salz4life
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Post by salz4life on Jun 1, 2023 9:57:44 GMT -5
I said 7 because when I was a kid and heard "7 times World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race", I used to always think that was bada**. When Flair starting going 8, 9, 10, etc. I thought less of it, even when I knew Flair was great..
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msc
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Post by msc on Jun 1, 2023 10:16:11 GMT -5
Depends on the reign themselves. DDP had 3 World title runs and none of them meant anything due to WCW Hot shot booking, sadly. Bret Hart had 7 and 5 of them were legit. Many CVs are a bit padded with useless reigns. I don't mind the odd short reign (especially if nothing has happened in a while) but if you have 3 or more week or less reigns it looks less good. imo.
Also where the Atittude era went wrong with hot potatoes was Summerslam 99-January 2000. What should have happened was HHH won the belt at Summerslam 99, then held it till the Rock won. Instead we got Austin dropping it to Foley (politics), Foley dropping it to HHH, HHH dropping it to Vince McMahon (WHHHHY?), HHH winning it back, HHH losing it to Big Show (for no reason), HHH winning it back, Rock finally winning it.
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Celgress
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Celgress on Jun 3, 2023 13:34:11 GMT -5
5, IMHO
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Jun 3, 2023 14:32:23 GMT -5
There needs to start being more of a focus on number of defenses. Oh, you're champion for 1000 days? Not many defenses. You've been champion 16 times? So you lost 16 times too? Reminds me of how PWI used to criticize Hogan for not defending it overseas and for the amount here too. I've always felt the same. I liked when JBL would continuously shit on Dean Ambrose' US title reign back in 2013-14. It was a long reign, but Ambrose rarely ever defended the belt. On commentary JBL would say things like "if I defended the WWE title as often as Ambrose defends the US title I would still be champion!" |
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tirtefaa
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Post by tirtefaa on Jun 3, 2023 14:54:37 GMT -5
I said 7 because when I was a kid and heard "7 times World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race", I used to always think that was bada**. When Flair starting going 8, 9, 10, etc. I thought less of it, even when I knew Flair was great.. Flair's became obnoxious around '85 when it got to the point he was going to be THE champion, and they would only breakup a reign to throw the fans a bone for a couple weeks, only to send the belt back to Flair. This persisted into WCW when there were clear opportunities to put over someone like Lex. |
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