10 Times Triple H Was RIDICULOUSLY Selfish At WWE WrestleMania

1. 23 Seconds, T-T-T

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23 seconds.

The stakes driving Triple H's WrestleMania XIX programme with Booker T were very dubious. Trips, in full Ric Flair circa 1989 mode - in everything bar the greatness - pitched himself as the platonic ideal of a World Heavyweight Champion. He was dominant. Affluent. Classy. White. Booker T, to his mind, belonged nowhere near the picture. His kind of people were not World Heavyweight Champion material. Book, with his nappy hair, was there to entertain - dance! - and not wrestle.

White people > black people, basically.

"I laughed my ass off thinking about you challenging me for the World Heavyweight Title!"

Triple H also metaphorically laughed in Book's face at 'Mania XIX itself, after dropping him with the Pedigree, and waiting a full 23 seconds to crawl over and pin him. Even a delay of five seconds, following a kickout, is a transparent means of protecting a finisher. Triple H, by doing the exact opposite, did everything but protect Book. It was startling, even by the standards of his Reign Of Terror. A rags to riches to rags tale, the feel-good factor never materialised. This was, conclusively, the most counterproductive and outright depressing feud in wrestling history.

White people > black people, basically.

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