WWF-The Rock & Rikishi & Mick Foley Segment, RAW 9/10/00

After Rikishi is revealed as the one who ran over Steve Austin, he says he did it for The Rock Raw 10/9/00

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[ecwvstna78]

"I DID IT FOR DA ROCK ".

[TheSebang]

The promo that killed Rikishi's career

[gangstamatchia25]

@TheSebang He did the promo for the Rock.

[mkl62]

And I'm also Natalya's father.

[newagepun]

@TheDmy2k not as much as the cena era. Kid brand sponsorships are heavy hitters. 

[MyLuchaLibreLife]

@TheDmy2k I know, but still it's funny that they could only have one mic at a time.

[TheDmy2k]

@MyLuchaLibreLife Im pretty sure WWE was making MILLIONS during this era...

[MyLuchaLibreLife]

This was back when they could only afford one mic for all the people in the ring. lol. 

[newagepun]

@TherealRNO plus Cena is the engine that runs WWE's moneymaking empire. Why would Vince shoot down his golden goose? Creative people like Russo who had great suggestions helped flesh out Rock's catch phrase making machine. And from there, Rock made the character more of his own where he could walk down the aisle, into the ring and have the crowd in his palms and play them easily like putty with his mere presence, mic-talent and natural charisma.

[newagepun]

@AO17 before the 2000's as well, he has already been in high profile matches against main event stars as well. And that was when he was coming up the ranks in the midcard from his days in the Nation.

[newagepun]

@1000sidney WWE in a sense set themselves up for this since they didn't have a system to replace those guys. Cena comes closest to hulk but now all the old stars are gone, its so hard to further solidify punk, daniel bryan, dolph ziggler and cody rhodes without a strap on them because there isn't anyone legit they can go after.

[newagepun]

"Shut your mouth you thong wearing fattie"

And then Rikishi was fukkie buried and was never taken seriously as a heel. Not as bad as Triple H burying Booker T, but clearly the big jolly ol samoan dancer wasn't cut to play a hitman.