Can any moment live up to Hogan vs Rock

**James Steele** · 06-13-2010, 05:19 PM

There was a buildup of Jericho as champion. He did win in chickenshit heel ways, BUT HE WAS A CHICKENSHIT HEEL! I still remember going nuts when Jericho told off The Rock. The Rock was cutting a typical promo about how The Rock was going to beat Jericho and go on to WrestleMania yada yada. Jericho cut him off and cut a passionate promo about how he won't be walked over. He is the Undisputed Champion and etc. Yeah, he did the "evil ref" thing with Neil Patrick but it worked.

Then they had an excellent build-up to No Way Out where Jericho went over Stone Cold Steve Austin. Jericho was established as a heel champion, and then they logically fused with the Stephanie/HHH divorce storyline. Were there elements that were not great, yes, but there were far from the abomination so many of you make it out to be. Everybody knew Triple H was going to win, but that wasn't the point. If you bitched about every predictable WrestleMania main event...you'd bitch about almost every one of them. Then, we go to WrestleMania and they put on an awesome match. Yes, the crowd was worn out but Jericho and HHH put on a great match. I have never understood everybody shitting on the entire thing like it is equal to the Gimmick Battle Royal on the greatness scale. Nothing could have followed Rock/Hogan in terms of crowd involvement/etc. but it was worthy of a WrestleMania main event and there was no doubt going in that HHH/Y2J was the main event. Rock/Hogan shocked people with Hogan getting that reaction. The match was staring contests mixed in with typical punch exchanges and finisher paloozas. It certainly was a moment frozen in time, but you can't tell me a majority of wrestling fans around the world completely shit on Triple H coming back from career-threatening injuries to come back become Undisputed Champion.

06-13-2010, 05:19 PM	#11
James Steele TPWW's HHH Mark Since '04 Posts: 29,886	There was a buildup of Jericho as champion. He did win in chickenshit heel ways, BUT HE WAS A CHICKENSHIT HEEL! I still remember going nuts when Jericho told off The Rock. The Rock was cutting a typical promo about how The Rock was going to beat Jericho and go on to WrestleMania yada yada. Jericho cut him off and cut a passionate promo about how he won't be walked over. He is the Undisputed Champion and etc. Yeah, he did the "evil ref" thing with Neil Patrick but it worked. Then they had an excellent build-up to No Way Out where Jericho went over Stone Cold Steve Austin. Jericho was established as a heel champion, and then they logically fused with the Stephanie/HHH divorce storyline. Were there elements that were not great, yes, but there were far from the abomination so many of you make it out to be. Everybody knew Triple H was going to win, but that wasn't the point. If you bitched about every predictable WrestleMania main event...you'd bitch about almost every one of them. Then, we go to WrestleMania and they put on an awesome match. Yes, the crowd was worn out but Jericho and HHH put on a great match. I have never understood everybody shitting on the entire thing like it is equal to the Gimmick Battle Royal on the greatness scale. Nothing could have followed Rock/Hogan in terms of crowd involvement/etc. but it was worthy of a WrestleMania main event and there was no doubt going in that HHH/Y2J was the main event. Rock/Hogan shocked people with Hogan getting that reaction. The match was staring contests mixed in with typical punch exchanges and finisher paloozas. It certainly was a moment frozen in time, but you can't tell me a majority of wrestling fans around the world completely shit on Triple H coming back from career-threatening injuries to come back become Undisputed Champion.