What WWE WON'T Tell You About Triple H's Legacy

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Triple H drew more crickets than money with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 32, Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 33, and Batista at WrestleMania 34. He contrived - with glee in his eyes - to make Goldberg boring. He wrestled a million matches with Randy Orton; two were memorable for the wrong reasons.

His methodical slogs with Brock Lesnar were criminally tedious and damaging to the 'Beast''s aura, so much so that Triple H feigned retirement and nobody gave an audible or visible sh*t. His WrestleMania 25 match with Randy Orton was an embarrassment, or at least it would have been, were Triple H familiar with the concept of shame, which his WrestleMania entrances all but rule out. This silent tedium echoed his failure to convincingly headline WrestleMania X8 with Chris Jericho, a night on which he again struggled to not get comprehensively blown away by men far better or more over than he was.

And therein lies the bullsh*t: if WWE presents Triple H as a great on the 25th, much like they have for virtually his entire career, why did he always struggle to rise up to them?

Here's another question: post-2001, who just couldn't follow a blow-away awesome Triple H match?

One could make the argument that, statistically, if Triple H is a supposed great, he is the most overrated pro wrestler ever.

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