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What If: Triple H Was Around During The Invasion? Aug 29, 2020 19:27:50 GMT -5 JokerFC likes this

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Post by TheXtremisT on Aug 29, 2020 19:27:50 GMT -5

Aug 29, 2020 11:53:50 GMT -5 jason1980s said:

Aug 26, 2020 13:29:42 GMT -5 JokerFC said:

Jericho was the first Undisputed champ...and he was cleaning up dogsh*t on TV while HHH & Steph had the sparring on the mic. Jericho was only there because HHH couldnt pin Steph for the title. If he had feuded with Austin or Rock going into WM? he wouldn't have been the side attraction in the role of Stephs butler...there had NEVER been a more one sided championship feud going into WM up to this & there's no defending it.

HHH probably watched WCW in the late 90s and saw how popular Jericho was. Even in his early debut days Jericho was put over pretty well on WCW while Terra Ryzing in his WCW days was destined to be a guy who beats the Joey Maggs type of guys. Chris came in to WWF with a lot of fan fare and popularity even as a heel while Hunter struggled in his early WWF days on the level of fame and popularity with Sparky Plugg, Fatu, Duke Droese and Henry Godwinn. I'm sure he held a ton of bitterness towards anyone on the level of Chris back then. He is able to get the final victory over most guys from his era simply because of the power to bring them in for a Hall of Fame induction or a Raw reunion and see those guys kiss his butt on speeches and shoots but now Chris is helping a potential rival company build themselves as possible competition to WWE and that probably eats HHH up even more.

I think you're looking into it too much. Triple H would not have cared about Jericho in WCW and would never have seen him as a threat, let alone that he would wind up in WWE later on. In fact, in those days he focused on himself and getting to the next level.

When Jericho came into the WWE he thought negatively of Jericho firstly because he was a former WCW guy, cocky and brash. Jericho carried himself with that in the ring and Triple H probably mistakenly thought Jericho was like that outside of the ring. Especially since his first programs were with Road Dogg and X-Pac, both Trips' guys. If they took a disliking to someone, Triple H would take their side.

He probably thought Jericho was in need of being humbled and it's an old school "you're in our house" mentality.

He feuded with Chyna, who thought Jericho was unsafe in the ring because he wrestled her like one of the guys. Her being a woman, a 160lbs woman, but a woman still, as well as being more green to begin with, meant she was a bit less up for the punishment in a male-led match in her early days. As a result, she had a slight injury and Jericho apparently hit her too hard with connected punches, presumably getting wrapped up in the physical side of the match and treating her like on of the guys. And yet she wanted no special treatment, but cried foul when given just that.

She complained to Hunter, who was gaining more and more pull from Vince, and Trips began his vendetta against Jericho, and claimed he had "nuclear heat" because of it.

In spite of this, Jericho still remained popular and got more and more over. Probably infuriating HHH even more so. And like I said before, whilst Jericho feuded with Trips in 2000 and Steph in 2001, Jericho repeatedly owned them on the mic and got small victories over them.

They likely both held grudges against him, and thought he shouldn't be anywhere near the main event.

All together - this likely led to them burying him when Trips came back and ruining his run as first Undisputed Champion.