everytime I read through that timeline, it still surprises me how bad dudes fell off 2 PPVs after losing to HHH...steiner, jericho, rvd, booker t, kane, all went way down the card after being built up to slaughter.
Do they do this to anyone right now? Maybe Ryback after the CM Punk loss but that was their own booking/timing fault...like I said, my analogy of the NES Boss Syndrome where you go back to level 1 if you lose is perfect...if you lost to HHH, unless you were IN the kliq (not even kliq'd up...IN the kliq) you were done for 6 months of relevance.