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Originally Posted by The Naitch
How come he didn't want to have a program against Austin? You'd figure that that feud would make both guys look good
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It would have, but it was typical HHH.
If you recall the PPV before Mania 2001 they had HHH beat Austin in what some might have called to that point the best match in WWE history (arguable point obviously). With the Austin heel turn and HHH getting more over with the fans, it would have made sense to turn Hunter, and since he got the win over Austin a month before Mania he would make the perfect challenger. However, the problem was they didn't want to take the title off Austin, so in order to stay in the top angle without having to do any real JOBs he decided to stay heel and they did the whole 2 man power trip deal.
Its possible they still planned to go to the HHH-Austin program at some point (maybe Mania 02?) but as he's done many times since he got out of doing JOBs.