Actually it shows you that Booker T had just gotten traded to Smackdown and started his heel turn which didn't take place over night. By the time he was a full on heel the JBL/Guerrero feud was underway. JBL's heel turn happened instantly and the first promo he cut in his new gimmick was about Mexicans, immigration, etc.
They were both slotted to be heels from the word go after the brand extension.
JBL got picked over Booker despite being an unproven headliner. Simple as that. If they wanted Booker, they could have had him. They didn't. They paired him with Eddie on his first night on SmackDown and moved onto JBL because that's who they saw money in.
Undertaker had just returned to the WWE a few months earlier after taking time off and at this point in his career he served the role of the veteran who didn't need the title to get over similar to HBK during this time. In fact Taker didn't go on to win the world title again for almost three years. He spent most of 2004 and 2005 feuding with the likes of the Dudley Boyz, Heidenreich, and Randy Orton.
Taker was working a more regular schedule at this point than at points when he actually won the belt. Let's call a spade a spade. WWE thought JBL was more valuable as champion than Taker.
Something Booker's never been.
Taker getting the belt from JBL would have made JBL's reign meaningless and fucked up the ultimate goal of that entire almost year long reign, which was to have Cena get built up and go over the cheating heel that no one liked.
The fact that Cena's push went down like this doesn't mean it was a grand plan. Especially on account of the rumours that JBL's title win was a result of Eddie feeling pressured as champion and his reign getting cut short. But even if JBL's title win was WWE calling an audible, they didn't hit the abort button when Taker was an obvious out. They powered on through. They believed in JBL.
Far more than they ever believed in Booker. Seeing a pattern yet?
Booker T successfully defended his title twice against Batista before finally losing the belt to him.
So essentially, you're saying Booker failed to survive his first feud as champion.
And I agree. He is a massive failure when compared to JBL.
Wow. You are completely our of your league trying to debate me.
I'm not sure a guy who was likely educated in Detroit has the right to be talking down to anyone.
Yea defeating the likes of Goldberg, Kevin Nash, and Sting during the last year of WCW was just awful.
I agree. Booker's push was just another factor which made WCW unwatchable.
And then coming to the WWE and beating the likes of Jericho and Kurt Angle in WCW title matches really shows his stock falling
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It's Attitude Era WWF. Everybody beat everybody. But look at the trend his career took. He lost to Rock at SummerSlam, then failed to win the title back in a handicap match that favoured him, then got to be fodder for Taker and Team WWF, and then he feuded with Edge at WrestleMania over a shampoo commercial. At that point, WWE pulled the plug on his singles run and mercifully threw him in a tag team. If he didn't have a partner good enough to carry him, he'd likely have gone the way of DDP by the end of 2002.
Yeah, what a bright, shining star he was.
At the end of 2002 he was a participant in the Elimination Chamber main event at Survivor Series
Yeah, with Kane, RVD, and Jericho. It was HHH vs HBK, guest starring some upper midcarders.
If participating in an Chamber match is some sort of trump card, you might as well give up. Booker's clearly a lost cause.
and had some single and tag matches with Jericho right after.
Who hasn't?
A few months later in February of 2003 he started having matches with members of Evolution and that began the Mania feud with Triple H.
RVD and Kane were also fighting Evolution members that month.
Booker's road to Mania didn't start until he won that battle royal.
After Mania he continued feuding with Triple H and evolution for another month.
Of course he was overshadowed during that time by HBK and an ageing Kevin Nash.
Shows you once again just how valuable Booker is considered as a headliner.
It was no more shit then what Smackdown was during the year JBL was on top.
A yeah when SmackDown was still far more stacked than the time Booker had the belt on SmackDown. Let's not forget the facts.
Considering that's a completely false statement it really isn't simple as that.
The evidence tells a different story, son.