Why do we hate Triple H as a wrestler and put him 1 step below the GOATs? Just look at his matches in his prime (99'-00') and they are all bangers. He had charisma, skill AND was an incredible worker. He put Foley into retirement in one of the best matches of all time.
>b-but he is not a great wrestler!!
False. Look at his match against Benoit at No Mercy 2000. He brought out a bunch of new moves AND outclassed benoit in technical wrestling.

Yes, his later years (especially post-injury) could be considered by some as slightly worse, but what wrestler didn't drop off from his peak hayday? How can you come with a straight face and tell me that he is somehow below Stone Cold (who barely had ANY 5/5 matches) or the Rock (much much shorter and less accomplished career)?

>>18510357 (OP)
>He put Foley into retirement in one of the best matches of all time.
The Hell in A Cell match? Everyone likes the Rumble match more.

>>18510357 (OP)
Because he slept his way to the top like a woman and overexposed himself- can’t be one of the best ever with that on your resume, his fault

>>18510357 (OP)
Cunter sucks. He is BORING in the ring. Foley carried him to good matches. Usually Cunter is a bore.

>outclassed Benoit
LMAO. Don't you have work to do, Paul?

>>18510463
have you SEEN No Mercy 2000, anon? Or are you just talking out of your ass?

>>18510357 (OP)
I think he pretty much ruined his reputation as a universally beloved all time great because of the Reign of Terror thing from 2002-2005 where he decided to make himself the main character of RAW because he was virtually untouchable backstage

>>18510357 (OP)
rode Shawn and the kliqs coat tails to his spot, kept his spot by plugging the bosses daughter
he fucking sucked, no one who was around for the attitude era liked him. can't speak for his reign of terror on because like most normal people id stopped watching e-slop by then but im guessing it was as bad or worse.

>>18510357 (OP)
He’s the GOAT that correctly gatekept all the shitters from the main event scene. The hate is all grudges because of him burying some darling jobber smarks were overhyping.

His title reigns were boring. Most of his matches were boring. Can't wait for him to drop dead.

He will rot in hell for what he did to Chyna. I don't care about his wrestling feats. He will pay for what he did once he faces the Almighty. He will job badly and be sent to the undercard (Hell).

>>18510463
you lost and got raped

>>18510776
Chyna did not want kids. She deserved it.

>>18510776
>>18510755
samefaggot cuck

>>18510357 (OP)
Every great match between 1997 and 2000 that this faggot had was because he either was riding the coattails of more popular colleagues (Shawn, Chyna), was carried by better wrestlers (Foley, Benoit, Jericho) or had immaculate chemistry with (Rock).
Hunter is good, but he's not great. The fact he's also the supreme backstage political cockroach by first riding Shawn's coattails and then marry Stephanie.

>>18510853
Chyna was more popular than Triple H for a VERY short 3-4 month window back in 98'. Also LMAO @ calling Foley a "better wrestler". The only thing that guy could do well is look cool while getting beaten the fuck up. In terms of pure wrestling skills Hunter mops the floor with him.

>>18510802
KWAB

>>18510357 (OP)
IWC can't think for themselves and just latch onto any semi-popular narrative when looking to the past. Anyone that actually watched him back then knew how good he was 2000-2001, he was actually the original IWC darling and hailed easily as one of the best.

Anyone that puts him below Undertaker is a complete retard, he's same level, both above the Shitman. I think only people that are put above him are the GOAT draws like Stone Cold/The Rock etc. because of how important they were to the company and how much cultural impact they had.

>>18510357 (OP)
>Why do we hate Triple H as a wrestler
Unintelligent smarks got worked back in the Rajah days and it just became engrained in IWC culture over time. You still see people pretending he was only in the main event because he ate Stephanie's asshole, when the reality is he was in the main event for over a year before they ever worked together.

I shoot hate him. I stopped watching WWE after going to the most boring raw i ever saw in my life while he was in evolution. Fuck triple bypass.

>>18510962
He had 1 good year

>>18510980
actually, he had 98, 99, 00 and 01.

>>18510357 (OP)
Because he was never on the level of Rock, Austin, Foley, Angle, etc. but he tries to revise history and pretend like he was.

>>18510357 (OP)
>Why do we hate Triple H as a wrestler and put him 1 step below the GOATs?
I put him about 1000 steps below the GOATs
>Just look at his matches in his prime (99'-00') and they are all bangers.
I watched them in real time, not in youtube recap format like you, and he was the worst part of all of them.
>He had charisma, skill AND was an incredible worker.
Literally none of that is true. Pauletty sucks at everything except backstage politicking. He got where he is by sucking Shawn's dick and Steph's strapon. End of conversation.

>>18511003
you didn't watch shit. HHH was top guy main event level before ever setting his eyes on Stephanie.

>>18510988
He was on their level and better at some stuff than them. He was a much better heel than them, he could actually make storylines feel intense instead of just spamming catchphrases. Every single program he had with all 4 of them was dimes, especially with Stone Cold and Foley, his feud vs the Rock was also a massive draw. Compare Angle vs Austin during the invasion to HHH vs Stone Cold that felt like a blood feud. This is not a knock on any of those 4, but HHH wasn't below them in his output

>>18510357 (OP)
>>18510357 (OP)
mcmahon helmsley killed wrestlings mainstream appeal. if thats his peak then that says a lot

>>18510984
Nah just 2000

>>18511027
>He was on their level
lolno. Imagine being out of touch enough to claim Triple H was on the level of Austin and Rock, holy fucking shit lmao. He was the guy who got lil bro'd by Austin and The Rock.

