Except it came out of nowhere. He was a jokester sidekick who did NwO crotch chopes and played Michaels' sidekick before that. Now he was wearing a denim jacket, was jacked up out of nowhere like he was Lex Luger 1993, and was all of a sudden good enough to take the belt from Austin at Summerslam 99? It was beyond ridiculous. Imagine Drew McIntyre doing all of that next year. Yeah fukking right.
Kinda like how rock was coming out with a lil richard from family matters cowlick/jheri curl and attire straight from Sonic green hill zone but became the biggest star ever? Or Austin was a balding lame midcarder flopping with dibiase but blew up?