Yeah basically what Lock Jaw said.
I'm trying to remember the timeline, but I believe HHH and HBK traded the big gold belt in late 2002 after HHH was handed the title. The thinking was probably we need to establish this championship, and HHH was just hitting his prime as a main eventer around this time. The long term money match in 2003 was with Goldberg, and I believe when the time was right, they put the strap on Goldberg. Had they had HHH lose all the time prior to that feud, it wouldn't have meant as much. And dont people on here hate when heel champs lose like crazy?
That said, I wasn't a fan of some of the language used in the program with Booker. Similar to how I said I wasn't a fan of the use of Charlotte's brothers' death in the Paige-Charlotte build. I really wish WWE would take the high road as much as possible in their angles in order to not alienate any would be viewers. Obviously whats done is done in the past, but going forward I wish they would keep it classy.
Back to Booker getting beat soundly, I have absolutely no problem with that. Booker is a nice hand, but he was only ever world champion because of a lack of depth and lawsuits. He's a classic B+ player. But not in the sense that WWE wrote TV about Daniel Bryan being a B+ player, and pushed him like an A+ player, Booker was actually a B+.
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