>>18511021
>you didn't watch shit.
no, I watched it all, faggot
>HHH was top guy main event level before ever setting his eyes on Stephanie.
Because he was sucking Shawn's dick, and Shawn was sucking Vince's dick. It had nothing to do with talent, because he never had any.

>>18511027
>He was on their level and better at some stuff than them
'sup Paul
>>18511053
I actually blame Benoit more, but yeah, they certainly didn't help.

>>18511059
Shawn left in 98'. HHH became the top guy in 99'. You didn't watch shit, faggot.

>>18511092
Right, because Paul had already sucked Shawn's dick enough, you retarded Indian faggot.

>>18510357 (OP)
That match he had with Crispen in No Mercy 2000 is a hidden gem. Most of Triple Nose's matches in 2000 were very good

>>18511092
>Triple H
>1999
>top guy
This man has a gay crush on Triple H and is inventing his own reality

>>18511130
2nd half of 1999 he started main eventing alot and by the time he had that mini feud with Vince into armaggedon 1999 and then the feud with Foley you could reasonably say he was the 2nd highest after The Rock since Austin was injured

>>18511246
>top guy
>no he wasn't
>uhhhh, he was the second biggest...debatably...
H revisionists are so pathetic lol

>>18511246
>you could reasonably say he was the 2nd highest after The Rock
So yes, he wasn't the top guy in 1999. Triple H was always the guy who was one stop below the top guys, which is fine because somebody needs to fill that spot and he was arguably the best to ever do it, but trying to make himself the main character of WWE during his reign of terror was a huge mistake because he never good enough to be top dog.

>>18511092
Triple H won the championship in '99, but he definitely wasn't the top guy. You could maybe say he was the top heel at the time. Even in 2001, he was second fiddle to Austin during the Two Man Power Trip angle. Triple H wasn't truly a top guy until 2002 or 2003.

>>18511130
there's a nonzero chance that it's actually unironically Paul

>>18511246
>you could reasonably say he was the 2nd highest after The Rock
So yes, he wasn't the top guy in 1999. Triple H was always the guy who was one step below the top guys, which is fine because somebody needs to fill that spot and he was arguably the best to ever do it, but trying to make himself the main character of WWE during his reign of terror was a huge mistake because he was never good enough to be top dog.

>>18511246
>O-ok, but when Foley and Austin were both out, then you could argue that he was second behind the Rock...
wow what a "top guy"

I don't even hate Paul like I did during the reign of terror and after. If anything, I respect that he is The Game, because he played the game, and he won the game. He wanted to be Vince, and now he is, and he's learning that heavy lies the crown of the king carnie. But he was never the guy. He was never even the 2nd guy. He was always at least behind Austin, Rock and Foley in popularity, no matter how he was booked. He's always been kind of a dimeless shitter with a good physique. He wrestles better than Lex Luger and Kevin Nash, is about the nicest thing I could say about his wrestling ability.

>>18511444
The biggest problem with H is that not once, not a SINGLE time in his career did he ever own up to his sleazy ways, even in kayfabe. His marriage to Steph was always treated like an afterthought and a wink, never once used to advance his own character as a heel.

>>18510357 (OP)
>Just look at his matches in his prime (99'-00') and they are all bangers
There's not a single great match here. Maybe just the two Mick Foley matches in early 2000 but nothing else.

>>18510391
no way out 2000 is top 5 ppv ever. easily.

>>18510357 (OP)
We love THE GAME here,his contributions to wrestling and Motorhead discography are great
He also contained CUNTs immense cocklust and saved countless men from rape

>>18510357 (OP)
He is dead BORING throughout his fucking career both on the mic and in the ring, anon. His only good year was in 2000 where he work as a cool head honcho top heel of WWF but soon after hew went full solo with no staple and side kick, the man is dead boring both a heel and baby face. In term of boredom, this man is the original "Big Dog", absolutely boring in every category possible.

>>18512690
you did not watch shit from that period.

>>18513636
The story was good in a car crash writing way but the match was shit, bro.

Austin had a 5 star
HHH did not
/thread

>>18513638
Ok so you're not a wrestling fan then. That's fine anon, that's why we have the coombait and ratingRage threads on /pw/.

>>18513654
>y-you're not a wrestling fan!
>fuck /pw/ too!
Why the fuck are you here?

>>18513636
Nigga all of the good H matches ironically happen during his reign and post championship.

>>18513641
>meme star
Lmao

He never had that match
He never had that moment
He was good but never great

>>18513805
>He never had that match
vs Cactus Jack @ RR
>He never had that moment
2002 return

>>18510357 (OP)
I am not going to repeat what the smarks already wrote, there is truth to most of that.
For me , he is annoying for not implementing more powerful moves in his game.

He looked fantastic, big dude on steroids, yet the pedigree is super underwhelming and he rarely threw people around.

>>18513813
His moment fizzle out pretty damn bad when he has to rely on his own. He was a bad solo act period

>>18513831
The original pedigree facebuster where he didn't let go of the arms is pretty sick

raw in 2002 ruined him for me