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Triple H was originally planned to headline Wrestlemania X7 with Austin and Rock

Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 01:35:03 No.13976410 View View Reply Original Report

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HAHAHAHAHAAHA

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 01:37:26 No.13976442 Report

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No wonder WWE is such an unmitigated success in every metric with him at the helm

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 01:38:26 No.13976460 Report

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He's right about that clusterfuck from the year before they even brought Foley back when his retirement match was a month earlier.

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 02:15:28 No.13976883 Report

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based h

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 02:20:53 No.13976926 Report

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>>13976410
I love how this completely shits all over the narrative surrounding him and people preconceptions of what he was like back then. That's selfless as hell putting the integrity of the show above yourself given those circumstances and what exactly he was passing up. Classy move. There aren't a ton of instances I can think of people doing something like that. Only other one that comes to mind is Edge refusing to accept the offer of beating the Undertaker at WM24

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:03:46 No.13977748 Report

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>>13976410
i simply don't believe that he would have turned that down. nobody wrestler would have.

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:05:59 No.13977770 Report

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>No that's ok Vince I don't need to headline wrestlemania
Lmao

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:08:31 No.13977796 Report

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>>13976410
I’m sure that’s Trips’ version that he tells people

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:09:32 No.13977807 Report

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>>13976926
Yeah that’s IF you take his word on it now. Real easy to make shit up to revise history and perception just like with you. Immedaire

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:11:31 No.13977831 Report

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>>13976926
>main evented over hogan/rock in X8
>main evented over taker/hbk in wm25
He sure got ahead of himself after that then

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:13:30 No.13977856 Report

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>Yeah they wanted me in the main event, but I thought it'd be better if I wasn't there

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:15:22 No.13977882 Report

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>>13977831
In both of those instances his match was the title match. Which was always customary to go on last. And on paper it should have. You knew those others matches would be good but I don't think anyone genuinely expected either Rock and Hogan or Michaels and Undertaker to be every bit as good as they were. Had either of those been booked to go on last then there would've been much heavier expectations placed on both and who knows how differently they may have gone. It's not like Triple H benefited from his match placement on either of those shows. The crowds were fully spent by the time we went on

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:17:57 No.13977905 Report

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>>13977882
>Nobody expected Rock-Hogan and Michaels-Taker to be as good as they were

And everyone expected HHH-Jericho to be better than Rock-Hogan and HHH-Randy to be better than Taker-HBK?

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:19:05 No.13977913 Report

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>>13976410
i read somewhere that WM15 was originally pitched as a triple threat with Mick included but HBK convinced everyone the main event should stay a one on one

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:20:01 No.13977917 Report

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>>13977856
To be fair it doesn't not track considering Triple H spent from Survivor Series until No Way Out, which as the ppv right before Mania, feuding with Austin. His match with Undertaker was pretty out of left field compared to the entire story of him being the one who had Austin run over

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:21:04 No.13977925 Report

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>>13977905
Where did I say that? I said those two matches were the ones for the belt which was always customary to go on last. Step up that reading comprehension son

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:23:01 No.13977936 Report

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>>13977913
This seems plausible just because of how nothing of a match the Mankind and Big Show thing ended up feeling like. It sucks because that was a huge year for Foley and he was dealt dogshit for Mania but I can't imagine the first Austin and Rock main event having a third added to it

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:23:45 No.13977940 Report

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https://youtu.be/Cu18oxc0D3E?feature=shared
There's no way Triple H would fit into this

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:24:41 No.13977944 Report

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>>13977940
>1:30
He's literally in it

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:24:46 No.13977945 Report

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>>13977905
I disagree with the other anon because I think people were obviously more hyped for Hogan-Rock than Y2J-HHH, but at WM25 Taker-HBK was a nothing feud and HHH-Orton was the hottest thing on TV. It's one of the best built main events ever, which is why it being a total shitfest is even more jarring.

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:25:58 No.13977951 Report

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>>13977913
This is what happened, and what had been built for the past 4 months but Shawn tried to convince Vince that the main event of wrestlmania should always be 1v1, but he wanted Austin vs Foley. Vince agreed that it should be 1v1, but was dead set on it being Rock vs Austin, so Foley got thrown into a rushed together heatless Big Show match where he would be a guest ref if he won.

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 04:33:01 No.13977994 Report

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>>13976926
Retard, he was bluffing on that line. The writers decided to remove him it had nothing to do with Paul. There's no way Gaytch would turn that down

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 06:30:07 No.13978897 Report

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>>13977831
The title match went last.
If you think those are examples of him "politicing" in some way behind the scenes you may have HHH derangement syndrome.

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 06:33:27 No.13978914 Report

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>>13977831
Nothing wrong with either of these, but Paul booking himself to bury Randy at 25 is a classic Haitch move

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Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2024 06:34:33 No.13978923 Report

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>>13976410
Absolutely stupid on H's part. Everyone wanted to see the triple threat we never got at No Way out. Probably would have avoided an Austin Heel turn roo

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