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Originally Posted by Fox
On the other hand, Big Show has been so poorly used pretty much throughout his career that putting the World Title on him wouldn't really mean anything, and it wouldn't do anything to up the respect level of the World Heavyweight Championship title. The only time he was really being treated as a threat was when he was the ECW Champion and Paul Heyman was behind the book. You would think that it would be really easy to make a 7 foot, 500 pound monster like Big Show into a believable unstoppable monster, but nobody has done it right and protected him the way he should be protected. Instead he's been used, much like Kane, to put over other people who are on their way up (John Cena especially). If Show had been protected throughout his career the way that someone like Undertaker has been protected, or even Triple H and Batista were protected, then it would certainly be a different story.
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I have always thought that Show was more valuable as a mysterious unstoppable monster than a normal dude who just happened to have thyroid issues. Yeah, he'd be two-dimensional, but at least people would care about his matches.
Mind you, for a while there Undertaker was wrestling pretty constantly and losing to Austin, Mankind and Kane. It didn't tarnish his reputation to be defeated by guys who were booked as tough as him. If Show only lost 4-5 RAWs/Smackdowns a year and lost 40% of his PPV matches he'd be protected enough for people to care when he gets taken off his feet.