There's little to get terribly excited about during the dry Goldust/Triple H singles match (that didn't belong on a Royal Rumble pay-per-view let alone WrestleMania), but there was little to get excited about during Goldust and Triple H's entire WWE careers until the respective introductions of Marlena and Chyna into their acts.
The two were natural rivals on size disparity alone - few were able to get the "amazonian" new bodyguard over quite as impressively as the slight Terri Runnels, left literally and figuratively hook as she was so often in mid-1997.
The future 'Ninth Wonder Of The World', even more than Shawn Michaels or 'The Game' himself, was the person that got Triple H over - the evidence is clearer here than perhaps any other breakthrough moment for the pair.
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