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When Daniel Bryan was in the midst of the "weak link" storyline last Summer, Michael Cole consistently referred to it as a result of "[blank] conditioning," a psychological term I'd never heard before. I've been trying to figure out what they were calling it, but NO amount of clever Google...

Anyway, to succinctly sum up my take on Austin and Rock's positions in WWE history/lore: Stone Cold Steve Austin = The Beatles of the Attitude Era The Rock = The Rolling Stones of the Attitude Era

James Greiga, I don't want to get into an internet flame war with you, especially since most of what we're alleging is subjective. However, I have to highlight this: I'm not sure what your sources are, but everyone from Punk to WWE themselves have said that Punk was the first superstar in 5-6...

Austin has no "official" affiliation with the company, but he's on good terms with them and is basically a phone call away, provided that he's given a good angle/reason to be an onscreen presence. 2011-2013 was spent putting over Rock at every opportunity. First of all, I don't count Edge...

Bryan's "Occupy Raw" stunt did seem forced and ham-fisted. However, I think it's WWE's way of putting into the storyline what happened in real life: fans consistently let it be known that anything less than Daniel Bryan in the main event of Wrestlemania was unacceptable, and as a result (with...

No one. Hogan is good for occasional "Hey, remember Hulk Hogan? Holy shit, here he is!" nostalgia appearances. His usefulness as a regular onscreen character of any sort--wrestler, manager, even general manager (at least on a long-term basis)--is pretty much nil.

The funny thing is: the 1997-2002 period in WWE (basically the Attitude Era) was a time where WWE not only actively ignored their own history as a company, they routinely minimized it, mocked it, and shit on it. Outside of Wrestlemania video packages, history before 1997 didn't exist. It...

Top 20. It's hard to rate wrestlers. With other sports, it's simply a matter of "How effective were they in leading the team to victory?" Here, you have to take so many factors into account: drawing power, staying power, in-ring ability, mic skills, connection with audience, merchandise...

From a business standpoint, Bryan vs. HHH should be a schmozz of some sort. Maybe HHH beats Bryan down, getting disqualified and weakening him for the main event; maybe it's a countout; maybe HHH wins via sledgehammer, then Vince/Hogan/whoever reverses it; maybe it's a double-countout that turns...

Without knowing the inner-workings of WWE, it's impossible to say. But it would appear very likely that yes, it has helped. WWE always seems to be a few years behind the curve, and they like to give their With WWE going in the direction of Punk vs. the Authority/HHH, it was apparent that Punk...

Do they favor Austin over Rock? They spent 2011 to 2013 jerking the Rock off at every opportunity. He got a birthday tribute episode of Raw with celebrities and a video package, he beat the WWE's top two starts of the past 7-8 years (John Cena and CM Punk), won the fucking WWE Championship...

First of all, to me, it still seems like he has a massive amount of supporters, and is the second-most popular performer in the company at present, behind Cena. I would argue that this was true even before CM Punk's departure. The only thing that's hindering him (and a number of wrestler's have...