7 Times Payback Wasn't Delivered In WWE

2. Triple H Proves Himself Correct

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For a while in 2002 and 2003, Triple H was all over Monday Night RAW. He was gifted the World Heavyweight Championship by Eric Bischoff, and with the help of Ric Flair and his cronies in Evolution would hold on to that title via ever more nefarious means. Heading into WrestleMania XIX Hunter was challenged by a red-hot Booker T.

The build towards the match is famous for the wrong reasons. Triple H gave a number of promos with questionable content, with thinly-disguised racism sullying the feud at every single turn.

Anyone with even the vaguest understanding of wrestling was ready for Booker to shut the privileged champion up, defeating him and proving him wrong on the biggest stage of them all.

Nope, not quite. Triple H defeated Booker T at WrestleMania, taking everything Booker could throw at him and then defeating him with a Pedigree and a cover that seemed to come an age after.

Despite all of the inherently-offensive things he said in the build up, Triple H was never on the losing end of a battle with Booker T.

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