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Old 12-08-2013, 04:29 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by AJ lee's View Post
Yeah. WM is the biggest ppv and Austin's return was at 2 throw away ppvs
In the Attitude Era throw away PPVs were routinely given huge matches. It was all part of Russo car crash theory of continue to bombard the audience constantly. I mean, come on, the Unforgiven 2000 event can hardly be called "Austin's return" since he didn't do anything other than walk around and ask people who hit him with a car. Meanwhile the Main Event was The Rock vs. a still fresh from returning Undertaker vs. Kane vs. Benoit. Plus it had E&C vs. Hardyz in a cage match at the peak of the TLC trio era, AND it boasted a match with the most over Superstar in WWE history; I am of course talking about Steve Blackman.

Meanwhile No Way Out 2003 had Austin coming back to have a joke bout with Eric Bischoff. Not really a return to form for the Rattlesnake. If anything I think principle selling point of the event was the emotionally disappointing Rock/Hogan II match, not Austin beating on Eazy E for a few minutes. That or people were dying to see the Steiner/HHH feud finally come to an end. Yeah let's say it was that, cause I know the body showdown get people's expectations wayyyyy up.

I get what you're trying to say, that Steve Austin's comebacks generated more hype than John Cena's comebacks do. And you're not wrong. But you're framing the issue using PPV buyrates during the single hottest period of wrestling against the buyrates of today's less than impressive market. WWE is not as popular as it was during the Attitude Era. John Cena is not as popular as Steve Austin. These are fairly universally accepted truths. So I guess my question now is, what was the point of bringing up Austin's return buys against Cena's? To reiterate a point we already know?
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