8 Things We Learned From Triple H On Stephanie McMahon's WWE Show

8. HHH’s Original WWE Name

Admittedly, this has become fairly common knowledge amongst those obsessed by what WWE almost called various workers over the years. Steve Austin was very-nearly "Chilly McFreeze", and Bryan Danielson could easily have become "Lloyd Boner". That was actually Bry's own suggestion! Triple H definitely wasn't on board with what the-then WWF fancied calling him back in 1995 though.

They pitched "Reginald Dupont Helmsley". Stephanie screwed her face up at that like her husband was kidding on, but she’s surely heard this story before. Even so, he’s lucky that they went with Hunter Hearst Helmsley instead, because that led to his Triple H/HHH branding. Hunter says he didn’t like the Reggie name at all. In fairness, why the hell would he?! It had no ring to it.

At least Hunter Hearst Helmsley had potential to be shortened. What was ol' Reg gonna do - become RDH?

It's awesome that Trips had the confidence in himself to knock back anything when he first joined the promotion in the mid-90s. Saying no to the market leader was always going to be risky, but Hunter had already suffered through the indignity of being called Terra Ryzing early on in his career, so perhaps it's understandable that he put the foot down on being Reginald.

HHH was born. The earliest examples of Vince McMahon uttering that on commentary stretch right back to Raw in 1996, so it's clear that Hunter was keen to move away from the long form name towards something snappier. Looking back, it's somewhat shocking they didn't call his "Greenwich Blueblood" character something like, 'Snooty Von Snooterson'. 

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