It always bothered me that Ash, after winning that fighting-type tourney, left Primeape with the character of the episode that he defeated in the first place just because said guy told him he could to turn Primeape into a "real" champ and even if the obsession he had training Hitmonchan was ruining the relationship with his daughter in the first place o it was like giving alcohol to a recovering adict. Even as a child back them I realized It was one of the stupiest moments of the ashnime.
Did the writers of the show didn't know what to do with Primeape so they wrote him out of the show?