8 Ups And 11 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 33

4. Another ‘Epic’ Triple H Match

Tripel H Stephanie McMahon Wrestlemania 33
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You have to wonder if the knee injury to Seth Rollins was part of the storyline simply to slow him down to Triple H’s speed. Because the unsanctioned match between the two really was a one-man show.

Rollins wrestling on one leg still carried the match, flinging himself around the ring with suicide dives, a crossbody off the ringpost to the floor, a frogsplash and a superplex into a Falcon Arrow. The Architect also took a beating from The Game, with Triple H methodically (that’s a polite way to put it) attacking Rollins’ knee and trading Pedigree attempts about 20 times.

It wasn’t a bad match, but it was long. On a show that already was long. Knowing they were running so far into the night already, maybe they should have trimmed about 5-10 minutes off this bout. But then again, it’s a Triple H WrestleMania match, which means we have to go for the most epic contest possible which means 25 minutes at least.

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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.