Russo says that Richards, who’s now 46, still looks tremendous and is in better shape than the majority of WWE’s current roster. He asks Richards why he’s not still working for a large wrestling promotion. Richards mentions that after working in the wrestling business for over two decades he wanted to leave his mark on life in another way. After recently being released from Impact Wrestling he decided to begin helping other people with fitness training, and he loves to spend time with his family and foster animals.
Russo informs that he’s not a big fan of Paul Heyman due to his personal interactions with Heyman. When McMahon began bankrolling ECW back in the day things began drastically changing in WWE. A partnership emerged between both companies, with mid-card WWE talents appearing on ECW and certain ECW talents appearing on WWE.
Russo recalls telling McMahon that he wanted to work with Bubba Ray Dudley and Stevie Richards, who were working with ECW at the time. McMahon approached Heyman who said that those guys had no interest working for WWE and he couldn’t convince them otherwise. Russo knew immediately that Heyman was lying out of his teeth.
