There have been a number of times when someone was put on the whipping post to presumably redress the balance. It was often done because the fans got upset by power shifting too much in favour of a stable or individual.
One of the most graphic examples was the build up to the Great American Bash 1997. Managent must have decided that the NWO was eating up too many fans and to set things straight, they had Scott Hall be Ric Flair's whipping boy for the opening minutes of their match on Nitro. If you think this isn't the case, please tell me why Scott Hall...
Sold four punches from Flair without even trying to hit back.
Took three back hand chops and went down again.
Let Flair punch him three more times when he rose.
Let Ric Flair bounce off the ropes and deliver three kicks to his leg and then kick him in the back of the leg to make him fall again.
Take Hall down again with a backhand chop after a failed attempt by Hall to throw him into an elbow by Syxx on the apron followed by Hall missing his first punch.
Flair punches Hall three more times and then Hall absorbs a back chop, taking Flair into a corner where he gets in his three punches, before Flair reverses their positions and chops him twice more and delivers a punch.
Hall reversed an Irish whip into the corner, which Ric Flair used to jump off the apron to attack Syxx. Then, and only then, Hall changes the tide of the match in his favor by jumping on Flair from the apron as he pounds Syxx on the floor outside the ring.
Now, if that doesn't make Scott Hall look like s scapegoat, wtf does?
One of the most graphic examples was the build up to the Great American Bash 1997. Managent must have decided that the NWO was eating up too many fans and to set things straight, they had Scott Hall be Ric Flair's whipping boy for the opening minutes of their match on Nitro. If you think this isn't the case, please tell me why Scott Hall...
Sold four punches from Flair without even trying to hit back.
Took three back hand chops and went down again.
Let Flair punch him three more times when he rose.
Let Ric Flair bounce off the ropes and deliver three kicks to his leg and then kick him in the back of the leg to make him fall again.
Take Hall down again with a backhand chop after a failed attempt by Hall to throw him into an elbow by Syxx on the apron followed by Hall missing his first punch.
Flair punches Hall three more times and then Hall absorbs a back chop, taking Flair into a corner where he gets in his three punches, before Flair reverses their positions and chops him twice more and delivers a punch.
Hall reversed an Irish whip into the corner, which Ric Flair used to jump off the apron to attack Syxx. Then, and only then, Hall changes the tide of the match in his favor by jumping on Flair from the apron as he pounds Syxx on the floor outside the ring.
Now, if that doesn't make Scott Hall look like s scapegoat, wtf does?