10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2002 - The Ladder Match Problem! Vince Russo Returned! Business Fell Off BADLY! Ruthless Aggression Was A Myth?!
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🗓️ 12 August 2023
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Shawn Michaels made his in-ring return at SummerSlam 2002. "Officially," anyway. Andy Murray presents 10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2002...
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| 0:20.3 | WWE fans generally have pretty fond memories of 2002, from Shawn Michaels' in-ring return |
| 0:28.7 | and the first elimination chamber to the week-to-week awesomeness that was the Smackdown 6, there |
| 0:34.2 | certainly was a lot to love. |
| 0:36.4 | WWE, the organisation, doesn't share that same opinion. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Andy from What Culture, and here are 10 things you didn't know about WWE in 2002. |
| 0:46.7 | 10. |
| 0:47.7 | The Rock was always a bit gotten to. |
| 0:50.9 | As I record this in June 2023, the Rock is in a time-tested downfall arc in his Hollywood |
| 0:57.0 | career. |
| 0:58.0 | He'll make a comeback, that's how this cycle works, but the fans are turning on him, |
| 1:02.4 | and he's effectively getting same old chants like he might off in wrestling. |
| 1:06.8 | He might even be coursing dangerously close to becoming a bit of a laughing stock, ruining |
| 1:11.5 | his cool guy image with defensive mental gymnastics to spin black Adam's black box office |
| 1:16.9 | performance into some kind of positive. |
| 1:19.5 | But maybe we should've seen this coming. |
| 1:22.0 | When Rocky was booed against Brock Lesnar at Somerslam 2002, Dave Meltzer wrote in the |
| 1:26.7 | Wrestling Observer Newsletter that even though people in WWE, including Rock himself, |
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