>cruiserweight beats both your top guys in a single night to win the "main" strapsay what you want about vince but the man was one of a kind for crazy shit like this
>My two biggest stars won’t do the job for my doofus son-in-law to be at Mania Doesn’t seem all that crazy really.
>>19542710Nowadays if a Willy Ospreay type jumped ship and beat Cody and Punk in one night it wouldn't be that unbelievable because they were all indie shitters in Ringa Vonner and Gay E. Dubya
Jericho was more over than pretty much the vast majority of the roster, i don't think the majority of fans considered him a cruserweight at that point either.
>>19542710This was total booking whiplash and dare I say an unwinnable situation for the guy. People gloss over the fact that Jericho had lost most of his heat after doing nothing but jobs for two years, with only Rock and Benoit really going 50/50 with him because they didn't care about upsetting the son-in-law. Cope all you want, but that's the hard truth about this so called "bad" title reign.
>>19542734'at 'rt
>>19542710Wonder how much gaitch seethe'd that night
The plan was to get the belts on Triple H. They needed a transitional champion. Jericho was the guy they picked.
>>19542710Downhill after that.
>>19543559An endless slop we still rideA judas jeridarling please and thank you
>>19542726kek this
>>19543533You mean Triple H was the transitional champion for Hogan
>>19543533Booking Jericho as a complete geek didnt do Hatich any favor after defeating him tho
>>19543610That wasn't the plan. That's just what happened when Hogan got such babyface reactions that they pivoted. From the beginning, Jericho was literally just a guy holding the belts until HHH got there.
>>19542710amazing fucking momenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToL5DZ6kkhQ
>>19543625Yeah and Hunter and Hogan were both Faces at the time. Taker was the men.
>>19543612No it did not>>19543625This is correct>>19543610No one foresaw that. Seriously. Just having watched it happen, you would have to assume the plan was it’s supposed to be heel Austin vs face HHH. Long term I mean. It’s the culmination of all the Two Man Power trip and running down the car and the Austin Heel turn. That was a very weird year for WWE though. Or F rather. 9/11. Austin flip flopping as a heel. The Invasion just shit out instead of planned out. Vince only half heartedly doing it because everyone was convincing him he’d be leaving dimes on the table otherwise. Bringing in the hold out guys a few months after the rest. Triple H getting the gruesome injury. At some point they wrapped up Austin/HHH early with that gimmick match. HHH comes back from the injury mega over which I they were assuming. Probably the only time he came anywhere close to getting reactions like the other top guys. The Garden, all the shows in the northeast. The Rumble just mega pops. Him and Austin brawling at the Rumble and the reaction it got clearly pointed to what people wanted. Instead they got him working with Jericho as Stephanie’s bitch boy. It fizzled badly especially compared to Rock/Hogan which legend.
>>19543679Do you think Triple H was seething after Hulk first stealing his spotlight at 18 and then beating him for the title right after? Did he play The Game by ensuring that Hogan got booed by the WWE Universe 20 years later?
