Mike Mooneyham has an interview up with Dutch Mantell where he talks about his new book, his online blogs, working for TNA and the direction of the company since he left.
On the tension between Cornette & Russo:These two guys don’t like each other. Do they really hate each other? The answer is no. Hate isn’t strong enough for what these guys feel for each other. Words that would probably best describe their feelings would be detest, loathe and abhor—especially on Jimmy’s side. Vince didn’t like Cornette’s booking because he considered Southern booking too hokey. Cornette hated Vince’s booking because it made no sense. Vince didn’t like Jimmy being from the South, and Jimmy thought Russo sounded too New Yorker. Vince claimed Cornette couldn’t book Madison Square Garden, and Jimmy claimed that Russo couldn’t book a table at Denny’s for lunch.
On TNA since he left:I told Jeff Jarrett that his big mistake was allowing bigger con men than him to get in there. That's what he did. Before Jeff, Cornette and I left, we had this thing up to a 1.3 for three weeks in a row. When we left, you could almost track the demise of TNA from July 31 backwards. They dropped it down to a .9. And it's continued to drop. I don't think they know their audience. In their eyes, if you don't understand it, it's not the writing, it's you. The joke seems to be on them. I've been around a lot of offices with the death knell, and the TNA office has got the death knell about it. The only money they're really making is off Spike, and if Spike balks, they're screwed. What a war this has turned out to be. This hasn't even been a border skirmish yet. How can you have a war when one side doesn't even know it's going on?
