| I wasn't comparing Brock to Goldberg, but rather that he's built on the "Goldberg Model" - he started off as a monster who squashed people at random and has developed into a dominating force that pretty much beats down whoever he faces, or at least comes out on top.
As for HHH being "The Game" and having losing take him down a peg, I don't get it. He's lost before. It didn't tarnish his image. Losing doesn't hurt his gimmick, if anything it gives him something to strive for - remember his whole angle where all he talked about was how much he loved the WWF title and would do anything to get it? That he lived for it, breathed for it, etc? You couldn't have booked that angle correctly if you already had HHH as champion - at least it wouldn't have been as good entertainment, since his maniacal climb to gain the title saw him lie and cheat and whack people w/sledgehammers to get it. Even when he loses, like against HBK, he comes back and crushes his opponents - losing is part of HHH's gimmick that needs to be fleshed out more. Where's the rage that he's shown whenever he loses the belt? Where's the all-consuming lust he shows for it when he doesn't have it? What you don't get, ECS, is that losing, at least in HHH's case, doesn't tarnish his character as much as it enhances it b/c it allows us to see another side of him - a desparate man looking to reclaim his image.
Miakel - note that when you mentioned Brock losing, you had Jericho cheating to win. That's not a clean job, which is more along the lines of what I was talking about. But regardless, it underscores the proper way to book a Brock loss - throw the kitchen sink at him. 6 pedigrees performed in succession would do the job, as would about 5 tombstones, or a massive spot in which he goes flying through the ring or something. Whatever the case, I think we can all agree that Brock would need to be taken out either via cheating or a really excessive clean job, whereas HHH CAN lose clean and not have it ruin his character, or at least damage it. |