10 Things I Hate About Triple H

“Pardon me, Sir. Some of the ladies have asked if you wouldn't mind putting that thing away?”

To hear the late Joanie Laurer tell the story, she was engaged to Levesque when she found a love letter to him from Stephanie McMahon dated a year earlier.

When she spoke to Vince McMahon about it, he admitted to knowing about it all along. After a tense confrontation with Stephanie, Chyna was sent home and never appeared for the WWF/E again. Her contract expired at the end of that year, and was not renewed.

Since then, Chyna hadn’t exactly been the most stable of individuals, becoming involved in a tempestuous and drug-addled relationship with Triple H’s friend Sean ‘X-Pac’ Waltman, releasing a sex tape featuring the two of them and firing off multiple accusations of physical and sexual abuse at both men.

When asked about Chyna’s possible inclusion as a first ballot WWE Hall Of Famer, Levesque made not-so-cryptic allusions to her legitimate career in pornography, essentially saying that younger WWE fans would google her and find inappropriate stuff.

This was, of course, nonsense: many people continue to be inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame despite far worse on their resumes. Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist, Jake Roberts a reformed drug addict, ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin had issues with domestic violence.

What he really meant was that there’s no way Chyna could be trusted with a live mic in front of a crowd of thousands of his peers and fans: her history of instability and her habit of throwing serious allegations about made her a liability.

That would have been absolutely fair enough to offer as a legitimate reason for her being passed over... but might have brought the spotlight to bear on him and on their relationship.

Instead, he chose to cast aspersions upon her choice to film a few porn films with a well-regarded studio, which she considered to be one of the more positive and empowering experiences of her post-WWE life.

Oddly cowardly for such a supposed badass.