10 Most Hated Wrestlers Of All Time

6. Triple H

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Did Vince McMahon ever take a photograph with his new star signing? Gedo? Bill Watts? Jerry Jarrett? Tony Khan?

So why does Triple H?

Is he truly so ecstatic that these men and women have come aboard, or won championships? Or is this practice Triple H letting us all know what nous he has for spotting talent, when really, all he ever did was ctrl+f **** in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter?

If people are suspicious about that, they loathed him for much of his in-ring career. Triple H, after a tremendous run in the Attitude Era, declined as a worker following a quadricep tear in 2001, after which via sexually transmitted nepotism he held onto that spot for dear life. This was enabled chiefly by being a complete d*ck, burying all around him to look less past-it by association. He didn't tower over the competition in 2003, so he wore their corpses as lifts in his big boy boots. His matches mostly reeked - slow, plodding, arrogant emulations of the Kings he was the apparent King of - and he won so many of them despite only ever receiving the reaction a true company Ace commands on one night of his career: January 7, 2002.

That "pissant company" dig drastically misread the room, too, but he doesn't know that.

Every week, when those ratings come in, he stares at his hands in disbelief.

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