Which is more than we can say for AA who never won the big title under any circumstance. You can say Christian was the big fish in a small pond but at least he was a big fish.
I never said that Christian was a "big fish" in a small pond. I said that Christian was a "Big star", quotations meant as sarcasm. He failed multiple times to win the NWA Championship from "stars" such as Monty Brown, Ron Killings, and Jeff Jarrett, before he won it on his 237th attempt.
Speaking of big, Christian has never been able to hang with bigger, more powerful wrestlers. Cena, Batista, Sheamus, Mark Henry and Big Show have all dominated Christian. His title wins have come against smaller wrestlers, or in a ladder match. Christian has more championships then Henry and Sheamus, so would he be able to beat them in this tournament too?
Anderson fits the mold of the power wrestler like the above to a "T". It's not a stretch to suggest that Christian wouldn't fare much different against Anderson then he did against the rest.
That is all conjecture, we have no idea how Christian would have done in AA's era nor would we know what AA would have accomplished in Christian's era. The only thing we do know is that Christian has won multiple world titles, while has not.
By DQ, in a ladder match with a distraction, and defeating Jeff Jarrett in his 34th try. Titles aren't the only thing to consider here, which is the mistake that you're making here. How the two would actually
match up in the ring against one another is a factor. Christian's track record against power wrestlers like Anderson doesn't bode well for him here.
But he still won titles, you can discredit his title reigns as much as you like but he climbed to the top of the mountain to do it.
I'm not discrediting his reigns, I'm simply stating the facts. Yes, he climbed to the top of the mountain, kudos to him. But the way he was booked as a champion was as a joke, a wrestler who couldn't win the title without interference or a lame DQ.
And if you would argue that Edge or "Christian's Coalition" would be there to help him here, the Horseman would more then offset them, don't you think?
You can speculate all you like, but objectively looking at their accomplishments alone you can see Christian was able to do more on his own than AA ever did.
And there's the problem with your argument. Your arguing his title wins alone, not the actual manner in which he accomplished them, his failure in defending them, or his track record against wrestlers of Anderson's guild.
And with all due respect to Christian, accomplishments don't mean much when you're facing the type of wrestler you simply can't beat.
Arn Anderson is such a wrestler.
