Call it a situation of life imitating art. When Triple H abducted and married a drugged Stephanie McMahon during her scripted bachelorette party in 1999, they were not an item. The McMahon-Helmsley era was a major storyline during the Attitude Era, but the couples onscreen marriage dissolved in 2002 a little more than a year before they were married in real life in October 2003. Although they would appear on camera together several times during the next five-plus years, their real marriage was never acknowledged until the build-up to WrestleMania XXV, when it suddenly was front-and-center as part of the Triple Hs feud with Randy Orton. Since then, Triple H and Stephanie have gone on to become the ultimate onscreen power couple, with Hunter fully embracing his corporate position within WWE and incorporating it into his storyline persona. Today, The Authority is the top heel faction in the WWE and has dominated PPV and television matches and angles for nearly a year now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uS6Gf3U12I Keeping all that straight makes fans heads hurt, so you can only imagine what it must do to a non-fan. Regardless, we are seeing the successors to the Evil Mr. McMahon character on WWE television. It just so happens that they are a married couple who got their start together portraying a married couple before they were dating.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
