10 WWE Matches That Didn't Know When To End

3. Triple H Vs. Randy Orton - Super ShowDown 2019

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It really is hard not to litter all ten entries in this piece with Triple H matches, but three seems like a realistic limit for The Game's outings that went far longer than they ever needed to.

Make no mistake about it, Triple H was a truly elite level worker for years. Even then, mind, he had a habit of his matches often going on for far longer than was realistically necessary. Case in point, his Super ShowDown match against Randy Orton just last year.

In amongst their multitude of matches against each other over the years, it's often pointed out how the pair's WrestleMania XXV match just didn't know when to call it a day. That match would clock in at 25 plodding minutes, although there's the argument that this contest was the main event of that 2009 edition of the Showcase of the Immortals, that the match was for the WWE Championship, and that both Hunter and Randy were both premium workers still in their prime.

Skip ahead ten years to Super ShowDown, and there really is no excuse whatsoever for allocating another 25 minutes to an ice cold meeting between Randy Orton and a largely-retired Triple H.

Seth Rollins was given only 11 minutes as he defended the Universal Championship against Baron Corbin at that Saudi Arabia special, while Intercontinental Champion Finn Bálor was allotted the same time in his match against Andrade. For Orton and Triple H though, they were given over twice as long as any other singles match on the show - all for a match that should have ended with a solitary RKO.

In the end, we got to see a couple or RKOs and a Pedigree before all was said and done in a match that was at least 10 minutes too long.

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