[The One]

Oh come off it you people. Now I agree with the general idea that Michaels is better than Hunter, but the way some of you talk about Triple H screams idiotic.

Shawn Michaels is the better performer, but that's really in large part due to Shawn Michaels being the best performer of all time.

Triple H has more backstage pull now, but either way, it's not like Shawn or Hunter have to do anything they don't want to do anyway...and haven't for some time.

Shawn Michaels was at his peak (96-98) a better stand alone draw than Hunter was at his peak (99-01)...but Hunter had a larger a better cast of characters to play opposite of, which is why ratings where better for his time on top.

Now that I got that out of the way I would like to take a moment here and really talk about how incredible Triple H is. Let's remember that this is a guy who was in line to finally get a main event push (admittedly due to him being in the Kliq) and then got shit upon by Vince in response to the Curtain Call. He took the wrath that should have been divided up into four and bared it all alone. He busted his ass and worked back into being in good graces with Vince again.

Also, let's talk for a second about the evolution of his career...blue blood to rebellious degenerate to merciless mastermind to bad ass good guy to the "Old Ric Flair" model to happy fun loving guy...and he made all those transitions seamlessly without ever really changing his "gimmick" or going away and then coming back as someone knew, he's just evolved into whatever was needed of him. That takes a special kind of performer.

And speaking of him as a performer, I defy any of you to name off all the people who are better than him in the ring. He's not the flashiest worker, but he's completely solid in everything he does. From normal matches to Iron Men to hardcore to ladder, he's done it all and been incredible with it. While Austin and Rock and to a lesser extent Foley (who by the way, I'd wage that Hunter was a bigger draw than Foley was, but whatever) were bringing in the fans, it was Hunter who was doing the matches with them. Rock has never, and I mean NEVER had better matches than the ones he had with Hunter. Hunter and Austin's feud was so fucking incredible, and no it didn't fare as well as Austin/McMahon, but than again nothing in the history of professional wrestling has ever even come close to Austin/McMahon...And Mick Foley...shoot, I'd take Hunter/Foley at the Rumble and No Way Out over any of Foley's other matches in his run with WWE.

Now everyone knows I praise Flair as god, plain and simple, but if there was ever anyone who came close to him, Hunter's as good of a choice as anyone. Will Triple H break Flair's record? Probably top 16, sure (even though Ric Flair held 22, two-two, World Titles, but whatever...). Is that so bad though? Over the past decade can you think of anyone who has been as solid and consistant a worker as Triple H? I honestly don't understand where all this loathing of him has come from lately. He's held a World Title for all of a couple of hours in the past 2 years and you all still bitch about him being a title hog or whatever. And for what it's worth, I don't think that him being married to Steph has anything to do with his stroke. It's more because he and Vince are best friends, if anything the fact that Vince's best friend is boning his only daughter might cause a little tension. Thought admittedly that doesn't seem to be the case at all...

The bottom line is Triple H is one of the best workers of all time. At his peak, I would submit that he was the best heel there has ever been. And inside the ring, it's a damn short list of people who are a better performer than him.