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Old 09-02-2005, 12:00 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Rob
Wasn't he? When WWF started to turn around again in 1997, Bret Hart was the focal point of the programming and WWF champion for 4 months. He then went to WCW and was on their TV everyweek while they were doing huge numbers.
Those are valid points, which I counter with:

a) Bret may have been the champion when the boom started, but it wasn't Hart 3:16 shirts that I saw in my high school cafeteria. And people weren't raising the Hart Family Eyebrow.

b) WCW was already doing tremendous ratings when they signed Bret. And they continued to do tremendous ratings after his retirement.

And, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that either promotion was better off without him. I only mentioned Bret by name because of this comment:

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Originally Posted by Vastardikai
I would like to point out that the last boom period occurred when Shawn Micheals WASN'T on TV every week.
And the last boom period didn't hit its stride in 1998 after Bret Hart left WWF.
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