Thread: There's never gonna be another title chase/title win like Mick Foley's first
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Old 10-18-2012, 05:55 PM   #36
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Totally forgot about this
I didn't. Just didn't think it quite counted, since his first reign was a sympathy reign akin to Rey Rey's after Eddie died.

As much as I love Christian getting the title (albeit for a wayyyy too brief a reign), it doesn't quite fit because the build wasn't as great as it could have been if it weren't for Edge's forced departure. I think that "one more match" thing could have been the gateway from constantly getting screwed as a face and could have been way over, instead of being used after his heel turn and basically making him look like a bitch. Also, it was after his "second reign", and the "finally won the big one" card had already been played.

In short, had the WWE not gone into panic mode, and been sooooo desperate to put ADR over huge, they might have been able to build Christian as "that guy" over a couple months. Even injured, they could have kept him on TV to cut promos and such.

And yes, Mark Henry was a guy who didn't win the big one... but his was a bit different. It was one "off" comment about his tenure versus never winning a world title that sent him on his way to destroy everyone and create the Hall of Pain. Difference being he wasn't an underdog that proved skeptics wrong as much as that flipped the switch into "unstoppable beast we always knew he could have been" mode.
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