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Originally Posted by Yep.
Well stated. Cro Cop got the job done, Barnett didn't. People were expecting Wandy to win the whole thing before it even started, and CC gave him a beating. Part of winning a tournament is not only to survive but to finish your opponents swiftly, something that Cro Cop was successful at and Barnett wasn't.
We can continue to make wonders of "could have, would have, should have," but things happened the way they happened. Cro Cop won the OWGP, something Barnett couldn't do.
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He got the job done, but honestly who had the easiest road to victory in the OWGP? Id say Mirko by far. 3 of his 4 opponents werent even in his weight class. The one HW he beat he'd already beaten twice before. Personally, my problem with GP's is it always seems one guy has a war, then fights a guy that didnt have such a hard fight. So the state Barnett and Crocop came into their bout is of huge relevance to me.
So, technically, Crocop is 1-0 this year in his weight class. And BS decision or no (it
was anybodys game come decision time though, I admit), Barnett beat Nog. "could have, would have, should have," but things happened the way they happened.
I think people are overrating the OWGP belt. Competition matters to me more than who wins a belt.
And wow....people picked Wandy? I could see people thinking he could get past Crocop (at least at the time), get a big punch in or something. But people really felt he could get past Barnett or Nog? Blasphemous.