Wait...No Threads on that Soul-Crushing Triple H Promo?

[TrueEpic08]

For shame

I watched RAW last night after it went off the air, skipping through most of it, and it was a fine experience. Tedious, as usual but fine. Until I got to the Triple H promo.

What a load of self-indulgent garbage that was.

I got to miss all of the fellation that happened before this, but this promo...THIS promo was fukking horrible, one of the worst that I've seen in a long, long time. Fake tears, forced "legend" chants, elevating himself to statuses that he never earned and never will and, most of all, it was looooong and boring.

In effect, it was a microcosm of Hunter's career, in which he takes something that could be potentially good and that he's technically good at and drowns it in his own ego and insecurity to the point that it kills whatever good that could come from any promo/segment/match/etc.

Just fukking awful all around. Discuss.

 

[krackdagawd]

 

[ML29]

Nah, we just went in on him in this week's Raw thread. But the more hunter hate the better so cool.

 

[Smackdown625]

He's out there talking like he's some kind of legend, getting almost no reaction from that dead crowd. Saying the same things over & over, while not really saying anything. Fake tears, pausing for some reaction and getting nothing. HBK/Austin/Rock/Taker/Cena all have overshadowed HHH throughout his career. He's a talented mid-carder that was pushed up to the top due to marrying his bosses daughter. He'll never be as good as he thinks he is. And when it's all said & done, this guy wouldn't even make a Top 25 all-time list....

 

[CACsaw Jim Duggan]

HOOOOOOOO!


USA! USA!

 

[Red Omega]

was fukkin pathetic

WWE originally didn't have a Triple H speech planned for RAW this week. Last night's segment was done because of the crowd reaction they received at SummerSlam. The feeling was that fans didn't take Triple H's "retirement" serious enough at first.

 

[TrueEpic08]

was fukkin pathetic

WWE originally didn't have a Triple H speech planned for RAW this week. Last night's segment was done because of the crowd reaction they received at SummerSlam. The feeling was that fans didn't take Triple H's "retirement" serious enough at first.

I would say "un-fukking-believable," but it's Hunter. That word and others like it don't apply to his fragile ego.

He's out there talking like he's some kind of legend, getting almost no reaction from that dead crowd. Saying the same things over & over, while not really saying anything. Fake tears, pausing for some reaction and getting nothing. HBK/Austin/Rock/Taker/Cena all have overshadowed HHH throughout his career. He's a talented mid-carder that was pushed up to the top due to marrying his bosses daughter. He'll never be as good as he thinks he is. And when it's all said & done, this guy wouldn't even make a Top 25 all-time list....

I'll give him slightly more credit than that: He would have been a world champion without all of that crap. The company was really THAT intent on pushing him even before his relationship with Stephanie. And at least back then around 2000 or so, he had the work in the ring to back it up. He wasn't fantastic around that time like everyone likes to mention (If he was fantastic, the Last Man Standing match vs. Jericho wouldn't have made him look completely out of his league vs. Hunter, it just would have made him), but he was very, very good at what he did. Hunter couldn't accept that, so we got what we have now as a result.

It's actually sadder than if he really was just a glorified midcarder, because then you could say he had a good reason for playing politics to this extent. Not only were politics on his side from the beginning, he was already good enough to be a world champion. That's what so sad about it all.

 

[I-Hate-You]

Props to the guy for finding a way to make himself seem a lot more important than he was.

 

[OGJOHNNY5]

lol @ him somehow managing to have a reverse-Jay Z/MJ retirement. complete Apathy.

 

[Jmare007]

Source: F4WOnline

Since SummerSlam, the Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar rematch has been speculated for WWE's Survivor Series and Hell in a Cell pay-per-views.

Now The Wrestling Observer reports that word coming out of RAW was Triple H won't be wrestling again until WrestleMania 29. No word yet if this means Lesnar's WrestleMania opponent will be Triple H or if it means they have nixed the rematch altogether.

WWE originally didn't have a Triple H speech planned for RAW this week. Last night's segment was done because of the crowd reaction they received at SummerSlam. The feeling was that fans didn't take Triple H's "retirement" serious enough at first.

The possibility of Brock vs HHH II at Mania is

 

[Morrison17]

i'm not a Criple H hater, but idc what he said
no matter what his career isn't over and this kayfabe garbage looks pathetic

 

[Ohnoits]

Was hilarious that he thought he could go out there and get the response Edge or HBK got...it must burn him deep inside of his soul.

 

[CJ]

No thread cause most of us were trying to forget that pretentious and pathetic attempt at admiration displayed by Levesque and Co.
I dislike HHH, but there is no doubt he would have had title reigns without the political pulls. May have been respected more if his "legacy" wasn't force fed on everyone.
Regardless, last night's attempt to build affection/a reaction was just downright Dude better hide out till WM, or when they're in MSG again, that's his only hope for the send off he's looking for. Hope the editing team got a phat bonus cheque though, they deserved it! Props to those guys with the tapped out and HBK is better than you signs tho

 

[Mikael Blowpiff]

Without Stephanie he still would've been Edge status.

 

[DANJ!]

No thread cause most of us were trying to forget that pretentious and pathetic attempt at admiration displayed by Levesque and Co.
I dislike HHH, but there is no doubt he would have had title reigns without the political pulls. May have been respected more if his "legacy" wasn't force fed on everyone.

This I agree with...

I think dude wanted to be Flair-like so bad at one point, he didn't allow himself to naturally BECOME that. Between '99 and '01, he did GREAT being the top heel. No taking away from that. He had good feuds with Rock, Austin, Jericho, Foley... the promos weren't 15 minutes long every week, and even though he was clearly being positioned as a dominant heel, it never felt like overkill. But around the time of Evolution, even though I don't think it was terrible, it got overbearing. And as much as he attempted to be that '80s Flair type heel champion, it never actually happened. Had he stayed solid as he was in '99-'01, it would've happened on its own, but it came off more forced.

And since then, he turned face with DX in '06, and honestly, that's probably the last year he was entertaining to watch. He's had his moments since then, but ever since he fell back, it seems to me most of the crowd is OK with that. It's never like when he comes back to wrestle. It's more like and depending on the storyline or opponent, people either get into it or not. This Lesnar thing for example hasn't gone over as big as everyone probably thought it would... and why would it, when it's two people who are barely on TV anymore.

But that promo last night... ... it didn't feel like retirement, it didn't feel like he conclusively said anything. It was like "I don't know, but we'll see what happens". So now we're supposed to wait around and clamor for his return for months and months? Nah. I'm not sayin' dude needs to go ahead and stay gone, but they've been trying to make this "retirement" a moment, when in most peoples' eyes, he kinda already has. It's kinda hard to get a sympathetic sendoff reaction when you only wrestle two/three matches a year as is.