Podcast on a Pole is a monthly episodic podcast, looking back at wrestling’s Monday Night War, through the eyes of one’s of its biggest influences, Vince Russo. As the head-writer as both the WWE and WCW, Russo was involved with some of wrestling’s most famous segments, featuring the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, DX, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Goldberg, the NWO and more.

On this episode of Podcast on a Pole, we take an in depth look at July 1997, as Vince Russo verbalises his unforgettable experience of travelling to Canada to witness the building shaking Canadian Stampede PPV— which saw Bret Hart’s Hart Foundation return to Calgary and receive a Prophet-like response, as they overcame a Stone Cold lead Team USA, in front of the entire Hart family and a rabid hometown crowd. The entrances alone are incredible to watch, as the Saddledome fans erupted for the Hart Foundation, for one of the most “sustained reactions” in WWE history. Meanwhile, Team USA— Austin, Shamrock, Goldust, and LOD, were savagely booed. Canadian Stampede would sadly be the last great moment of the legendary Hart family’s WWF legacy. 

July was a crucial month in the USA vs Hart Foundation storyline. For those of you joining us late in the proceedings, the WWE was changing in the spring/summer of 1997.

Stone Cold Steve Austin – who in any other year before would have been a dastardly heel – was becoming the company’s hottest babyface, while Bret Hart – a longtime good guy in WWE – was being rejected by the modern fans, and decided to turn heel. shortly thereafter, Bret reunited with his brother Owen, brothers-in-law The British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart, and longtime family friend Brian Pillman, to form The new Hart Foundation. This was debatably Bret’s finest year in the WWF, as But Hart’s transition to heel alone, was a groundbreaking storyline, but when you factor the twist that The Hart Foundation bashed America every week on TV - and were booed as heels in the US - but we’re cheered as babyfaces everywhere else on the planet, this really was an unforgettable and groundbreaking period in WWF history, that you’ll never experience ever again. You’ll also never see it covered more extensively, on a month to month basis, than right here on Podcast on a Pole— from the man responsible for writing it.

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Podcast on a Pole is a monthly episodic podcast, looking back at wrestling’s Monday Night War, through the eyes of one’s of its biggest influences, Vince Russo. As the head-writer as both the WWE and WCW, Russo was involved with some of wrestling’s most famous segments, featuring the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, DX, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Goldberg, the NWO and more.

On this episode of Podcast on a Pole, we take an in depth look at June 1997, as Vince Russo breaks down a month that saw plans for the King of the Ring totally revamped— including the overall winner and the cancelled Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin vs Brian Pillman matches — leaving us with a Shawn Michaels vs Steve Austin match no one asked for. However, when it came to getting his hands on Shawn, Bret couldn’t wait any longer, giving us the infamous backstage fight in Hartford on June 9th. We get the full lowdown from the man that was there.

You’d think that in itself could be a full episode, but that’s never the case with Raw in 1997, as we also look at the Undertaker’s secret, the implosion of the Nation, the heel turn of Ahmed Johnson, the three faces of Foley, the plans for Shamrock vs Dan Severn, the weird relationship between Lawler and Heyman and the burial of Sycho Sid — all exclusively on this month’s edition of “Podcast on a Pole!”

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Podcast on a Pole is a monthly episodic podcast, looking back at wrestling’s Monday Night War, through the eyes of one’s of its biggest influences, Vince Russo. As the head-writer as both the WWE and WCW, Russo was involved with some of wrestling’s most famous segments, featuring the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, DX, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Goldberg, the NWO and more.

On this episode of Podcast on a Pole, we take an in depth look at May 1997, as Vince Russo breaks down his third month in creative— a month that sewed the seeds for so much that was to come, including the implosion of Bret Hart and Michaels and the long-term feud between The Undertaker and Kane. 

This episode deep dives into subjects such as, the real physical condition of Brian Pillman, the ‘Sunny days’ comment, the Bret and Shawn over-run, the foundations of Kane, the sit-down interviews from Mick Foley and Goldust, the Faarooq race card controversy, the utilisation of Sunny and more— all exclusively on this month’s edition of “Podcast on a Pole!”

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Podcast on a Pole is a monthly episodic podcast, looking back at wrestling’s Monday Night War, through the eyes of one’s of its biggest influences, Vince Russo. As the head-writer as both the WWE and WCW, Russo was involved with some of wrestling’s most famous segments, featuring the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, DX, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Goldberg, the NWO and more.

