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Yeah, I do/. And he's practically running the company now.
I remember SmackDown being the absolute fucking ripest perkiest tits during that time period because of how RAW, now renamed the Triple H and Friends Variety Hour, became the drizzling fucking shits as Booker T, Rob Van Dam, Chris Jericho, Kane, all ate shit to the Nose. Rob was supposed to have had a run with the belt as early as '02 and Hunter shot it down cause of jealousy and that was reiterated after Rob's knee hit Haitch's throat in the best ever Chamber match, Booker T was being primed for a run after a match at Mania and its undrestandable plans changed because Goldberg was showing up soon, but to have him be called "nappy headed" and the "people like him don't get to be champion" while eating shit to the pedigree for 18 seconds in humiliating fashion is just terrible on both H's and the companies rep. Jericho may or may not have had something up with Steph so there's natural animosity there especially with how his and Hunter's careers turned out, and then there's Kane who was literally in his prme and getting in necrophilia rape storylines starring Triple H. The only success of that time period was the one Trips wanted and that was Orton and Batista turned into superstars and sure as shit, it succeeded. It just took a lot of casualties along the way. The only safe guy during that was of course, Shawn Michaels. And none of that doesn't even touch on Jeff Jarrett's reign of terror happening in TNA at the exact same time.
SmackDown at that time period was a giant blue and silver-hued fist of saving fucking grace for wrestling fans then, even if it was just tag-team match playas and having to go holla-holla one-on-one wit da UndaTakah every week. Had it been live and a real ratings war could have happened within the company during that time period, RAW would have face facts it had mad change the channel energy to it and that all falls on The Game.
And Eugene was amazing, especially paired Regal.
