Posted By James Walsh on 11/27/25


While speaking to Ariel Helwani, former WWE writer Vince Russo commented on his work with Juggalo Championship Wrestling. Russo compared ICP’s Violent J to Vince McMahon…

“I worked with Violent J for four days. And I have to say this because I want everybody to know this: I hadn’t seen J in 26 years. I worked with him for four days.

Violent J, out of everybody I ever worked with, is the closest to a Vince McMahon—without a shadow of a doubt. This guy is a genius. This show was created 26 years ago and nobody knows about it.

And let me tell you, Ariel, how I know he’s a genius. When you are creative, you are not detail-oriented. You’re not, because your mind is out here—you’re always thinking outside of the box. You need somebody else to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. That’s where Ed [Ferrara] and I worked so well together. Ed was the detail guy.

I sat there and I watched Violent J for four days. This guy did both. And this was unbelievable to me. Because whether people want to believe it or not, Vince McMahon was not really a creative genius. Vince’s genius was that he could see things nobody else could see. And what he used to call that all the time was ‘the nuances.’

Vince would see the nuances that nobody else saw. And if I wrote a script that was a nine, Vince would tweak a nuance here, a nuance there—now the show was a ten. But you give Vince McMahon a blank piece of paper? Vince McMahon cannot write you a wrestling show.

And that’s why, when I saw the creative genius of Violent J, I was like, ‘Man, this is the guy I want to work with.’ There’s no politics. There’s no BS. This is a guy who knows we need to expand this and bring it to the world once again. And that’s exactly what we’re doing.”