Drew McIntyre won the WWE Championship for the first time in 2020 despite failing to win any of his eight pay-per-view matches in 2019. Last week, Big E became the latest first-time WWE Champion when he successfully cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on Bobby Lashley.
Russo, WWE’s head writer in the late 1990s, often speaks on Sportskeeda Wrestling’s Writing With Russo about WWE’s 50-50 booking logic. In the latest episode, he told Dr. Chris Featherstone that building momentum is the key to creating believable world champions.
Watch the video above to hear more of Vince Russo’s thoughts on WWE World Champions who have a history of losing matches. He also explained the difference between WWE’s recent title winners and the likes of Bruno Sammartino and Hulk Hogan.
Vince Russo thinks WWE can learn from boxing
George Foreman, Joe Frazier, and Muhammad Ali are considered to be three of the greatest boxers of all time. All three men won at least 85 percent of their career fights.
Moving forward, Vince Russo thinks WWE needs more superstars who can build up high win ratios en route to becoming World Champions:
According to Cagematch.net, WWE Champion Big E has won 57.1% of his televised WWE matches. By contrast, Universal Champion Roman Reigns has won 69.2% of his matches on WWE television.
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