>>19554202I’m not sure it was as simple as that. He turned heel to join the alliance to be a mole and he basically tapped and threw the match when Rock put him in the Sharpshooter (the yearly Montreal reference) then you found out he did it on purpose and was working for WWE which would make him a Face again. Except the crowd reaction was not what it was supposed to be. So they flipped again. The Alliance was supposed to be heel but then Ric Flair’s regime that replaced was supposed to be face and McMahon was a heel again. Kurt was mega over before that 9/11 shit went down and he really lost tons of heat when he dropped the belt two weeks or whatever later.
The main point I was making was that they didn’t want to job him out at Mania because his did figure into their long term plans. Jericho got a little transitional run and if he could do something with it, mores the better, but the odds were really stacked with the way they made him look.
