Did they hold the business back 8-10 years by not pushing this guy to the moon? He was the most over champion in the U.S for his brief peak as a heel with no smarks in the audience. If you redid his career, it probably would turn out better than it did don't you think? Just turn him face and push him to the moon, but I guess they just weren't thinking like that at the time until McMahon Sr. died and Vince got ambitious. They put the title on fucking Backlund instead based on a dinner table bet, a story that's been lost to history. It's amazing watching whatever tape has survived from the time and seeing how Ventura and especially Hogan studied him.

>https://youtu.be/aDevJa_Yius