On this episode of Podcast on a Pole, we take an in depth look at April 1997, with Vince Russo now into his second month on the creative team and definitely beginning to find his feet— with his fingerprints all over the latter shows in month. Despite his influence beginning to eek through, he’s still having to lose some battles, as he frustratingly watches them kill Rockbilly every week, while some guys - like Stone Cold Steve Austin - don’t need any scripts or guidance, and won’t let Vince McMahon’s out-dated visions get in their way of their own 20-20 vision. Find out all the details on the show.

Also on this episode, we break down everything else that happened in April 1997, including two of the best back-to-back Raws ever, as we see Bret Hart attacked in the ambulance, two new members added to the Hart Foundation, the demotion of Rocky Maivia, Shamrock shooting on Mike Tyson, Steve Austin running wild and more— all exclusively on this month’s edition of “Podcast on a Pole!”

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> Full breakdown of the WrestleMania 37 Betting odds. > This year is a 2-Night event, taking place on Saturday and Sunday night, exclusively on Peacock in the US.> Billi is joined by wrestling legend and former writer of the WWE, Vince Russo, along with Cav Manning and his 10-year old son Austin (who is up 950% betting the WWE year).Please include these- Austin - @AustinsToysandGames (Instagram)Vince-@TheVinceRussoCav-@LingusMafiaAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Billi and Cav fills in the gaps from the latest episode of Podcast on a Pole, by taking a deeper look into March 1997, including what’s happening on WCW Nitro, looking at the head to head ratings and more. They also analyse the previous episode and preview what’s coming up next month. This is going be a Patreon-only from April, but you get the first one here for free. 

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Podcast on a Pole is a monthly episodic podcast, looking back at wrestling’s Monday Night War, through the eyes of one’s of its biggest influences, Vince Russo. As the head-writer as both the WWE and WCW, Russo was involved with some of wrestling’s most famous segments, featuring the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, DX, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Goldberg, the NWO and more.

On this episode of Podcast on a Pole, we take an in depth look at March 1997, with Vince Russo now officially added to the creative team, off the back of Vince McMahon wanting the TV product to mirror the content of Russo’s Raw Magazine. While this is a huge step up for Russo, he’s already butting heads with 1-2 guys who are playing politics and don’t want him in this position— find out more on the show. 

Aside from Russo’s addition to creative, we also explore everything else that’s happening this month, including WrestleMania 13, the planned identity of Rockabilly, the Bret and Austin double-turn, the much debated health of Shawn Michaels, the signing of Ken Shamrock, The Undertaker as WWF Champion, the formation of the Hart Foundation and much much more! All exclusively on this month’s edition of “Podcast on a Pole!”

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Podcast on a Pole is a monthly episodic podcast, looking back at wrestling’s Monday Night War, through the eyes of one’s of its biggest influences, Vince Russo. As the head-writer as both the WWE and WCW, Russo was involved with some of wrestling’s most famous segments, featuring the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, DX, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Goldberg, the NWO and more.

On this episode of Podcast on a Pole, we delve into February 1997, where Vince Russo is just weeks away from taking over as the WWF’s head-writer. However, despite what’s to come, Russo incredibly reveals how he was much closer to being fired than he was to receiving any kind of the promotion. 

The month itself is full of chaos and controversy, as the WWF continue to trail WCW in ratings, while desperately looking to strike a chord to eat into deficit. This month’s topics include, Shawn’s smile and vacating the WWF title, the strange creative direction of Bret Hart, Vader’s bloody Raw Magazine cover, the Final 4 PPV, the debut of Chyna, The Rock vs HHH, the story behind Vince Russo almost being fired— weeks before he would become the head-writer, and much much more! All exclusively on this month’s edition of “Podcast on a Pole!”

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Podcast on a Pole is a monthly episodic podcast, looking back at wrestling’s Monday Night War, through the eyes of one’s of its biggest influences, Vince Russo. As the head-writer as both the WWE and WCW, Russo was involved with some of wrestling’s most famous segments, featuring the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, DX, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Goldberg, the NWO and more.

On this episode of Podcast on a Pole, we delve into January 1997, as Vince Russo gives his insights on what was a pivotal month for the WWF, as they showed they were still very much alive and kicking— by putting on the unforgettable 1997 #RoyalRumble from the Alamodome.

Russo and the guys look at the build-up to the fore-mentioned Rumble, along with all the other internal goings on— with Vince Russo just a month away from taking over as the company’s head-writer. We explore what the plans #WrestleMania? What was it like dealing with Bret and Shawn? What was the thinking behind Shotgun Saturday Night? Why did everyone hate working with Vader? Why did Russo spoil the result of the 1997 Royal Rumble? Was their heat Todd Pentigail? Was Sycho Sid actually wasted?

All this and much much more, exclusively on this month’s edition of Podcast on a Pole.

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