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Personally, and I'm looking at this as being 10-15 years old, I never watched the WWF for Shawn back then. That's the god honest truth. I will say I loved watching the Rockers, I loved his feud with Jannetty, but after that, I really never liked watching him anymore after that. His heel run I found a little entertianing, but his babyface run was just a total turn off for me. People rate that Mania 10 Ladder match so high, but back then, the highlight of the night was seeing Bret win the Title from Yoko.
Bret's great feuds with Owen, Backlund, Lawler, Yoko, Perfect, Mountie, Austin and all of his matches that he had with guys like Hakushi, 123 Kid, Pierre L, Doink entertianed the shit out of me. Bret was fighting everyone for the World Title when he first had it and I thought that was just quality. His feuds all had great stories and emotion attached to them, which I thought Shawn's lacked.
I thought Shawn had some excellent matches and all, but something was missing with everything else. His promos, his storylines, his character, his constant leaving and coming back.
When he got to DX Shawn, he was much better though. He had great matches and he was a great entertainer with his character. He really got under your skin here.
But 94-97 HBK was just not my cup of tea at the time at all.
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