X-7
By Scott Keith on 20 February 2018
Don't get me wrong, Rock vs. Austin at the Astrodome in WM 17 is one of my three favorites matches ever, but I'm just curious: when HBK showed up in a Soma coma and torpedoed the planned comeback match between him and HHH at that WrestleMania, was there any consideration of making the main event an Austin-Rock-HHH Triple Threat? It wouldn't have been the worst idea (certainly better than just plugging HHH in against Taker), and there was even a built-in reason for it since HHH had just beaten Austin in that awesome 2/3 Falls Match at No Way Out the previous month. It seems like it would have made sense on several levels.
Ugh, no, don't even suggest that or HHH might build a time machine and retroactively insert himself into the match. Rock-Austin was set in stone for months beforehand and it was the only match they were gonna run to fill up the Astrodome.