Triple H 2002-2009 and his stretch of bad PPV matches

I feel he was the biggest star or at least one of em, so it all made sense looking back.

I'd still say that it would have been nice to have other guys in the spotlight tho. I'd have em drop the belt & then win it back anyways.

RVD,Booker, Nash, Kane, Steiner etc could have been World Champ for a month or two/three at most. Jericho as well. Hollywood Rock.

A lot of exaggerated stuff tbh. Looking back I enjoy it more & more lol.

It's relative to how he was booked. I'm not picking on a mid carder that was poor in the ring, this guy was booked on top for a decade. He owns more below even average PPV matches that absolutely anybody I could name.


His workrate for his spot on the card was piss poor in comparison to both his peers, and predecessors. He was Ric Flair, if Flair's average aggregated performance was 2-3*

How is that ok?

Kurt Angle in comparison was not only more charismatic, but his worst matches were still damn solid.

I'm a huge Triple H fan and have always felt he had way more good than bad matches. His stuff with Kevin Nash in 2003 is a real favorite of mine, I have always felt it was a missed opportunity not to put the title on Nash, even if it was just from one PPV to the next.

His stuff with Batista is also fantastic, those two had great chemistry.

I can see where you are coming from though, I think the problem may be the volume of work that he had. He was such a focal point of the show for long periods of time, I can see why some may have lost interest and gotten bored with his work. For me personally, I would say that I have enjoyed like 90 percent of Triple H's career and he would easily be in my top 10 of all time.

Although, his WrestleMania main event with Randy Orton sucked big time, but I put a huge part of that on Randy Orton too!

I enjoyed pretty much all those matches except for the ones with Scott Steiner. But Steiner with the foot injury he had then was a shell of what he was prior to coming back to the WWE. Can’t blame that on Triple H or Steiner really. Triple H is always in my “Top 5” All-Time wrestlers at 4 or 5 depending on my mood of the day.

it was 50/50 from HHH in that period. he had 2 stinkers vs Jericho too but I enjoyed some of the ones that are listed as bad.

As for Steiner? That booking is 100% on Vince, Steph and whoever else was involved in the layout of those matches. If Vince could have assessed things objectively he would have seen that not only was Steiner in absolutely no shape to perform? HHH was bloated, over loaded with muscle and unable to carry him.

RR03 should have been a short out of control brawl that made Steiner look like a monster. Evolution has to save HHH and he gets the fright of his life...have Orton and Flair bump like a pinball for Steiner. Have HHH play the coward heel running for his life whilst his crew gets annihilated. Crowd would have ate it up and the stage would have been set much better for NWO in Feb.

he could sell a feud really well and had proven that, and let’s not ignore that he’s clearly not a bad politician

could’ve been worse. I’d take HHH over Cena or JBL

His job was to be a great heel and I think he did it very well. Yeah Booker should have beat him at Wrestlemania but the rest of his reign of terror worked well. For as many bad matches as he had, he had a lot of really good ones and some really good feuds too.

We got as good as we got bad.
Did we need Katie Vick, Booker blunder, orton wasn’t ready for world title run but did we need the belt back on HHH, few misses with HBK in matches, Goldberg not going over at SS, and WWE dropping the belt on orton-HHH feud in 09

We still got WM XX main event, Batista ascending to the top, a feud with Orton in 2009 that they got right story wise, two very very good matches with HBK, some solid work in solo feuds with Beniot, and decent story out of Cena.

A lot of people think HHH redeemed himself in his 08 title run. Working a good small feud with edge and the Hardy saga. I think HHH got back into really good shape around this time and picked up his work rate to something closer to 2000-2001 pace.

I’m a HHH mark and I have power of looking back in hindsight.

The Steiner matches would be booked similar to lesnar Goldberg formula in world where this feud still happens
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No Booker match or Booker goes over to drop it back in early summer/late spring.

Alternative opponent is HBK WM XIX. HHH sells up his chamber injury as HBK takes the world on and the spot light. (We force Michaels at gun point to hold the title till mania) Michaels is fighting champion and keeping up with stars of the time as HHH in lust, misery, hate sits on sidelines. He tries to derail Shawn at every corner sabotaging matches, trying to pay off rookie heels to hurt Shawn for spot on a career enriching “”mentorship” (evolution)
Shawn has this dream match program with RVD based on they both were pioneering in there companies in 90s and it’s match we thought we’d never see going into Rumble along with HHH try to instigate conflict between them
Michaels goes over and runs progress at NWO 03 maybe with Hollywood Rock

HHH is cleared and looks to take what is his back and settle this blood feud blah blah. I thought of either ladder match connecting Shawn to WM X or I quit match. Where HHH in high drama wins. And Shawn goes into Jericho program and vows revenge and redemption which gets us still to the same RR04-WM XX story,



Goldberg didn’t really hit the high note in 2003. So he goes over at SS and is totally booked different. Or a bat-sh*T Kane wins in the chamber at SS after being unmasked.

Maybe orton drops the title to someone else like Shawn Michaels, back to Beniot or even Edge. Hhh jealousy is noted and his hatred of not seeing himself on top manifests. He sees this rookie orton who’s on top of the world fumbling the title as a disrespect, orton whoever he loses to puts on a massive fight and resilient performance but he loses and is humbled. You can trail into Orton-HHH feud and HHH still getting the belt in late 04 early 05 for Batista or something.


Build up to orton and hhh at WM 25 was excellent just this match needed to be some over booked street fight and orton goes over