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I don't think it's like either of those, it'd be like (screw the spoiler tags, I don't think anybody cares), if towards the end of the Edge and Christian team in 1999 or 2000, Edge got a sudden, and strong, 1-month push and got a shot at the the Undertaker for the title at a PPV. He loses, and the next night on RAW, Christian wins the gold. Edge and Christian would then either feud for the title, or somehow try to co-exist as friends, with that whole title situation lurking in the background. I think that would have been considered exciting stuff/good booking in 2000, pre the "everything sucks" era of internet cynicism. It kind of actually feels like a late 90s ECW-type angle (in reality, the WWE wasn't letting midcarders like Edge and Christian anywhere near main events, contrary to revisionist history that everybody was pushed back then).

The Lex Express is sometimes considered bad booking but I don't get why it was so absolutely necessary for Lex Luger and his patriotic underpants to be the face of the company. I think things worked better with Yokozuna staying champion, feuding with the undertaker and finally losing to Bret Hart. Yes, it did end Lex Luger's momentum, but so what? You have to make booking choices. Every push doesn't have to go all the way. Every guy can't be on top. Some guys, you have to pull the plug on so you can push a Bret Hart instead. Luger always worked better in WCW anyway, he wouldn't have fit in in 1996 WWF. They gave him a whole bus and he wasn't really connecting with the fans the way the Undertaker or Bret Hart could, or soon later, that Diesel could. They preserved Luger a little bit, he had some overness, he was in a tag team with the British Bulldog, had some lesser angles, which was a better spot for him by that point, IMO.