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Old 04-12-2009, 03:35 AM   #1
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Triple H has been a part of plenty of defining WrestleMania moments. There was the heel turn on X-Pac that people remember, where he joined the Corporation, or whatever. He was the first heel to ever walk out of WrestleMania as the WWE Champion, which was pretty fucking epic. There is the match against Taker that you mentioned, him winning the Undisputed Championship at WrestleMania X-8, and the Triple Threat Match at WrestleMania XX.

It's just that a lot of the other stuff he does at Mania is so bland it drowns it out.
WrestleMania XIV vs Owen Hart was a good match.
WrestleMania XIX vs Booker T, it was a good match and people were only pissed because Booker T didn't win (let me guess, Triple H booked that match too?)
WrestleMania 21, he made Batista (who is one of the biggest names in WWE still, Triple H must not have booked this one).
WrestleMania 22, he made a John Cena main event interesting and had the crowd into a match.
WrestleMania XXIV, the triple threat match was very good.
WrestleMania XXV, yes the match was nowhere near what it should have been.

I will agree with you that HHH is not HBK, but to completely disregard Triple H's body of work is absurd.
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Old 04-12-2009, 12:11 PM   #2
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WrestleMania XIV vs Owen Hart was a good match.
WrestleMania XIX vs Booker T, it was a good match and people were only pissed because Booker T didn't win (let me guess, Triple H booked that match too?)
WrestleMania 21, he made Batista (who is one of the biggest names in WWE still, Triple H must not have booked this one).
WrestleMania 22, he made a John Cena main event interesting and had the crowd into a match.
WrestleMania XXIV, the triple threat match was very good.
WrestleMania XXV, yes the match was nowhere near what it should have been.

I will agree with you that HHH is not HBK, but to completely disregard Triple H's body of work is absurd.
I haven't seen Triple H's earlier WrestleMania performances. I'm sure his WrestleMania match against Owen Hart was great. I'm not discounting that, but it's not a replayed WrestleMania moment or anything.

WrestleMania XIX's booking completely soured any quality of the match. Didn't Triple H hit a Pedigree, and takes ages to actually crawl into the cover and get the pin? I couldn't claim for sure whether Triple H did book it, but the best thing for business was for Booker T to go over and look strong, and completely redeem African-Americans in wrestling.

WrestleMania 21 was pretty great. Triple H built up Batista the way he should have built up Randy Orton, but didn't. WrestleMania 22 I don't completely agree with. I thought the idea of Cena/Triple H headling was silly, because Rey Mysterio won the Royal Rumble, and there was no kayfabe reason for Cena/Trips to headline the event. The fans were into it, but to credit that entirely to Triple H? It was Cena-hate fueling that fire.

WrestleMania XXIV might have been a good match, but it couldn't hold my attention. Triple Threats have been overused in World Title matches at WrestleMania, and again I feel the booking screwed over any good the match had built (and yes, finishes do matter). John Cena should have won the WWE Championship. He was undefeated at WrestleMania at this point in time, had won the Royal Rumble, had beaten Orton via DQ at No Way Out, and this was his story to getting the WWE Title back. Not only did Cena not win the match, but the third man, Triple H, didn't even take the pin. And keeping Orton's reign as WWE Champion strong was not the point, because he lost the WWE Title just a month later, anyway.

I'm not discounting the guy's entire body of work. Triple H has some classics to his name. Not every guy can say that. But when it comes to real WrestleMania moments, I'd consider those I mentioned to be his greatest, although I did forget about putting Batista over. That should be in there. Besides that, you've got his really strong matches at WrestleMania, and just his other matches at WrestleMania.
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