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Why do people pretend Hunter was fast tracked to the belt?
Juan Garcia
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Colton Mitchell
Go back and look at the state of him in DX in 1998, he's barely the leader of his own stable
Billy Gunn and X-Pac get bigger pops than him.
His rise to the top in 1999 was pretty damn quick and it took him some time to fill into the role as a main-eventer (mostly credited to Mick Foley)
Cameron King
>Billy Gunn and X-Pac
And Road Dogg...".oh you didn't know!"
Nathaniel Cruz
Complete revisionist bullshit
Hunter Smith
It’s oreyyy accurate. Austin was injured/taking time off when Hunter really got thrown into the spotlight
Jackson Miller
And in a year he was the most over wrestler in the company
Landon Bailey
He was the least popular guy in DX after Chyna. But when he returned with the jacket in 2002 he was over as fuck.
Brody Lewis
The Rock was in the same spot, yet nobody complains.
Brody Thompson
Kek what a revisionist mark bitch
Lincoln Nguyen
The biggest year in WWE history was 2000
Who was injured? Steve
Who was away filming? Rock
Who was champ? HHH
Never forget that
Christopher Walker
t. faggots who weren't watching.
Go back and look at the reaction when he won the title on Raw. Crowd was dead and confused. His first/second reign was a total failure and his feud with Foley is the only thing that made him credible leading up to Wrestlemania.
Cameron Sanders
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Noah Bell
Because he was fast tracked to the belt?
Aaron Stewart
>crowd was dead and confused
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Alexander Collins
Ratings tanked after Summerslam 2000.
They were riding the wave from 1999.
Rock vs Angle/Benoit was dimeless.
William Reed
>Three people cheering
>Everybody else showing no reaction
Thanks for proving my point.
Jonathan Watson
>Ratings tanked after Summerslam 2000.
Summerslam and the next 3 PPV were headlined by Rock, Taker, Angle and never HHH
Proves they needed him
Levi Long
Listen to the noise
Andrew Edwards
Why are Triple-fags this dumb? The Rock was around for all of 2000 and left in 01. The rating that HHH marks love to use to claim he was a draw, were the same when the Big Show was the champion. As for his best period, it was when he was muscle for Vince - the real heel. HHH has a great look and is a good hand, but that's all he's ever been. Whenever he's had to go it alone, he's been a flop.
Carter Parker
I know. His first/second reign in 1999 were dimeless. His reign in 2000 feuding with Foley/Rock was dimes.
Gaytch was the only interesting villain for Rock. Once Rock moved onto shitters his act got stale fast.
Oliver Baker
That's quiet as fuck for an attitude crowd in 1999.
Easton Carter
This cope is sad
Jose Thompson
So why did ratings tank when Rock held the belt and wasn't feuding with Gaytch anymore?
Isaiah Stewart
Because the babyface chasing has been the bigger draw - at which point, the feud was with Vince and faction, not just HHH. Also, they tried to turn Paulie into a babyface with the Angle/Stephanie thing in 00, however he was a flop.
Dylan Flores
>muh Foley
Watch the street fight at the Rumble; crowd was dead as fuck. People back then didn't care about it as much as people pretend to now
Hudson Ortiz
Yeah because they were brawling in the crowd the whole time and nobody could see shit.
The feud was getting plenty of reaction on Raw.