Thread: Was it wrong to turn Austin at WM17
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Old 04-03-2021, 08:14 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Lord Gertner of TPWW View Post
See, I don't get what was so bad about it. Could you explain your position. Just curious.
It killed the Austin character as he had no strong faces to work against in the immediate aftermath of the turn and people, at large, had no interest in paying to boo him just because the company said they were supposed to. It watered things down in terms of the Alliance because everyone in that group had to play second fiddle to him even though he was clearly a WWE guy and it was just one more pile of dirt on top of the WCW guys. Then when the company tried to reverse course after Survivor Series and pull a Jedi mind trick as if the previous 7 months hadn't happened putting Austin back in the role of 'rebellious face getting on Vince's nerves' it fell flat because the people knew it was B.S. Jim Cornette can explain this better than I can because he has a great analysis on the subject but the gist of it is that there was really no good business reason to do it. It'd have been like turning Hogan in 1988 and also having Savage a heel.
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