[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Oct 5 2004, 02:39 PM\']About as close as he came, yes...
This was something which interested me -- this was the first show of "new" tapings, and, though a lot of people might've been freaked out that he was still champ, the real question would be how he would get the timing back down after a couple or three months off.
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Ken still had the enormous advantage of having PLAYED fortysomething previous games, regardless of how long ago it was, whereas his two opponents were playing their first. I'm sorry, a lot of people bring this up as if it was a disadvantage to poor Ken, though I know Ken would never use it as an excuse. Whatever rustiness Ken might have felt does not begin to equal the advantage of his experience.