I think it's a shitshow where both parties come out looking terrible. If I had to absolutely choose, I would choose Russo since, despite being objectively the worst thing to happen to pro wrestling, at least his scenario did not involve giving the title yet again to Hogan (just to David Arquette..). The only ones I feel really bad for are the fans who had to sit through the bullshit in real time, both this incident and all the other shit that was happening at that time. I am sure there are people posting on this board who were watching all of that unfold live, as and when these incidents happened. No wonder a lot of them got so burnt, they stopped watching wrestling forever when WCW folded. That entire generation of 2 million fans did not switch over to WWF and apparently never watched any wrestling again.