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There could have been a million things there.
I believe if WWF were smart, they would have taken DDP then. They should have took him out of his WCW contract (they did have interest in him back then as well - as did he) and brought him in for the angle. It would have been perfect. Page and Austin had a history with each other going back quite a while, and it would have been cool to let Page play off an angle where he was tired of hearing so much about Austin being the top wrestler in the world, Austin being so great, etc.. - while he was a Champion over in WCW.
They also could have went for Jarrett, who also had a history with Austin going back to Memphis / Texas. Bill Gunn was yet another option, as like him or not, he did put on some solid matches with Austin. I mention them (and again, there could be others) for the fact that:
*I'm keeping it under the assumption that the driver wasn't wearing a wig, or did not dye his hair to have it blonde at the time he hit Austin....and also because...
*The angle was done to not only sideline Austin, but to create a new main event guy, which didn't work for Rikishi. It would have worked for any of the guys above - IF - it were done properly. Nothing against Rikishi, because I do like him, but he's not main eventer.
On a side note, honestly - I had really wished Owen Hart was still alive to be used for the angle. I definitely could have seen that being an angle that would've shot Owen to the top of the card, and he would have made that work 110%. That wasn't an option, obviously, but I just wanted to mention that I would have loved to have seen that.
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