2002 (after Austin left)
>Have the face of the company on your brand
>Paul Heyman is head writer
>Consistently BTFO Raw every week
>Attendance skyrockets
>Ratings steadily rise and beat Raw on multiple occasions
>Considered best wrestling show on television
2003/2004
>Face of the company jumps ship to Raw
>Paul Heyman is no longer head writer
>Quality of show decreases every week
>Lose most of draws in mid-year draft
>Get Raw's rejects in return
>Career lower-mid carder is forced into main event scene and is made WWE Champion
>Attendance & Ratings plummet
Sound familiar?
>>3088922
>2002 (after Austin left)
>Have the face of the company on your brand
Who are you referring to?
>>3089018
The Rock
>>3089018
Eugene
>lose most draws in mid year draft
After the rock and austin no-one drew - the ruthless jannetty era caused the largest ratings decline in history
>>3089044
Problem is they desperately pushed Triple H as the face of the company. Rock really wasn't a Smackdown guy during Heyman's booking run. They had maybe a few weeks of overlap before Rock left after SS02.
>>3090375
Blame Triple H.
>>3090596
Triple H was the biggest draw they had which doesn't reflect well on Brocketty, Angletty and the rest of the ruthless jannetties who got pushed 2002-2005
>>3090627
There's a difference between being a draw, and being pushed relentlessly. HHHetty was the catalyst to send the WWE into the downward spiral it's been on for the past 15 years.
>>3088922
>Career lower-mid carder is forced into main event scene and is made WWE Champion
?
>>3091167
Cena
>>3091167
Eddie and/or JBL
>>3090627
he was a draw to some degree but he buried a bunch of people during that time, people that might have drawn money with better booking
since he was awarded the title in 2002 he was in EVERY single RAW PPV title match until he left due to injury Vengeance 2005 (only exception being the HHH/HBK HIAC which main evented over Benoit/Kane)
fans were sick of him
notice things got better when he actually decided to make a star (Batista) and step aside?
>>3088922
2003/2004/2005
> Have HHH pushed as FotC
> Ultimate smark heel
2005/2006
> Vince finds new boyfriend to push as FotC
> HHH gets cheered over the FotC despite being smark enemy no 1. for many years
Gee, it's not like history repeats itself