10 Wrestlers Who Didn't Care About Kayfabe
8. Triple H
The thing some people tend not to like about Triple H - beyond of course working the same pattern and length of match for 25 years - is that he likes to have his cake and Pedigree it too, and then wait 23 seconds to make the cover to teach it a damn lesson about this business.
He's a staunch Harley Race acolyte, shaped in ring style and psychology by sacred traditions, but put a microphone in his hand and a promising midcard act across the ring from him and he will ruthlessly expose the fiction of it all to get himself "f*cking" over. Kofi Kingston used to have a Jamaican accent - and as awful as it was it was better then Triple H's French - but he wouldn't have dared point that out because, "you see," only Triple H may break kayfabe. In 2006, John Cena happened to "not be a very good pro wrestler," but he must have been, fans thought, since he was the WWE Champion.
But, "you see," Triple H was referring to Cena's perception within in-the-know circles to babyface himself as...the heel...
By the damn good standards of the 2000s, WrestleMania 22 drew a 4/10 buy rate.