Women want him. Men want to BE
him. | 1- HHH Never Jobs. I guess the Smarks are following the
admonition to "Always Lie Big." Either that, or they figure
that guys The Rock, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho,
Kurt Angle, Steve Austin, D'Lo Brown (!) and The
Brooklyn Brawler (!!!) just don't count. By the way, how many times
has Steve Austin jobbed to the Brawler recently? Hmmm. The point is that
Main Eventers just don't job as much as, say, Al Snow does. Austin and
The Rock jobbed even LESS than H during their heyday, a fact Smarks
conveniently seem to forget. 2- HHH Never Puts Anyone Over. Unless you count Jericho (MOTY candidate,
Last Man Standing, put Jericho in the Main Event) Benoit (another MOTY
candidate, remained a Main Eventer until the Rock no-sold him 182 matches
in a row), TAKA (H is the only man in the Fed to NOT mercilessly squash
the guy), Kurt Angle (speaks for itself.) Of course, the Smarks whine
that "H didn't put them over, they got over themselves". Yeah,
right. When a guy H puts over fails to seize the opportunity, the Smarks
whine that it's "all H's fault". When they DO seize the
opportunity, "H had nothing to do with it." Where I come from,
this is called "hypocrisy". 3- HHH Runs Everything
Backstage! Yes, and Kane is an Undead Monster
From Hell! The Undertaker can Steal Mens Souls!
Gangrel is a Vampire! Vince McMahon
is sleeping with Trish Stratus! Sheese. Learn to tell the
difference between a Promo and Real Life, willya already?!? Sure, Triple
H comes out and says "Nothing happens in this company unless I want
it too!" But, see folks, that's what We In The Know like to call an
Angle. 4- H Books Himself In Every Angle.
Whoa, this one blows me away. The same folks that apparently have no idea
what an Angle even IS are accusing H of running all of them. This one
frustrates me, because how do you deal with this kind of insanity? It's
like trying to convince a madman that the Sun isn't really made of Tofu.
If they're so irrational that they actually believe such a concept,
there's nothing anyone can do to convince them otherwise. I'll merely
point out that H is involved in exactly one Angle as of this writing: His
feud with Steve Austin. 5- H Stole the Royal Rumble Title
Shot. You'd think
that even the densest Smark would realize that a professional wrestler is
expected to WRESTLE occasionally. The Rumble was H's first one-on-one
title shot in about a year. Gee, what a selfish bastard. Never mind that
H had been wrestling Mid-Card through most of 2000, and had been out of
action for a month due to injury. Never mind that if H were as
egomaniacal and all-powerful as the Smarks claim, he hardly would have
been absent from the Contendership for months, vacating his spot to
Benoit, Jericho, Kane, Taker, and just about everyone else in the Fed.
Never mind that he JOBBED at the Rumble to BOTH Kurt Angle and Steve
Austin (and here I thought he never jobbed). They didn't seem to care
when Austin stole Regal's title shot. They didn't seem to care
when Crash Holly got a title shot. You heard no sobs or whimpers from
them when the Rock was randomly stuffed into main events. I think this
goes back to the fact that the Smarks don't quite get the concept of
"Face" and "Heel". For their edification: A Face is a
wrestler that's paid to be a fictional Good Guy. A Heel is a wrestler
that's paid to be a fictional Bad Guy. I thought Smarks were supposed to
know things like that. 6- H Only Knows Four Moves. Another example "tell an insane
enough lie, and some people will assume it's true just because of how
obviously wrong it is". Okay now, I love Chris Benoit. But let's do
a brief comparison of "Mr. Technical" to "The Game"
at say, the Royal Rumble:
BENOIT | HHH | Suplex | High Knee | Chops O'
Plenty | Facebuster | Tope Suicida | Knee Wrench |
Diving Headbutt | Indian Deathlock |
Falling Suplex Out Of Ring | Kneebreaker | Shoulderbreaker | Grapevine |
Crippler Crossface | Drop Toe Hold |
| Figure Four |
| DDT |
| Razor's Edge |
| Pedigree |
And
notice I even gave Benoit the benefit of listing his chops, and listed
his Suplex twice. And H didn't even break out the Neckbreaker or Running
Knee this time. The fact is that Triple H has just about the biggest
moveset in Pro Wrestling, and unlike most other wrestlers, he's
constantly adding to it instead of just coasting.
7- H Is Just Like
Nash/Hogan. Yeah,
well, it sounds clever and all to say things like that, as long as you're
sure you'll never have to back it up with facts. H is only like Nash and
Hogan to the extent that all three have had periods of immense
popularity. I guess some people just can't handle anyone being
successful. The implied (but never stated directly) attempts to equate
HHH with Nash/Hogan in terms of laziness/arrogance are so completely nuts
that it's no wonder the Smarks always phrase it in terms of what
"will eventually happen". Let's compare H with Nash, something
the Smarks love to do in hints and nudges, but never directly because
even they know how stupid they'd look: H and Nash were
friends, fellow Clique members with Hall and
Michaels. Of the four, only ONE constantly improved his skills,
worked MORE instead of less, and overcame incredible obstacles to become
the hardest worker in the business: HHH. Where are the others?
Getting fat with the WCW, facing jail time, or sitting around their Ranch
planning their next PR event. After the MSG "Curtain Call" fiasco,
Paul "HHH" Leveque was official Whipping Boy for the entire
Federation. They didn't dare punish Shawn Michaels, they couldn't touch
Nash or Hall, so they humiliated Triple H. Constant jobbing, demotion to
curtain jerker, virtual banishment from television- Nobody would of
blamed him for calling it quits. But instead, H stepped up his game. He
worked his ass off to make himself the MVP of wrestling today. And he did
it without screwing over anyone, whining, or succumbing to laziness or
drugs the way so many of his fellows did. You know, even though there's plenty
of proof of his generosity, I wouldn't blame HHH if he DID use his
influence to further his carreer. I doubt that there's a single Smark out
there who, if offered a promotion at work, would say "oh, no, I'm
unworthy, give the raise to Joe instead", yet they continually bitch
and moan over the fact that Triple H works his ass off to stay at the top
of the business. Give it a rest already. If H is on top, it's because he
worked hard to get there, and the vast majority of fans want him
there. |