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The difference with Rock-HHH in 2000 vs HHH-anyone now, is that Rock dominated HHH on TV every week (just about anyway). Sure he may have lost from time to time (and really the only times he lost there was massive amounts of interference), but on TV he was portrayed as being above HHH.
The way they do things now is that they'll build up a face, have him get the title from HHH, but then HHH will be positioned as the bigger star, and its uilt up like its just a matter of time beofre HHH gets the belt back. This was done with HBK, Goldberg, benoit and Orton.
So no new stars get created using that method. And they never will be as long as HHH keeps playing the game like that.
Did Benoit and Jericho and co. have a role in 2000? Sure, but it was a role that was far beneath what they were capable of. Then when they finally decided to put those guys in main events, the fans didn't accept it i n part because they had been positioned for so long as mid carders.
With RAW v SD we can all have our opinions, but the only thing to really go by is ratings. And the ratings show SD consistantly beats RAW week after week. And thats even with HHH doing things to make RAW seem like the superior show. My take on that is that a lot of people think like me, and are just sick of HHH in that top spot.
I woudl bet a lot of money that HHH will be around 10 years from now, never mind 5 years from now.
More thoughts in a few, I gotta eat.
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