Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
You shutter to think had they didn't have the battery in their back from WCW back then that they would have pulled the trigger for Stone Cold. Even when Stone Cold was rising in 97 to mid 98. Ratings didn't jump over night. The fans DEMANDED and wanted Austin. He won the Royal Rumble, He whooped ass in No Way Out 98 and build red hot momentum going into Mania against HBK and the rest is history.
Now imagine if they pulled some sucker ass shyt and have HBK beat Austin via screwjob in Mania and keep the strap just like they did with DB over and over. DB's momentum is organic just like Austin's. The difference is Vince was scared and Austin had enough stroke to force his hand. Daniel Bryan on the other hand don't have that pull and with the WWE being the only in town, They have to take the bullshyt and eat it. This is a sad result of having no competition
actually,...
vkm was really slow in moving in the direction of Austin.
it is just vkm/wwf machine have written this fairy tale.
that illustrates it differently from what took place.
Austin, winning at mania xiv was long overdue by then, as well.
vkm, did not know what to do.
until, scsa was the last asset left.
if hbk does not get injured.
forcing vkm, to realize Austin is the guy.
we would have never seen Austin with the strap and wwf would have went out of business.
even the actual quality of wwf tv, is a fairytale during the attitude era.
real talk,...
vkm has never consistently created quality tv or product.
especially during the attitude era.
it was only because Austin and mick were there.
to weather the storm while, the rock was ramping up.
is what made it tolerable.......
real talk,...
you can go back and read the crz rants and the keith rants.
to see the so-called attitude era quality is a farce/fairytale.
the wwf has never had high quality programming consistently.
out of the principles of Austin, mick, macho man and the rock.
if you go back and watch the actual shows or read the rants, week to week.
after the initial shock of the guy who should have went over went over.
you will see, the actual quality was just as piss poor as it is has relatively always been.
art barr