10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1998
6. You'll Never Guess Who Triple H Buried
No, not Scott Steiner. That happened in 2003.
No, not Goldberg. That also happened in 2003.
No, not Randy Orton. That happened in 2004 as part of a long-running vehicle to put Orton over (!).
No, not the entire tag team division, whose collective asses he kicked in handicap matches. That somehow happened more than once throughout the 2000s.
No, not literally the entire locker room, which he buried in 2011 to build his WrestleMania match against the Undertaker on the basis that "everybody else is trash and we're the only true challenge we each have left".
Still struggling?
Astonishingly, in 1998, Triple H buried Ric Flair in a radio interview.
Now, this might have something to do with the fact that Flair had that week re-signed with WCW after a protracted conflict between the two parties. It was a time of "war". Triple H could not reveal his very real respect for Flair's accomplishments because putting over the competition was verboten. Everything the competition did was automatically bad. Had Ric Flair signed with the WWF - a remote possibility, since no huge money offer was made - Triple H would have doubtlessly put Flair over as a legend that the inept WCW didn't know what to do with.
Still, given that Triple H patterned his awful early 2000s act around cosplaying as peak NWA Ric Flair - who was in his stable! - it is bizarre to recall that HHH said Flair was too old and should retire a few years prior.