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Originally Posted by Xero Limit 126 Rey Mysterio would have lost his title months ago, and Kurt Angle would be the WWE champion.

Actually, I don't know about that. We were all pretty high on Rey right after Eddie's death and thought that - if they were ever going to push him - that was the time.

The problem was in how WWE handled it. Rey could have won the Rumble with the sympathy push, but he should have been booked completely different going into Mania.

If, rather than relying on divine intervention every week (and getting crushed by hosses in non-title matches), Rey had been booked like he had before Eddie's death, he could have become a credible champion by putting on great matches every week against guys like Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle (who wouldn't have been drafted to ECW if we'd been running things), and the members of King Booker's Court.

Play up the fact that he's an underdog, sure, but don't make that the basis of his character. And, for God's sake, don't have the World Champion lose to The Great Khali and Mark Henry cleanly on consecutive shows!

Of course, if the SmackDown bookers were anything like us, Henry would never have been brought back and Khali would never have been brought up, so it's all a big web of hypotheticals.