Following the news earlier this week from Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that former WWE, WCW and TNA Wrestling creative member Vince Russo was in talks with the promotion and had meetings with executive producer Eric van Wagenen, Russo has taken to his website to completely deny the claims.

Russo on his website said that Meltzer is either an absolute liar, just looking to stir up his readers by attempting to marry Russo’s name with Lucha Underground so that the haters can come out and take their free cheap shots at him, or one of Meltzer’s reliable sources is lying to him. Russo stated that he never heard of van Wagenen’s name before and wanted a retraction of the story from Meltzer.