WWF SmackDown! January 3, 2002 Live Discussion Thread

[Hidden Blaze]

Those weak punches

 

[Mitch Buchannon]

Boss Man's terrible strikes

 

[Chris]

WWE is terrified of guys they wanna push getting hit with any move in a match it seems so then they look out of place when they have to actually sell in main event matches

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Now we know where Shane learnt how to throw a punch

 

[Hidden Blaze]

and that one Dark Order guy as well.

 

[Chris]

It certainly wasn't from Vince

 

[Chris]

Anyway, fun match still even if I still hate how Booker was used

 

[Mitch Buchannon]

I mean Boss Man had better punches, he was just a shell of his former self here

 

[Chris]

Yeah poor Boss Man, he used to be such a hoss

 

[Hidden Blaze]

ya hate to see it

 

[Chris]

Y'all better soak up all the Austin pops you get before he takes his ball and goes home

 

[Kross Rhodes]

They would have milked Rock for RIDICULOUSLY long if he never chose to leave at any point himself or got hurt, it's crazy

Man was still fit af in his 2011-2014 run so I can’t see him stepping down from his main event position until even after that. Cena himself was in a top spot from 2004-2017 so I think Rock would have had that Uber ace spot. It’s possible they keep Cena and Rock on separate shows to use both, but not also think they’d have had Batista and Cena and Edge fighting over that secondary spot so none of them get the spot they did.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Book’s has enough of Austin getting in his business.

Time to make scrambled eggs of your noggin.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

That was fun, and quick good show y'all.

 

[Chris]

I think it's hard to even say who else would have been built if Rock was there tbh, butterfly effect and all. The demand for Cena's character was larger bc Rock left I think for one. But like I said who knows really, I wouldn't be surprised if Cena never really amounted to a whole lot though