The Rise Of Triple H | Wrestling Timelines

April 7, 2013 - WrestleMania 29

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Triple H works a long match bereft of heat against Brock Lesnar.

Four years on from his disaster with Randy Orton, Triple H once again fails to get it. He puts his career on the line, having lost to Lesnar at SummerSlam 2012. There, he had motioned to retire with tears in his eyes. Either nobody bought it, or nobody cared. The loud silence was humiliating.

The silence is sustained across 24 minutes in the cold MetLife Stadium. A slow, attritional match bombs; despite the stipulation, there is zero sense of jeopardy. The action is unexciting, and the total lack of emotional investment does not compensate for it. Triple H, top babyface, does not work - even when he pretends he might be doing it for the last time.

Triple H wins - at WrestleMania, against Brock Lesnar.

Yes, Triple H retcons WrestleMania 29 does a job at Extreme Rules to lose the trilogy 1-2, but the programme is so detrimental to Brock’s killer aura that he breaks the Undertaker’s streak next year in order for WWE to maximise their huge investment.

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