10 Things I Hate About Triple H
9. The Cheesy WrestleMania Entrances
“Everybody take cover! She's going to blow!”
The Terminator entrance at WrestleMania 31 was bad. The Conan ‘king of kings’ entrance back in 2006 was worse. This year’s post-apocalyptic Mad Max style gimmick was actually hilarious, with Stephanie doing some kind of weird megalomaniacal cartoon dictator’s speech while dressed as a dominatrix from a cheap eighties euro-porn movie.
Isn’t Triple H supposed to be playing this Horrible Boss who moonlights as an unreconstructed butt-kicker? If so, then why does he get a WrestleMania entrance like that, soaking up long, loooong minutes on a card that’s so stuffed that title matches are being placed on the pre-show?
It’s to stroke his own ego, of course. These huge, narcissistic entrances present him and his WrestleMania matches as being a defining point on every big show: as if, every year, people are debating for months in advance who Triple H will be facing at WrestleMania.
As much as he and Vince McMahon would like to pretend otherwise, no one apart from them thinks that Triple H is a WrestleMania main event in and of himself.
He’s just not on that rarefied level.