10 Hidden Wrestling Jokes Everybody Missed

2. Vince McMahon Mocks Triple H

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In a way, NXT 2.0 could be considered an inside joke at Triple H's expense unto itself.

Just look at the f*cking thing.

Just look at the logo, even; it is the direct antithesis to Triple H's favoured metal-themed intensity. It was as if Vince literally said "get rid of everything my son-in-law likes," and reimagined NXT 2.0 as a colourful, vibrant world in which virtually everybody known to wear kick pads was replaced by tall muscled greenhorns in a state of constant sexual arousal. The only "Prime Target" in NXT these days is the genitalia of those that the various wrestlers wish to rub up against.

More specifically, though, Vince McMahon cracked a joke at Triple H's expense during his 25th anniversary celebrations held very early into the pandemic. Held in front of nobody, obviously, Vince took it as an opportunity to say that the silence in the Performance Center - "crickets" - was a fitting atmosphere because Triple H only ever generated chants of "boring".

Vince said the entire celebration was "rotten".

But was the just the "banter" way in which friends f*ck around - or tacit acknowledgement that Triple H commanded near-total silence in one of every two WrestleMania matches?

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