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Originally Posted by DarthTedious
You know though, he REALLY put over Jericho and Benoit in 2001; even though he didn't drop the belt to either of them, that was really the time where Chris and Chris were really cemented as main event candidates. Say what you want about them, but without that summer of their careers, its entirely reasonable to think that neither of them would have gone on to what they did.
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I think heel Austin would have been slated to do more of this. He was supposed to go onto a fued with Jericho, and likely would have put him and other young incomers over more. The invasion and wcw purchase popped up. After that, he got buried in favor of Hogan and Rock and eventual hit the road.
Pretty much, Austin was doing some stuff to give others rubs while he was at top, but for the most part he was being booked as the top guy because it was still his inital run. By the time it began to look like he was gonna start putting more guys over and pass the torch, he had it ripped from him and the whole thing ended abruptly due to outside factors. Austin never really winded down or was able to pave the road before him. He did make a lot of contributions to a lot of careers, big time. But he never had time to start that 2 or 3 year period of putting over big names singlehandedly. He never really left or got the send off, he was kinda just thrown from the train.