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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Sept 27, 2022 18:03:31 GMT -5
Hogan was massively over during this period. Like... it's kinda forgotten, but the fans basically turned him face. And Flair wanted to be heel, because that's how he was more comfortable.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 27, 2022 18:24:52 GMT -5
While they did lose a ton of fans announcing Foley’s title win, it’s generally not brought up that most of them turned back after they saw Foley win.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Sept 27, 2022 18:44:57 GMT -5
While I didn't personally enjoy the fingerpoke, this is just another example of WWE alternate history. It was not the worst thing ever. I also never liked babyface Wolfpack, so this was actually an interesting development even if the execution annoyed me. Eh, I'm as critical of the WWE's fast and loose revisionist nonsense, but the fingerpoke being known as a huge disaster is by no means exclusive to them. It wasn't a terrible idea on paper, but tit was a big piece of the company's downfall when you factor in execution, the Foley thing, and the aftermath being a smoldering mess It was definitely a disaster, but WWE's revisionism is more in how they treat it. Show what happened, then pull up a text card being like "Nitro never beat Raw in the ratings again" to try and correlate the two. They aren't wrong about it being bad, but they do tend to exaggerate it into being this thing where every turned out right after it happened and never came back. But WCW's last ratings victory had been October 26th 1998. That's the kind of stuff they exaggerated.
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