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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
Just because HBK's title reign happened to conflict with the birth of the NWO and WCW's uprising doesn't mean HBK's title reing was not a great one. Too many new fans didn't care about WRESTLING in '96. Those days were pretty much gone. As far as WRESTLING goes, HBK's title reing was brilliant.
If you're going to bash JBL's reign because he doesn't put on good wrestling matches with clean finishes, then you can't ignore the same factors when judging Michael's reign.
During his 8 month reign, he had two great defenses against the British Bulldog, an entertaining match with Vader following a great 2 month feud and a match with Mick Foley that Mick calls one of the best matches he's ever had. Not to mention the fact that his title reign began at WM XXII in one of the greatest matches of all time.
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HBK was never a draw, it had nothing to do with the NWO and so on. HBK's big title win at Mania featured people walking out on his title win, a feat duplicated by his Kliq buddy 6 years later.
He did have some great matches during his run, so its just a matter of how you view success. In the ring; good run, out of the ring; terrible.
Nash's was worse than all of them though.