General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[RLStern]

They dumped the debts on WCW to polish assets for the merger, whenever companies merge they get rid of assets not with company image

 

[RLStern]

hence why AOL TIME WARNER kept the Atlanta Braves which actually lost money unlike WCW, because it’s better to have a baseball brand than wrestling, even if it drew

 

[TOP GUY TIME]

Austin shouldn't have turned heel. But you know who should be WWE Champion? Lince Dorado. Lince Dorado > Drew McIntyre

 

[RLStern]

If Austin didn’t turn heel ratings would’ve been worse when Rock leaves, it lightened the blow

 

[TOP GUY TIME]

Lightening the blow still doesn't mean it's good

 

[RLStern]

austuns heel turn was a success, he was booed and it reinvigorated him, he was stale and was getting outsold by angle and HHH

 

[TOP GUY TIME]

That's kinda how a heel works. they get booed

 

[RLStern]

People claim it didn’t work and that no one wanted to boo him, yet they booed him and booed him as a babyface a couple of times

 

[RLStern]

In reality ratings were gonna dip regardless because Rock left, it would’ve been worse if Austin stayed face because he was stale and his ratings were down, his segments as a heel were better than as an face in late 2000

 

[Deezy]

Austin was totally booed at 17.....not Rock tho

 

[TOP GUY TIME]

Still doesn't make it good. Anyways back to my subject, Lince Dorado could carry WWE on its back.

 

[TOP GUY TIME]

and should

 

[Deezy]

Note the reaction that Austin got when he won the Rumble that year.. totally mirrors Reigns in 2014

 

[RLStern]

It does make it good, Austin as a face was played out by this point, his heel turn is what finally got him back to babyface success in late 2001-early 2002 during the what era. From summer of 99 the face run ran its course

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Austin and Triple H killing fools those first few months of his heel turn was one of my things ever.