4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 41 - Night 1 (Results & Review)

5. More Gratuitous Triple H Camera Time

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If you didn’t get your fill of Triple H after a 90-minute verbal fellating during the Hall of Fame ceremony Friday night, have no fear, there was a bit more for everyone during night one of WrestleMania 41.

A video package that HHH narrated opened the show, which segued to an in-ring welcome… from Triple H. Later, during the Hall of Fame recognition on the stage, everyone was already out on their spots – including Bret “Hitman” Hart and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin – and then headliner Triple H got his entrance music and made the rounds to shake everyone’s hand.

As mentioned previously, yes, it’s Triple H’s show now, and he’s contributed greatly to the company’s resurgence. But the false modesty he espouses rings hollow when you start adding up these spotlights for The Game.

Knowing he was narrating the video and would get a full entrance for the HOF segment, why not designate the one singles champion who doesn’t have a match at WrestleMania – Chelsea Green – to handle the welcome as a host? Or another Hall-of-Famer?

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.