Why Did Jarrett Leave In 99?

That's been proven to be false though. Apparently it's that the WWF wanted the title off Austin but the whole deal with Jesse Ventura was that he was going to be heel and raise Triple H's hand but the political backlash would have been too much, so they just put HHH over the next night.

Because Foley's the type of cat you can do a title exchange on free tv with.

well Austin was losing eitherway.and he stayed around longer than he needed to to help get HHH over as a credible heel champ-including wrestling a match he shouldnt have done at No Mercy 99.

after Fully Loaded 99,they knew Austins neck was totally done and he NEEDED the op.he was in bits after FL99 and he didnt wrestle regularly again for WWF.he wrestled at SS99 then after he became worse didnt wrestle again on TV(just doing run ins)until No Mercy 99.

the question became not how or who he was losing it to, but how to build after Austin had gone to have surgery.

its been said Foley was selected to beat Austin then HHH to beat Foley as a way to preserve mystique and the ineveitable one on one the 2 would have.

of course HHH won after Rocks interference backfired at No Mercy 99 ...........and the plan was always HHH to be revealed as the culprit for Austins rundown.....and they would feud on Austins return.

they did and HHH won the feud(when he shouldnt have)

so no he didnt hold HHH down really.if HHH had of beat Austin clean at Summerslam 99 then what?it all worked out for the best.

Remember too that Triple H 'crippled' Austin after the SummerSlam match and then went over him at No Mercy in October.

never said ya did man.

I stand by what I said though-HHH shouldnt have won that feud.

but there was heavy politics involved there.HHH went over because Austin was getting the title shot.

Austin didn't refuse to put Brock over, period, he refused to put him over on Raw. He thought that that big of a match should have been saved for a PPV instead of just blowing it on a Raw. That I agree with but he's admitted that it wasn't his place to do say such things and that he was wrong in it.

I think your right there man.I may have read that before someplace.

I agree that the Austin/Eddie feud made little sense at the time, given that Eddie was still a returning mid-carder at the time. But a win over Austin, even though it probably would have been dirty, would have done wonders for Eddie.

While I agree that an Austin/Lesnar match should have been built up for a PPV, having him loose on Raw wouldn't have devalued the Austin character at all IMO. I believe that Austin was still feuding w/ Flair at the time, who had already cost Austin some matches, so Flair could have cost Austin this match as well. This way, Austin doesn't look weak and Lesnar still gets the win over him.

I'd have booked it where Flair only came down and distracted Austin. No physical interferance, just him coming down to ringside and distracting Austin long enough for Lesnar to take control of the match.