10 Wrestling Secrets Hiding In Plain Sight

10. Listen To The Sounds

Triple H's rise to the apex of WWE is no secret; he shagged Stephanie McMahon, seized backstage power, and used it serve his niche kink of wrestling really tedious 25 minute matches at WrestleMania to perfect silence.

He was, however, a tad more discrete in New Jersey.

A recent example of an ancient art, obviously, pro wrestlers do not strike one another with full force when laying in weapon shots. Triple H did not, when he wrestled Batista in a really tedious 25 minute match at WrestleMania 35 to perfect silence. After making his Mad Max-style entrance - actually, perhaps the post-apocalyptic wasteland aesthetic was instead inspired by what he did to the WWE midcard in the 2000s - Trips set about his wheezing, stumbling opponent with a steel chain.

After subduing the Animal long enough to see him lay prone at ringside, which didn't take much, HHH thwacked him across the back. Watch closely, though, and you'll learn the secret...

...a secret unhelpfully revealed by WWE.com's photo gallery.

Triple H drove the chain into the announce table, creating a visual of velocity and a soundtrack of oomph. The chain then rested on Batista's ribcage as he sold the impact - or the physical toll of walking to the ring, one of the two.