On the most recent episode of Writing With Russo, longtime wrestling personality Vince Russo revealed an interesting story about Dustin Rhodes’ infamous Seven gimmick.
After a couple of questionable vignettes aired, Seven floated to the ring, where he cut a quick promo, and never made an appearance again. Russo explained what happened, and told listeners:
“When I went to WCW, I adopted the Seven character. Now, Seven was Dustin [Rhodes] and that was a creation of Dusty Rhodes. He came up with Seven. I walked into WCW and they were doing the Seven character. When it came to Dusty and Dustin, I respected what they were doing before I got there. So I’m going to go along with Seven, no problem, I’m going to go along with this. They cut vignettes and if you remember, there were children involved in these vignettes. I remember a window and all that stuff. Standards and practises pulled it. Dustin to this day, thinks I put the kibosh on it. No bro, I did not put the kibosh on it. I told you a million times, standards and practises put the kibosh. So now, we’re in no man’s land. The only thing I could do that that point was… Dustin went out there as the character and he cut a shoot promo”
(H/T and transcribed by SKWrestling)
