twitter and find entertaining while my family has been apologizing for his behavior for decades. Jim is certainly capable of paying someone to do that, whether or not he was at that point, only Jim knows that, but we were all concerned at the time of the call.
