10 Absolute Worst Ways WWE Dragged Out Feuds
3. Triple H: B Show Player
Triple H is probably the smartest politicker in an industry built on it. He knows his way around the sort of pithy promo that makes his opponents look like jabronis; he knew exactly who to forge connections with to advance up the card and the floors of Titan Towers; and he knows exactly when to lose.
That's always the defence cited when determining just how destructive Triple H was when wielding a weapon almost as powerful as Hulk Hogan's WCW creative control clause. Hey, Triple H loses all the time, come on guy. He's no Hogan. Hogan ruined Crow Sting!
Triple H referred to Daniel Bryan, with some irony, as a B+ Player. If Steve Austin and The Rock were A+, what did that make him? Moreover, Triple H was fiendishly brilliant at doing jobs on B-level pay-per-views, knowing d*mn well-uh that the big shows remain far more vivid in the mind's eye. Nobody really remembers that Randy Orton captured the WWE Title in a strange six-man tag affair at Backlash '09; only that the ruthless killer was rendered toothless on the Grandest Stage.
And nobody remembers Goldberg's "triumph" at Unforgiven, in what was more expose than pro wrestling match, but the glorified stoplight that was SummerSlam 2003's Elimination Chamber main event: a stipulation custom-built for Goldberg's rapid-fire destroyer act and the instant rehabilitation of it. No, Goldberg was scammed out of that to pointlessly stumble towards a 15 minute snooze, pitched as something conclusive, that only met the remit ironically. It conclusively proved Goldberg could not acclimatise to a fixed Game.
Triple H also, helpfully, ruined WWE Sting.