Vince Russo Disputes Details Of Hulk Hogan Recording About WCW Bash At The Beach

As previously reported, a recently released audio recording of Hulk Hogan from 2000 just after the controversial WCW Bash at the Beach show cast a new light on the circumstances surrounding Hogan’s final WCW appearance. In response, Vince Russo spoke with The Wrestling Outlaws to provide his own perspective of the events, contradicting certain aspects reported in the tape (via Wrestling Inc). Russo stated that despite what Hogan’s comments indicated, he held no hard feelings about the wrestler implementing his creative control contract clause, but rather felt the last-minute timing was an unprofessional move. You can find a highlight from Russo and watch the interview clip below.

On what actually upset Russo about the situation at the show: “I was told by John Laurinaitis that Hogan agreed to the script. We checked everything out with him first… so I’m walking into that building thinking we’re all fine [and] he signed up off on it… Then literally two hours before the show, I’m getting out of nowhere, ‘This doesn’t work for me brother.’ If I had any beef, it was just the fact that [Hogan] agreed to it on Friday and here we are on Sunday and you’re changing your mind two hours before the show. To me, that was the unprofessional part of it, but I never got hot at the guy for playing his creative control card when WCW gave it to him.”