Two Shakeups in 2002

[zyn081 0]

One good thing about the Austin walk out was that it spared us the "Flair as Austin's assistant" storyline.

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Ahhh, but isnt that what he is doing now? ^o)

[SuperJerk 0]

Since they were feuding at the time, I would assume that it would mean segment after segment of Austin trying to humiliate Flair. That's a little different than Flair being HHH's manager.

[zyn081 0]

Since they were feuding at the time, I would assume that it would mean segment after segment of Austin trying to humiliate Flair.  That's a little different than Flair being HHH's manager.

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Agreed. Its still humilating though licking HHHs ass the way he does.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Jeff Hardy: Undisputed Championship Threat was the highlight of Summer 2002 for me.

[cabbageboy 0]

I can't really recall how exactly RVD jobbed to Brock at the 2002 KOTR but if there was a Heyman run in it wasn't exactly a big deal. In fact in their own weird way I think they tried to protect Van Dam against Brock, and it really hurt both guys in a way. RVD was jobbed out in the 1 important match and it hurt him in the end, and yet Brock didn't really even WIN the feud itself since RVD beat him by DQ every other time. That didn't exactly help Brock get over as an unbeatable monster.

 

I guess my point with Brock is this: Why bother pushing him so hard so fast? The guy had been there all of 4 months and they just put the world title on him. He wasn't over in any appreciable way, hell at SS it was mostly the crowd again turning on The Rock more than it was them liking Brock. And he never really became a seriously notable draw or brought in new fans, so why job out your most over guy to him? All it did was give him too much too soon and nowhere else to go once he jobbed the title a few times.

 

Look at it this way and tell me it doesn't make more sense. Let's say RVD had beaten Brock at KOTR 02, even with a small package or whatever. RVD is the #1 contender, goes on to face either UT (payback for the Dusty Finish title match on Raw where RVD had the title won) or maybe the Rock if they wanted to do that match instead (no problem, crowd would have booed Rock anyway and he'd have played heel). At some point in between you could have Brock get a Heyman run in type IC title win over RVD and you build him from there as well. He could kill everyone for a good 6 months in the IC division and get over as an invincible monster without really sacrificing anyone THAT important. It'd be like Goldberg with the US title...got over as a monster, no one of note aside from maybe Raven was sacrificed. Then after he's paid some dues and gotten over, you push him hard for the world title if he's over to that degree.

 

RVD would of course go on to win the title and you could go in several directions from there, whether it be him defecting to SMDN the way Brock did or stay on Raw. Seriously, doesn't this sound a lot more feasible than what they ended up doing?