[AEW on TNT]

It seemed so off lol Triple H walking around with the IC title and taking orders from Austin, Austin acting like a wuss and acting all chummy. How did anyone take this ish seriously LOL ?

Made no sense at all from a creative stand point.

 

[RunaroundMan]

No, I struggled with it. Especially since HHH tried to murder Austin by running him over as well. I love Austin, but the his turn at WM 17 started the downswing in wresting. It was all down hill from there.

 

[Freelancer]

I wasn't a fan. WWE was losing steam at this point.

 

[SuperstarSlyme]

They should've booked Austin as a tweeener coming out of WM17. Have Vince help him in the main event then turn on him too and send the Texas fans home happy. You could still have him destroy Rock in the Steel Cage and have Austin feud with everybody tapping more into his 96/97 version instead of his 98/00 version of his character.

 

[.christopher.]

I loved it. Austin and HHH destroying the roster was berry, berry entertaining. Shame Vince didn't appear much with them throughout their run, though.

 

[SuperstarSlyme]

Only thing was th me is HHH just took off 18 months of your career and now you guys are Tag Team Champs ? It really made no sense character wise for either or to team with the other

 

[cai1981]

It sucked because

1) There were no guys on their level to compete with. Sorry, but at that time Undertaker was not on that top tier level.

2) It made absolutely no sense for Austin to align with the guy who arranged for him to be hit by a car....and for HHH to align with Austin who dumped him inside a car from a forklift. When HHH showed up on the RAW after WM 17, he should have challenged Austin citing he beat him at No Way Out and not joined forces with him.

3) HHH was an alpha male after splitting from Shawn Michaels. It was out of character seeing him be side by side and playing second fiddle tk Austin, the WWF Champion....ESPECIALLY since HHH was obsessed with being WWF Champion.

 

[cjpowerbomb83]

Put the two biggest heels at the time to control the titles - Like the Horsemen except halved

 

[AEW on TNT]

No, I struggled with it. Especially since HHH tried to murder Austin by running him over as well. I love Austin, but the his turn at WM 17 started the downswing in wresting. It was all down hill from there.

I thought it was dumb as hell, as far as the downswing, it was caused by a variety of factors.

• Fall 2000 Raw moving from power house USA network to a POS TNN
• Stephanie becomes head of creative Fall 2000
• Stupid storylines like Rikishi vs Austin
• WCW being bought by WWF
• The Rock taking a break to film the Scorpion King
• Austin's heel turn
• Botched Invasion

In general the wrestling boom was winding down before we even hit 2001

 

[SuperstarSlyme]

I thought it was dumb as hell, as far as the downswing, it was caused by a variety of factors.

• Fall 2000 Raw moving from power house USA network to a POS TNN
• Stephanie becomes head of creative Fall 2000
• Stupid storylines like Rikishi vs Austin
• WCW being bought by WWF
• The Rock taking a break to film the Scorpion King
• Austin's heel turn
• Botched Invasion

In general the wrestling boom was winding down before we even hit 2001

hit the nail right on the head I remember all these events as a kid fake turned me off not like off wrestlinng completely but def went from mark to smark after those times.

 

[The Golden Shovel]

I always felt it was to cover Austin's downturn in ring. HHH was the work horse of the duo.

 

[SuperstarSlyme]

I always felt it was to cover Austin's downturn in ring. HHH was the work horse of the duo.

coulda just limited his ring work some and have him interrupt random matches raise hell, attack a whole bunch of people its austin especially in the beginning of 01you really just need him on screen

 

[Daniel Stewart]

Yeah, it's still really seeing those two as a tag team over 20 years later, when they both tried to kayfabe kill each other.

 

[Charzhino]

It sucked because

1) There were no guys on their level to compete with. Sorry, but at that time Undertaker was not on that top tier level.

Disagree. This was badass and got a huge pop. Brothers of Destruction were top level then.

 

[The People's H2O]

It seemed so off lol Triple H walking around with the IC title and taking orders from Austin, . How did anyone take this ish seriously LOL ?

Made no sense at all from a creative stand point.

Which is why the original plan was for HHH to turn babyface and go after Austin, but that didn't happen due to the injury.

Austin acting like a wuss and acting all chummy

That happened later. The first 2 months of Austin's heel run was pretty solid. Reminded me of his 1996-1997 run.

 

[Dr. Jones]

HHH wouldn't turn face because he knew a freshly turned top heel in Austin would leave him laying a lot. HHH is not a fan of that, so the fans had to endure months and months of Austin and HHH leaving everyone laying.

 

[ryanschuette]

HHH wouldn't turn face because he knew a freshly turned top heel in Austin would leave him laying a lot. HHH is not a fan of that, so the fans had to endure months and months of Austin and HHH leaving everyone laying.

Exactly. Triple H and Stephanie both knew this is what would happen. If Trips didn't tear his quad he probably would have turned face anyways eventually.

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[RunaroundMan]

Disagree. This was badass and got a huge pop. Brothers of Destruction were top level then.

As an Austin fan I still don't like this time period. But now years on I find it so funny when they're all fired up to fight and they just dive outta the ring when Kane and Taker get on the apron. Such chicken shit stuff 😂

 

[Greatsthegreats]

it reeked of desperation and lacked sense but it was still pretty cool, plus it helped put midcarders like Benoit, Jericho and the hardys in the limelight

 

[Thanks12]

HHH wouldn't turn face because he knew a freshly turned top heel in Austin would leave him laying a lot. HHH is not a fan of that, so the fans had to endure months and months of Austin and HHH leaving everyone laying.

I'm surprised Austin would even let that happen. During that time Austin was the bigger star. Nothing HHH could do.