10 Times Triple H Won WWE Matches He Should Have Lost
2. Vs Randy Orton (No Mercy 2007)
Vanity, vanity, vanity, the whole flippin' way.
Some rare organic chaos was permitted to reign in October 2007 after John Cena got injured just days before a scheduled WWE Championship match with Randy Orton. WWE only had the pay-per-view left to resolve the situation, which was a cooler hook than the original match itself.
Enter Triple H.
The show started with Vince McMahon awarding planned number one contender Orton with the gold, before the cool, funny, tough and handsome Hunter convinced them all to put the belt on the line there and then. And he only went and won it! What a useless tosser that 'Viper' is eh?! 'The King Of Kings' was scheduled to fight Umaga that night, and kept his booking with a hard-fought win before eventually putting Orton over in an impromptu main event that drew on how absolutely knackered he was. It was Last Man Standing to protect him taking a fall, too.
A*seholes like your writer might suggest that it wasn't a complete coincidence that Kurt Angle had worked three diverse and different matches on a TNA pay-per-view just weeks earlier and 'The Game' fancied a little bit of that acclaim.