They made Helmsley the Intercontinental Champion, 5 months after the MSG incident. I'm sure a lot of stars would love to have been punished in that fashion.
Jim Ross has admitted that HHH's main-event push was substantially delayed due to his participation in the "Curtain Call."
Hunter really took it in stride, too, considering he was the only one from the group to be punished.
Hall & Nash left right after the incident.
The queer from San Antonio had the big belt, and they couldn't just abruptly change the entire scheme of events there. And, by the time he jobbed the belt to Austin, it was off again with career-ending injury #11, so he escaped persecution at the hand of the old man.
The only one who was left from that night was Hunter, and he suffered the full brunt of it.
He had the I-C belt, but he was working some really shitty programs and angles with guys like the Godwin's.
His
real push was expected to be during his "cool face" D-X run. In fact, I still remember one of the dirtsheets mentioning that he was slated to become champion within the next year, and I couldn't understand why they kept waiting since he was so over with D-X.
Years later, I learned the politics that were involved and it all made sense.