WWE NXT Superstar Samoa Joe tweeted the following on Monday, denying reports that he suffered an elbow injury:
Rumors of a elbow injury are false. WWE has trainers who in turn have tape. It’s a free resource I enjoy using preventively.
— Joey Headrocker (@SamoaJoe) July 18, 2016
There were some recent reports that Joe suffered an injury after he had his elbow taped up at a weekend WWE NXT live event.
Vince Russo recently spoke out for a new interview, discussing the Montreal Screwjob. Russo said,
“Bro, I’m the one who gave Vince the idea for Shawn to put Bret in the Sharpshooter. I’m the one who told him in a creative meeting days before it happened. When I was on two phone calls with Vince and Bret that Bret did not know I was on. Vince pitched Bret every storyline you could imagine. Bret turned every single one of them down. We are getting in to 8 or 9 o’clock at night now and we’d been at the creative meeting since about 9 in the morning. Out of pure frustration I turned to Vince and said, ‘Freaking screw it, Vince. Have Shawn put Bret in the Sharpshooter and have the referee call for the bell.’ That is the story. That is what happened. All I know is days before Survivor Series at the creative meeting when the finish was being discussed out of frustration because Bret wouldn’t agree to anything I just said, ‘Screw it! Let Shawn put him in the Sharpshooter. Have the referee call for the bell.’ Done. I had no contact after that. This was probably on a Thursday. I did not know what he was going to do. I had no idea. He kind of kept his distance from me and looking back now I think that was an effort to protect me. I sat down next to Taker when the finish of the match took place and it was sure enough what I threw out at Vince at that booking meeting. I sat there and I was like, ‘Holy crap! I can’t believe he did that!’ But he did. I had to talk to Bret Hart on the phone less than a week later. He was not very pleasant when I told Bret, ‘Bro, I support what Vince did. I understand why Vince did it, Bret, and you’ll never understand this side of it.’ One of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life. So when I tell you I wish it was a work… I wish it was a work.”
