16 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Triple H
14. "AM I F*CKNG GOING OVER?!"
To the much-missed Power Slam magazine for a tidbit of life working under the thumb, or sledgehammer, of Triple H during his relentless stranglehold of Monday Night Raw between 2002 and 2005.
Speaking to respected writer Matthew Randazzo, an anonymous writer shared the tale of trying to get his creative green-lit by 'The Game', and it not going all that well for the man who wasn't wearing the title and/or bonded to the McMahons by marriage. The needlessly cruel process went as follows;
"[HHH] grabbed the script, flipped through it but did not read it, and asked me point-blank: 'Am I f*cking going over?’ This first time that I delivered the script to him, he did indeed win his match, so I said yes. Then he politely gave the script back to me without reading it and said, ‘That’s all I needed to know,’ and walked back into the McMahon locker room. A few months later...I delivered another RAW script to him...it was the same routine. He nonchalantly flipped through it and said, ‘Am I f*cking going over?’ This time, however, he was to lose his match via disqualification. He would keep his title. I said to him, ‘Well, sort of.’ Then Hunter froze. He said, ‘What do you f*cking mean, sort of?’ I said, ‘You lose the match via DQ, so you still keep the title.’, ‘What page?’ he growled. After I told Hunter the page number this occurred on, he ripped that page out, threw the rest of the script to the floor in a rage, and slammed the door in my face. Needless to say, the next day during the agents’ meeting, the script had somehow changed and now HHH won his match – cleanly. This was hardly an isolated incident.”
A truly terrible time to watch WWE weekly, it was all about 'The Game'. Just like it was nearly a decade later when a star emerged that was bright enough to boot him into retirement once and for all.
Well, unless he happened to be a skinny fat-*ss...