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Rikishi was very entertaining and fun, and put in some great matches for a guy his size and shape.
He was absolute gold in 2000, and the thing with Too Cool was suprisingly good. He hit his peak in summer 2000 when he got a few big matches against HHH and the Regime, and IMO he was a great IC champion for that time period.
They took what was fun and entertaining, and could have been a mainstay of the uppermidcard and tried to push him, poorly.
They should have focused on moving Benoit and Jericho upwards and let Rikishi account for the IC division, with Eddie and Tazz and others.
In hindsight it would have been better to let Rikishi stay as awesome as he was, and then turned heel in a simpler, less extravagant manner...by turning on Too Cool. Then a Too Cool vs Rikishi/Haku fued might have been fun. Shit, then a reunion down the line might have worked out.
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