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Originally Posted by Jordan X
Well immediately after the Surivor Series PPV, Owen got a push and started to feud with Michaels and Helmsley. He took out Michaels in the main event of the DX ppv against Ken Shamrock. I think that one of the potential Wrestlemania 14 plans was to use Shawn Michaels vs Owen Hart as the main event, but because of Shawn's injury and Steve Austins undeniable popularity they went with Austin/Michaels and HHH/Owen.
During his face run after the screwjob he was getting mega over, and was a big deal, but it all seemed to die off after hesitating to put him in the biggest programs.
From there he was a tag team with Jeff Jarrett and won the tag team titles, then as the Blue Blazer was in an IC title program.
So I really don't consider it a depush or punishment at all. If anything I think Vince had of liked him more because he didn't leave for WCW with Bret.
Also he was going to be pushed as "The Game", but he died and Triple H took the title.
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I am glad somebody else agrees with me. I always say that Owen was next in line before HHH and I firmly believe that Summerslam was going to be Austin vs. Owen for the title and then from there HHH would get his push. It would have been awesome too, because we had seen Austin and Owen feud over the IC title but this would be for the WWF title which thinking about it is pretty cool. I am probably in the minority here but I actually wanted to see Austin face Chyna at Summerslam. I wish that Number One Contendors match was the week of Summerslam instead. I mean you could have had HHH win it the next night still and had Summerslam be Mankind getting his revenge on HHH for putting him on the shelf for a couple of months.