10 Wrestlers You Won't Believe Never Had A Five Star Match
7. Triple H
Has there ever been a more divisive headline act than Triple H?
Those who rate him as one of the greats do so because his strategic and logical matches are often as epic as the categorically hilarious, overblown entrances that invariably precede them. Those who don't shrug at what they perceive as tedious slogs which make a euphemism of their "methodical" definition. There is much evidence for either argument. Though he wrestled a fantastic technical affair with Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania XXX, too much of his work on the Grandest Stage - most recently, WrestleMania 32's typical "WWE Big Match" opposite Roman Reigns - is overburdened by his own conventions. It was at 'Mania, however, that he received the closest grade to perfection in the pre-NJPW Wrestle Kingdom XI era at ****3/4.
Closest Candidate: Triple H Vs. The Undertaker, WrestleMania XXVIII.
The End Of An Era Hell In A Cell match was the culmination of a beautifully orchestrated four-year arc in which The Undertaker, in the face of the dual threat of Triple H and Shawn Michaels, was immortalised, humanised, symbolically killed off and mythologised once more. Trips played his part in the denouement perfectly - conducting the Miami crowd into such a crescendo that the Superkick/Pedigree near-fall remains the closest and most believable in company history.
It was the work of three masters, the very best of Triple H's carefully built sagas - but not, it would seem, good enough.