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You say Austin was shit as a heel, you are the one acting like one run he made in 01 is the be all, end all of his entire career. That is the failure here. Don't act like nobody remembers the Hollywood Blondes. i do, I know others do as well. I made it perfectly clear.
And Andre and Shiek winning titles? Yeah let's hear it for one transitional champion and one for storyline purposes. Let's us not forget how major a rival Shiek was for Hogan during that time? Being used as a go between for Backlund and Hogan made that such a major rivalry right?
And don't even bring up Russian heels, as it was the easiest fucking character to play during the Cold War, every country bumpkin who could pass of a shitty Russian accent was pushed to the mainevent for that, it doesn't mean shit. Same goes for every Nazi character used after WW2.
Act like you know.
Right, and you actually READ THE FUCKING THREAD you would see my response was clearly to Cwalker and Fab specifically nominating Austin's heel turn in... wait for it... 2001!!!!!!!!11!1!! No one was fucking talking about what he did before he was in WWE. No one cares. But since you want to pretend in your own feeble imagination that we meant a completely different time than the one that was clearly stated, Austin still wasn't a great heel in those days. Get the fuck out of here, you're trying to compare the Hollywood Blondes to the all-time great heels in the history of the entire industry? Believe it or not, there WAS a reason he was released from WCW even if Bischoff didn't see the potential in over-hauling his gimmick, a gimmick he completely ripped off from the Sandman and only got him over so far in WWE because very few of WWE's audience had any clue who Sandman was and it seemed original to them. Austin was never a great heel, not even in WCW. Show me anything to convince me that Austin drew a dime in WCW and I'll retract my statement, but we already know you won't and you know it.
And you can make any excuse you want for Nikolai and Sheik being over, call them "transitional champions" or how easy it was to play the characters the played but it doesn't matter. They were hated more than any other heel of their time. If you want to question the tactics their bookers used to generate that type of heat with the personnel they used, then fine. But don't question the amount of heat those characters drew because they were among the most hated characters in the history of the WWE. It's the same reason Sgt Slaughter playing an Iraqi sympathizer went over so well. God forbid WWE actually used political stereotyping to get someone over right? Like they don't even do that anymore? Get fucking real. This isn't a discussion pertaining to how well these people were on the mic, how great they performed in the ring, or anything else you're making up to suite your argument, but simply how much of a heel they were. Their gimmicks worked and got them over immensely.
Deal with it.