The following are excerpts from the 7/9/15 edition of WrestleZone Daily featuring former WWE/WCW/TNA Head Writer Ed Ferrara chatting with WZ Daily host Nick Hausman and his guest co-host Marty DeRosa.
NH: What’s your take on the back and forth between Ric Flair & Vince Russo as of late?
EF: It was very refreshing to hear to hear Flair, who was given the opportunity to bury Russo, basically admit what it was. We’ve said it countless times, or I’ve said it countless times, what we didn’t know when we signed on to come in to WCW was that the Titanic had already hit the iceberg and was taking on water. But nobody smartened us up to that until it was way too late. The atmosphere we walked in to. We thought we were walking in to a nightmare. We had no idea how extensive the damage had already been done.
NH: There’s a lot of people that say that this looks like the end of days like when WCW was going under. Do you have a similar vibe right now or do you think this has a different vibe?
EF: I’ve had that vibe for awhile. The end of days in WCW, that was all behind the scenes. Eric Bischoff was frantically negotiating for the purchase of this company and he had his backers and that purchase was going to go through, as far as anybody knew. But, when that fell through and Brad Seigel and Turner announced, “Well, going forward on Turner Networks there will be no place for wrestling programming,” then that went away. It was just, I had the same feeling in my stomach that I probably would have now if I was working for TNA.
In the full interview Ed chats candidly with Nick & Marty more about the TNA-WCW correlations, NXT, who he enjoys writing for, some of his favorite angles that he was a part of, why he’s ALWAYS apologizing and more…
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