I feel that Austin should never have turned babyface in the first place. I think he actually harmed the company by becoming a babyface, because WWE turned him into a fan favorite for the benefit of the audience, thereby making selling Austin, rather than letting him stay true to the heel character he was when he signed up. In the create your own company thread, I expressed my feelings on the matter of turns from heel to face and vice versa. I don´t like them, I don´t appreciate people changing from good to bad, or bad to good. I much prefer people to stay true to the identities that they had when they came in.
Triple H would never have gotten injured had Austin still been a heel. He´d never have been paired with him, so he´d never have lost the part of his career he did and he´d have gotten on with it instead of having to sit on the sidelines. The Two man power trip was a weak way to create a litle more excitement and I say weak because from 98-01, Austin had spent years of his life playing the opposite of the guy that made WWE so devilishly delicious back in 1996.
In the end, 2001 sucked because of the rather scatterbrained idea of returning Austin to form. They should´ve just left him to be a heel and then they wouldn´t have had to bother about the shock of a heel turn, the mysterious new show of allegiance to a man he was against for two years. That hurt Austin´s credibility, in the sense it made him look like a two faced bastard.
