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I don't really blame Bret or HBK. The roster at the time was mostly awful and the gimmicks were at an all-time low. Straight garbage. WWF after the steroid trial was terrible.
2014 article - 10 Lowest Drawing WWE Champions Of All Time
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Thisnjs aboht wwe champions not being draws right...who dress less then 750 million dollars fkr the company
Got to laugh at the HBGOAT slander, the entire business was trash and this was the height of the gimmick era
He was carrying the damn company on his back being the ONLY thing worth watching, everyone during that time period was having their best matches with him
He was carrying the damn company on his back being the ONLY thing worth watching, everyone during that time period was having their best matches with him
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I'll always feel like the think that happened with Punk was post Pipe Bomb, he really was "The One To Watch" in WWE.
Folks deny it, but there's been no bigger draw since Austin than the story of "The Regular Slobby Looking/Acting/Talking Dude vs The Corporate Machine Or Whatever Represents It"
WWE misses this point by always having the Corporation pick on these pretty boy square jawed babyfaces, but I digress...
Anyway, I saw it as Punk leveraging that fame in his contract renegotiations and one of the stipulations was that he was champ for a determined length of time.
Vince or whoever, being tired of his shyt, gave him the belt..... but booked Cena as champ.
Absolutely truth. They had their best chance at creating a new megastar with CM Punk during and after the summer of Punk and completely blew it.
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Just peeped the full link and...OF COURSE it's a WhatCulture article. That site is a cesspool and its writers are hacks who don't grasp basic reasoning and are mostly just writing shyt to get clicks or get an agenda across.
What was so impressive about the smackdown numbers? They went down every year
The ppv buyrates in 2004 when Eddie and Benoit became champ tanked so bad they had to put the belt on JBL and Orton
Eddie and Benoit made the world title seem like a midcard title
The mid -90s sucked in general though.
Benoit, for all the technical skill he had, had the charisma of a cardboard box, and that's a bit of an insult to the box.
Can't tolerate that Eddie slander.....
Punk was neutered.
Miz is spot on. I almost forget he had a Wrestlemania main event and I watched that shyt live.
Benoit, for all the technical skill he had, had the charisma of a cardboard box, and that's a bit of an insult to the box.
Can't tolerate that Eddie slander.....
Punk was neutered.
Miz is spot on. I almost forget he had a Wrestlemania main event and I watched that shyt live.
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This list is garbage. Putting Bret, HBK, and Undertaker on the list, when all three are probably top 10 all-time performers?
Yeah, I never understood the logic of thinking that people ONLY turn in for the champ.
Especially, when there were 2 heavyweight belts.
People tune in to watch the whole show, the champ is only on screen maybe 20 minutes the entire 3 hr telecast.
And the mid '90s were terrible for everybody.
Just look at what WCW were doing in 1995 and they had Hogan, Flair, Savage,etc. . .
the bottom line is, that the NWO saved the wrestling business in '96 and EVERYBODY, especially Vince benefited from the boom and the chain reaction they caused.
Hell, a guy like Stone Cold Steve Austin would'nt have even been considered a viable character in the mid '90s. The NWO made "bad guys" cool. Black became white because of them.
The only ones I agree with are Miz, JBL, Eddie, and Benoit.
None of those guys are supposed to be anyone's heavyweight champ.
Yeah, I never understood the logic of thinking that people ONLY turn in for the champ.
Especially, when there were 2 heavyweight belts.
People tune in to watch the whole show, the champ is only on screen maybe 20 minutes the entire 3 hr telecast.
And the mid '90s were terrible for everybody.
Just look at what WCW were doing in 1995 and they had Hogan, Flair, Savage,etc. . .
the bottom line is, that the NWO saved the wrestling business in '96 and EVERYBODY, especially Vince benefited from the boom and the chain reaction they caused.
Hell, a guy like Stone Cold Steve Austin would'nt have even been considered a viable character in the mid '90s. The NWO made "bad guys" cool. Black became white because of them.
The only ones I agree with are Miz, JBL, Eddie, and Benoit.
None of those guys are supposed to be anyone's heavyweight champ.
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Who is number 10 i never heard the guy name
Of course he's on the list. He should be #1.. Nobody paid to see him, one of the most boring champions they've ever had in WWE.. Punk would be on most people's list.