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4. Triple H: Being A Star

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Triple H was this week inducted into the Boys & Girls Clubs of America Hall of Fame.

For the uninitiated, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America association is designed to create a safe and nurturing environment for kids across the United States. WWE has partnered with it to help drive its anti-bullying PR exercise, which is a punchline in and of itself, but installing Triple H into its Hall of Fame is even more laughable.

Triple H in 2010 told a returning Lilian Garcia that if she "wants to come back here for night to the WWE, just to horse around, she can do it." Get it? Because Triple H thinks she has equine features? If the subtlety of Trips' comic stylings is still too much for some to grasp, Jerry Lawler helpfully shed light on the punchline by making snorting noises. His crack was totally unnecessary. It's not as if she was a threat to his stranglehold at the top of the card, for Christ's sake.

The organisation's purpose is set out as follows: "Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and influence."

How did Triple H help out the new kids in school in, say, 2006? Why, he bungled five of WWE's best developmental prospects into a box and waved away any suggestions that the contents needed to be insured. They weren't, as he so eloquently put it, "worth a cr*p".

They didn't belong with the big boys, so Trips sent them right back to elementary school. And now he's in the Hall of Fame of an organisation dedicated to helping schoolchildren fit in.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!