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I agree with James Steele there. William Regal and Brian Kendrick are two other guys that only have themselves to blame for de-railed pushes. I was absolutely certain that William Regal was en route to becoming WWE Champion before he got suspended for 60 days while being the King and General Manager of RAW. I mean, it all lined up perfectly:
* Triple H had reportedly pushed for Regal to be moved to RAW and get a push due to his good relationship with him stemming from Regal sort of mentoring him earlier in their careers.
* Regal had complete control over RAW and was the most dominant character on RAW in 2008.
* Triple H was the WWE Champion and CM Punk, who had the Money in the Bank briefcase at the time was a babyface who was also a protoge of Regal's and had just been bested by him in the finals of the King of the Ring tournament.
I was 90% certain that the plan was for Regal to book himself into a one-sided match against Triple H (something where Triple H would have to face three guys before-hand, or a match where Triple H would lose the title if he got disqualified, but Regal had no limits on what he could do), and Regal would use his power to make sure Triple H never got another title shot. But the one thing Regal could not do would be to prevent CM Punk from attacking him randomly with a referee in tow and dethroning Regal. Hell, it might have even been Triple H who beat the living shit out of Regal and then Punk comes with with his briefcase to capitalise.
In fact, creatively, 2008 was probably one of my most joyous times as a wrestling fan. WrestleMania XXIV was a pretty decent PPV, with Edge and The Undertaker's feud being pretty amazing, CM Punk got his due, Chris Jericho came back and ruled the world as a heel and you had two of my favourites in Regal and Kendrick getting major pushes, and unfortunately both of them fucking it up.
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