Vince Russo Reveals the Original Planned Conclusion to the Test and Stephanie McMahon Romance

– During are recent edition of Vince Russo’s Brand, former WWE booker Vince Russo discussed the 1999 angle where Test had a romance with Stephanie McMahon and what the original plan was to conclude the storyline. Originally, Test feuded with Shane McMahon and proposed marriage to Stephanie McMahon. However, after Stephanie McMahon recovered from her amnesia and had a wedding with Test on TV, it was revealed that Triple H took Stephanie McMahon to Las Vegas for a shotgun wedding while she was passed out after her bachelorette party. Below are some highlights from the podcast (transcript via WrestlingInc.com). Stephanie McMahon then turned heel and revealed she married Triple H to get revenge on her father, Vince McMahon.

Vince Russo on how the angle with Test and Stephanie McMahon was supposed to end: “Ed [Ferrara] and I knew all along where we were going with the Stephanie-Test storyline. It was never in question. Our plan all along was for Test to stand her up at the altar. That was the plan, and we were going to make Test a heel. And Test was gonna have an issue with Shane, and the whole family. That’s where we were going. We never wrote a story [that] we didn’t know where the thing was going.”

Russo on how the angle was changed to Stephanie getting amnesia: “They did the gimmick thing with the [British] Bulldog and what it looks like is like it kinda ricocheted off of something and hit Stephanie. That was probably an accident, and [WWE] probably used that as some kind of amnesia angle once Ed and I left, [until] they figured out what they wanted to do.”