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Originally Posted by Instant Classic
HHH had nothing to do with with wrestling biggest boom, he was just fortune it enough to have been put over by the biggest draws of his time, Stone Cold, Rock, Mick Foley... If it wasn't for them, no one would give a fuck who HHH is.
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My only disagreement with that is that for every great top tier performer, they need good/better than most 2nd tier performers on the card with them. Austin, Rock, Foley were all at the top during the "big boom", but their performances were all enhanced by a solid undercard, and solid 2nd tier workers (like Triple H).
I think that is one of the biggest things not present currently, that were there when wrestling was at its peak. All the solid upper lever but not top notch guys have now moved into the main event or have left. Triple H (though he was a little ahead of the time, and was main eventing by the end of the boom), Edge, Christian (in TNA), Kurt Angle (in TNA), Chris Jericho (not wrestling). Now, who is left in the undercard? Nobody. Nobody really solid with a ton of potential has stepped up to fill that void. The CLOSEST people that come to mind for me are MVP, Mr. Kennedy, and The Hardy's continue to teeter around that area of the card. But nowhere near the talent level of the boom area at all.
So, Triple H
contributed to the boom of wreslting, but I would not call him a primary component. It's tough to weigh draw against each other as far as HBK vs. HHH. I mean, technicaly HHH has drawn more, but again that was as a part of the boom. HBK was
the guy and was the single biggest star all by himself. So....I dunno how to weigh that out. I think I give the edge to HBK, because when you look at the time WWE tried to make HHH "
the guy", wrestling came plummeting out of the highest rated era.