RAW: January 9th, 2017 [Live Discussion]

[MGS32]

To be fair HBK was never a big draw

 

[edge4ever]

I said that about Roman

 

[Solid Snake]

HBK was for the right crowds

 

[MGS32]

They can still easily force it, they did that with Cena and Batista.

 

[edge4ever]

He's the WII U while Cena is the WII

 

[Jacob Fox]

He absolutely was for a short period of time

 

[Solid Snake]

Batista was being forced and ended up being a joke to everyone

 

[edge4ever]

Yes he was

 

[edge4ever]

Cena is the only exception to all this

 

[Closed]

he was

 

[edge4ever]

He was somewhat forced

 

[edge4ever]

But also popular at the time

 

[edge4ever]

And it worked

 

[MGS32]

HBK was not a draw, a lot of his time on top was during dark periods for WWE

 

[Solid Snake]

he was decent on the mic too... but his ring skills blew and Vince wanted him to be in everyone's face

 

[edge4ever]

For the new era

 

[edge4ever]

It was still way more organic than Roman, but you get my drift