reliving BATB 2000

**NormanSmiley** · 02-27-2014, 02:02 PM

When it happened live 14 years ago I loved it simply because of the cutting edge stuff with russo and Hogan, and to see a fresh face get the title.

watched it again last night and I'm wondering what you guys think looking back

Russo pretty much gets in the ring and tells everyone hey its all fake and I wanted to give you a better show but Hogan wouldn't let me (meanwhile every match sucked) and exposes the business that played up to the smarks.

so that got me to wondering on here these days there are those championing that the WWE doesn't listen to the 5% of the guys in their moms basement streaming PPVs without paying for them who all clam they can write a better show that doesn't involve "cena wins". Did Russo actually do that, didn't he actually let the smarks have their show and how did that work out ratings wise in hindsight?

side note: I forgot how much the booker/Jarrett match went and if you could have booked that to prove your point as Russo would you have used chair shots and ref bumps to give booker the title or have him gone over 100% clean?

02-27-2014, 02:02 PM	#1
NormanSmiley shisen sucks all the cock Posts: 1,617	reliving BATB 2000 When it happened live 14 years ago I loved it simply because of the cutting edge stuff with russo and Hogan, and to see a fresh face get the title. watched it again last night and I'm wondering what you guys think looking back Russo pretty much gets in the ring and tells everyone hey its all fake and I wanted to give you a better show but Hogan wouldn't let me (meanwhile every match sucked) and exposes the business that played up to the smarks. so that got me to wondering on here these days there are those championing that the WWE doesn't listen to the 5% of the guys in their moms basement streaming PPVs without paying for them who all clam they can write a better show that doesn't involve "cena wins". Did Russo actually do that, didn't he actually let the smarks have their show and how did that work out ratings wise in hindsight? side note: I forgot how much the booker/Jarrett match went and if you could have booked that to prove your point as Russo would you have used chair shots and ref bumps to give booker the title or have him gone over 100% clean?