Fantasy Booking Triple H's FIRST WWE WrestleMania

9. Edge Vs. Karrion Kross

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The latter part of Triple H's run as booker was typified by one value - near-laughable intensity - which is a neat segue for a very, very Triple H match idea: Edge Vs. Karrion Kross.

Mauro Ranallo screaming at the top of his f*cking lungs calling heel in black trunks versus heel in black trunks matches after Slipknot welcomed the octogenarian audience to the broadcast with a 60 second blast of brutal metal: after 2019, NXT "black and gold" was a drab, intense show that was really quite alienating, so much so that it wasn't even perversely entertaining when it had every right to be. Edge Vs. Kross is a Triple H dream match: two histrionically serious guys with bulging eyes exhaling through their nose as they go face to face before threatening one another with every last synonym of "destroy".

"I'm going to eviscerate/annihilate/dismantle/maim/exterminate you at WrestleMania!"

*exhales through nose in defiance in response*

To be less reductive about things, there's some story to play with here: Edge's neck issues are well documented, have informed many of the stories upon his return, and Edge being an older vet on borrowed time meshes with the tick-tock schtick. Kross also has a signature move that targets the neck.

If Kross can make it look less like a deep tissue massage, it might be half-decent.

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