10 Wrestlers Who HATED Losing
4. Triple H
Deadening and infuriating at the time, the Triple H Reign of Terror has developed in hindsight a risible quality that can be enjoyed through the optics of schadenfreude.
In an infamous spot of apocrypha, which is so quintessentially Triple H that it cannot not be true, a timid Creative Writer once knocked on the man's door and handed him that night's RAW script. Triple H had a simple, if blunt, question:
"Am I f*cking going over?"
The Writer nodded his head yes. Trips, satisfied, closed the door in his face. The next week, the process began anew.
"Am I f*cking going over?"
This time, Triple H was f*cking going over....by disqualification. He was a heel, so that was customary under WWE's sports entertainment f*ck finish umbrella. This did not please HHH; he ripped the page up, and closed the door in his face. The finish was subsequently changed, and there's something so tragicomic about it. Triple H wasn't interested in showing ass, or developing a storyline, or anything like that. He was chiefly concerned about "f*cking going" over Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch at the same time, Jesus Christ. It's not as if he was a major draw, or anything.
Triple H, in addition to mastering the art of avoiding losing, has also mastered the art of losing. He shrugged at Jeff Hardy's Armageddon 2007 win - "Hey, every dog has his day!". He has lost so often at WrestleMania in the most important, longest match, but when he does the job, he frames it with high irony as the ultimate favour to his opponent.
"Fine, I'll do it!" he literally said of this year's match, as if he wouldn't have wrestled on two broken legs.