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Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:25:45 No.10864697 View View Reply Original Report

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>The biggest anti draw in your company goes over the biggest star of all time in the main event at his peak in popularity
This was WWE's Starrcade

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:28:31 No.10864723 Report

Quoted By: >>10864735 >>10866193

Nah this was
>let's just take our top face and... turn him heel for no reason

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:28:52 No.10864725 Report

Quoted By: >>10864749 >>10864979 >>10865087

jericho went over?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:29:38 No.10864735 Report

Quoted By: >>10864761 >>10864763

>>10864723
Rock was already turned on by fans after this point and ratings nosedived by the summer of 2000 despite moving to a channel with the same number of viewers as USA Network

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:31:02 No.10864749 Report

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>>10864725
There's only one anti draw here and it's not Rock, Y2J or Big Show. That only leaves cunter since he had no fanfare

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:32:56 No.10864761 Report

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>>10864735
They hadn't turned on Austin though. He teased a face turn later that year and got the biggest fucking pop ever and they turned right around and turned him heel AGAIN. That was the final nail in the coffin

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:33:25 No.10864763 Report

Quoted By: >>10864900

>>10864735
>Rock was already turned on by fans
Rocky fucks fans?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:46:26 No.10864900 Report

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>>10864763
Fans turned on him the minute he paired against Austin

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 20:54:19 No.10864979 Report

Quoted By:

>>10864725
He wasn't even in it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 21:03:37 No.10865087 Report

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>>10864725
He's the only person in the company that could have went against Rock and gotten cheered except for Stone Cold Steve austin

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 23:09:17 No.10866193 Report

Quoted By: >>10866246

>>10864723
Wasn't this originally Austin's decision, because he'd done literally everything else there was to do in WWE? He ended up regretting it because his merch sales really took a hit, but he seemed to be originally fully on board with it all.

That heel run was some of his all-time best character work and promos, too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 23:14:34 No.10866246 Report

Quoted By: >>10866274 >>10866309

>>10866193
Yes, he wanted to do it, and I thought it was entertaining too but it tanked their business. They just didn't have a guy to replace him as top face so it wasn't the best decision with how over he still was.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 23:17:58 No.10866274 Report

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>>10866246
Yeah they needed Goldberg or Sting to come in as the top babyface and stop him. It would have been huge if Goldberg or Sting came out when Austin was beating everybody up. He had no A level faces to go against

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Jul 2023 23:21:39 No.10866309 Report

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>>10866246
True, doing that at the same time the Rock went away to make a movie left them without any obvious top babyface, though Angle's babyface run against Austin during the Invasion was a great feud, I feel like Angle could've been The Guy if they kept it going.

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