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Originally Posted by Gorgeous Dale Newstead
Which once again is very circular. We have al discussed how everyone politics at the top, but we are discussing when it has hurt business and when it has been most egregious. The 5 star wrestler bit is nonsense, you are generalizing my statements because you think all of the iwc is the same. Take Nash, I could give a shit about his politicking because he was head Booker, the company has themselves to blame and Nash was just making himself top dog, and it's how hes always been.
And you keep going into this whole thing about whether Bret was right or wrong,and that's not what I'm talking about, I'm saying there were extenuating factors.
Hogans politicking at its best was good for business, at its worst, a desperate vindictive selfish man, doing desperate. Vindictive, selfish things that didn't even really benefit himself in the long run.
Same can be said for some others, but his often come across as the most ludicrous when k poking back, no matter what Dave Meltzer says. And I often defend Hogan.
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I hear you, and I hear your opinion, I just come at it a little differently.
My thing is you cant go back and re-write history. You dont know who was right when they were playing politics. I am 100% against Bret Hart in the whole Montreal scenario, but at the end of the day, Bret's refusal to do business and Vince's decision to counter that sort of made Vince the star that catapulted an era in wrestling. So at the end of the day, I guess Bret did the right thing. My thing is nobody knows who was right, who played politics the right way. People bring up Brutus all the time, but few people bring up that Owen was going nowhere before Bret got on top, Bulldog was stuck in the mid card, and the Anvil probably shouldnt have had a job in the mid 90s. Its not a coincidence that much of Bret's runs on top revolved around those guys. But few people put Bret in the same category as Hogan when it comes to playing politics. In my opinion, he's just as big of a politician. And I think Austin trumped both of them the more I hear stories about Austin.