>2000 was the hottest year for WWE >these two were feuding

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>>3124196
Based Rattlesnake put the entire company on his back and saved it from dying while HGH was making dick jokes and Rocky was just starting to get over

>>3124196
Paul, you're never gonna be in the conversation with Rocky and Stone Cold.

>>3124536
That image is literally the spectrum of dime vs anti-dime drawing

>>3124536
kek OP BTFO

>>3126358
hehe stay cucked phil

Raw did all it's highest ratings in 1999, which suggests the business was hotter then

>>3124196
The peak was caused because of what came before it to draw interest in the product. If anything, it started going downhill when Triple H consistently became the heavyweight title holder during his reign of terror.

Despite Triple H's average talents (except ring psychology, he really is good at that), he excelled largely because of, believe it or not, being in the right place at the right time.

Sorry Test.

>>3127282
PPV numbers were the highest ever for WWF in 2000 and the company made the most money in their history, one good rating for Raw in 1999 doesn't make it the bigger year

It's amazing that the one thing that has stayed consistent over the years is the WWEs inability to effectively use their talent correctly. The larger than life characters that have been effective at drawing dimes in the past were products of the wrestlers own creativity, with some tweaks here and there by management. It's a shame that as time went on, the WWE outside of NXT has been taking away more and more creative tools from their wrestlers...sorry "sports entertainers/superstars" and just hands them a shitty script to memorize.

Viva the Brand!

>>3127288
>it started going downhill when Triple H consistently became the heavyweight title holder
No. It started going downhill late 2003 when the Internet became more prominent in the world and the Internet smark crowds started taking over wrestling wanting to see vanilla midgets like Benoit and Eddie at the top.

Think if the Internet and smarks were around during Hogans prime, those fags would've gave Hogan hell like they do Roman Reigns now.

>>3127290
WCW was dead by then so WWF got a boost from those viewers.
>>3127304
>It started going downhill late 2003
Buddy, get a fucking clue.

>>3127312
WCW was dead in 1999 also, so what's your point?

>>3127321
SuperBrawl in '99 did close to 500k buys. SuperBrawl '00 did 70k.

>>3127321
WCW in 1999 was still doing great

>>3127321
>WCW was dead in 1999

Jesus Christ stop commenting on things you know nothing about you underage redditor

>>3127304
Why don't you look up the definition of downhill. If the peak was in 2000, what's the only place left for the company to go if it doesn't stay at the top?

>>3127304
And by the way, it STARTED going downhill before Wrestlemania 18 with the Invasion angle. If you're talking about when it started sucking significantly, that would be when Kurt Angle left the company and, more specifically, after the Benoit murders.

>>3127344
It started to get awful the moment they had no competition, After WM 17 they just stopped putting effort into everything

>>3127346
You can literally see the shows fall apart before your eyes during those months after WM17. It just dies in months. It was clear they had no idea what to do and the shows were just losing momentum every week. By the fall, and by the time the Invasion ends, the company is so radically different it's shocking.

1999 did better ratings

even while gone, Austin helped in 2000 by getting two monster buyrates for B Shows (Backlash and Unforgiven)

Backlash 2000 - 675,000 buys (HHH v Rock, Austin enforcer)
Judgement Day 2000 - 420,000 buys (HHH v Rock)
King of the Ring 2000 - 475,000 buys (HHH/Vince/Shane v Rock/Taker/Kane)

HHH and Rock still needed based Austin to draw the dimes duing their feud

>>3124196
The business was so hot because of what Stone Cold had done. It's kinda like how Republican presidents take credit for a strong economy after 8 years of a Democratic president.

>>3127365
Austin and Rock built the machine. Triple H destroyed it.

>>3127361
Funny how you left out the 2000 Summer Slam buys

>>3127369
>Triple H destroyed it
You mean Jericho? The day he won both belts WWE went to shit, and this was months before Gaycth came back from his quad injury.

>>3127371
Austin did more in '98 and '99 with much stiffer PPV competition

>>3127377
Company was going down the tubes by December '99. It was finished. Jericho's joke of a title "run" didn't sway the company in either direction but Triple H closing WM18 to crickets sure did

>>3127379
>closing WM18 to crickets sure did
Don't pretend Jericho would've got a pop if he retained at WM18, his trash title reign proved everything HHH said about him right.

>>3127371

Ok fine


Summerslam 1998 700,000 (Austin v Undertaker)
Summerslam 1998 600,000 (Austin v HHH)
Summerslam 2000 570,000 (Rock v Angle v HHH)

Whats funny is that Summerslam (the 2nd or 3rd biggest PPV of the year) 2000 only drew 570K yet the very next month it was outdrawn by a B grade PPV Unforgiven 2000 did 605,000 buys because Austin was there.

Face it Austin >>>>> Rock.

>>3127365
There's a big difference between immediate future of 1-2 years and 8 years. Was Bret Hart taking credit for WWEs success in the late 90s? Nah nigga.

>>3127385
Never said Jericho was a top guy, but don't act like Jericho wasn't portrayed as third fiddle behind Triple H and Stephanie. What's funnier is Triple H came back to that "pop" and he destroyed any interest fans had in him within 2 months.

>>3127386
bet he wishes never spoke about the summerslam buyrate now

out drawn by unforgiven kek, based Austin

>>3127385
You're naive if you think Jericho was ever given the chance as anything more than a transitional champion. He was threatening to leave the company if Vince didn't throw a big reward his way in some way. The plan was never to give Jericho a chance. Anyone with half a brain of wrestling knowledge knows this. Also, a guy like Jericho doesn't need a championship to shine. Trips did. Why do you think most of his storylines were no deeper than, "I am the game uh, I am the champion uh."

>>3127392
>"pop"
That was a POP faggot.

>>3127399
I have no idea why I put that in quotes.

>>3127346
I'd argue there were some awesome periods during the Ruthless Aggression era that are always forgotten by people for some reason. Kurt Angles run, Lesnars rise to stardom, the Smackdown Six, Eddie and Benoit given a chance to shine in the main event, Eugene...

>>3127398
>Why do you think most of his storylines were no deeper than, "I am the game uh, I am the champion uh."
HHH was in the deepest storyline of the AE when he set Austin up to get ran over.

>>3127406
Basically everything Heyman touched during the period until his departure from the company when their fake ass ECW came around was still decent.

>>3127406
There are always good moments, good matches, etc. but that's not the point. Even now they have some good matches every once in a while, but it still fucking sucks.

>>3127406
there is awesome moments every year

even in 2017 moments involving Braun get me interested in watching again, but during the monday night wars something awesome happened every week, not every 3 months

big difference

>>3127407
You mean the storyline the writers didn't plan out and Triple H came in and hijacked at the very end?

Yes that was great. It was so impactful, they united as a tag team shortly after.

>>3127413
You were obviously not watching smackdown on a regular basis in the mid 2000s.

>>3127418
That wasn't going to satisfy anyone that grew up during the Monday Night Wars. The MNW ruined wrestling for everyone.