All thats good & all but if thats the metrics we want to use then why did Ratings & Business consistently get bigger when Austin was out for a year?
Because Austin already laid the ground work and turned the company around. You think the business wouldn't have been as good in 2000 if Austin wasn't injured? If anything ratings and business would've been even bigger. You can't say that for Michaels. He was getting record low ratings as champ. He has no track record as a draw. Austin does. Without Austin the whole company would be fukked.
Also, what what did the bigger buy rate, Mania 16 or 17?