Depends on what you value too. We haven't seen many, or any of these house show matches.
What is more valuable, having solid matches every week and 1 classic every few years? or having standard house matches, and 1 or 2 classics a year?
It boils to down to what your criteria is. Workrate and overall consistency is different than an overall body of work.
To me, I could care less if he's not working many house or tv matches, but choose to focus on the fact that he's pumped out a bunch of instant classics.
In other words, I'd rather watch him work 5 mediocre matches with Kozlov and then tear the house down with Taker, than see him have 5 entertaining but forgettable matches with Jeff Jarrett.
Either way, I voted for his first run. That's because I also factored in things like promos, fueds, his run at the top, and the fact that he was going out there and making classics happen from scratch.
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