Triple H may as well retire.

[TheVoiceofReason]

To be quite honest, I see no reason for him to be on WWE television anymore. With the youth being pushed as of late, new factions forming, fresh faces rising to the main event scene, I question if Triple H has a place anymore. They should give him a proper send-off and whatnot, of course, but that send-off should be rather soon.

Perhaps they could put him in an angle with Tyler Reks, and he ends up being the one retiring Triple H. That would be a good method of pushing another new face, or make a last match between him and a former rival, and have the former rival win, properly sending Triple H off. Something along those lines. What do you all think?

[forgottensinpwf]

The fact that he's still more over than half the roster is reason enough for him to be on TV.

[TheVoiceofReason]

Feb 5, 2011 18:25:03 GMT -5 @forgottensinpwf said:

The fact that he's still more over than half the roster is reason enough for him to be on TV.

You can argue the same thing for Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan, and The Rock among others, yet they're now gone and the product is doing just fine. The product has been doing fine with Hunter working in corporate headquarters.

[golding]

Feb 5, 2011 18:30:42 GMT -5 TheVoiceofReason said:

You can argue the same thing for Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan, and The Rock among others, yet they're now gone and the product is doing just fine. The product has been doing fine with Hunter working in corporate headquarters.

And if the WWE could get any of those three back in some sort of capacity, you know they would.

[PKO]

When he comes back I hope it's to put over guys who will make up the next generation of WWE. And I mean hard fought, clean losses to Sheamus, John Morrison, Wade Barrett etc. He doesn't need to come back and win the title. He doesn't need to come back and beat all the guys that they're building up. But clean wins over HHH can help these men tremendously.

[Square]

I heard a interview with Nash on Tha O Show this week where he stated that the McMahons value Hunter's brain much more than they do his body, in the fact that they want him running the show rather than being the show.

[AnActualBear]

Feb 5, 2011 18:24:15 GMT -5 TheVoiceofReason said:

Perhaps they could put him in an angle with Tyler Reks, and he ends up being the one retiring Triple H. That would be a good method of pushing another new face

Congratulations. That's the worst idea I've ever heard.

[Y2M]

Tyler Reks? No.
Drew McIntyre or Eziekiel Jackson? Yes.

[Square]

Feb 5, 2011 18:36:33 GMT -5 AnActualBear said:

Feb 5, 2011 18:24:15 GMT -5 TheVoiceofReason said:

Perhaps they could put him in an angle with Tyler Reks, and he ends up being the one retiring Triple H. That would be a good method of pushing another new face

Congratulations. That's the worst idea I've ever heard.

Why? Reks is a menacing good wrestler that only needs a character and push to get him into a top spot ala Sheamus. Have Hunter come back for 6 months and give him the strap and have Reks go on a destructive path against jobbers as this loner character. Come Summerslam have HHH Vs Del Rio, Hunter wins and Reks just comes out of the back and DESTROYS him. Beats the ever loving crap out of him and does vicious non PG stuff to him and have Long come out the next week on Smackdown stating that Hunter has had to surrender the title and retire due to the injures caused by Tyler Reks.

[Deleted]

It will be a sad day when HHH retires.

[ben:friendship frog]

Problem is, any heat Sheamus got for putting Triple H on the shelf has now gone due to poor booking.

I'd say bring him back, Sheamus pins him cleanly at Mania, handshake and Triple H walks into the sunset IF he is retiring.

[Kay Faban]

Daniel Bryan should make him tap in 5 seconds.

Then Seth Rollins should debut and cut his head off.

Followed by Kong eating it and using Evan Bourne as a napkin.

[rnrk supports BLM]

I don't see Triple H ever having a clean, definitive "Now I'm retired" moment the way HBK did; the fact that he's working backstage now means he's going to be involved in the product for the forseeable future, and I can easily see HHH coming out for a special attraction match or two every year, for at least the next 10-15 years.

[britishbulldog]

After HHH and Taker retire, there will be very very few old school guys left. This makes me sad.

[Bub (BLM)]

Feb 5, 2011 18:49:05 GMT -5 britishbulldog said:

After HHH and Taker retire, there will be very very few old school guys left. This makes me sad.

That's why they need to build up guys like Daniel Bryan, Sheamus, and Drew McIntyre. They're old-school trained, and have wrestled all over the place. I dread the day WWE consists of a bunch of generic FCW guys.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Feb 5, 2011 18:48:33 GMT -5 rnrk supports BLM said:

I don't see Triple H ever having a clean, definitive "Now I'm retired" moment the way HBK did; the fact that he's working backstage now means he's going to be involved in the product for the forseeable future, and I can easily see HHH coming out for a special attraction match or two every year, for at least the next 10-15 years.

With all Hunter's talk about the pact that him and HBK have, about them telling each other when it's time to hang it up if they stick around too long, I think he knows there is a definitive end to his in ring career sometime in the near future.

Hell, in most of his recent interviews he's really made it sound like he's planning on winding down soon. He seems really focused on his ever expanding backstage role, and sounds like he's looking forward to making the full time transition.

[Fiddleford H. McGucket]

Feb 5, 2011 18:40:39 GMT -5 Square said:

Feb 5, 2011 18:36:33 GMT -5 AnActualBear said:

Congratulations. That's the worst idea I've ever heard.

Why? Reks is a menacing good wrestler that only needs a character and push to get him into a top spot ala Sheamus. Have Hunter come back for 6 months and give him the strap and have Reks go on a destructive path against jobbers as this loner character. Come Summerslam have HHH Vs Del Rio, Hunter wins and Reks just comes out of the back and DESTROYS him. Beats the ever loving crap out of him and does vicious non PG stuff to him and have Long come out the next week on Smackdown stating that Hunter has had to retire due to the injures caused by Tyler Reks.

I'm actually going to agree and disagree on Tyler Reks here.....on the one hand, that IS probably THE best way to put over a new monster as some unstoppable killing machine. If anyone doubts that they're a guy that can "Get Things Done"...then thay're sadly mistaken......Here's the rub though...

1. You can only do it once......It's the same reason why i'm against anyone breaking "The Streak" or cleanly going over certain legends in thier debuts/first years/first "BIG FOUR" PPV.....you can only do it once. You f*** that up and give it to someone that can't "Carry" that sort of responsibility you've lost a potential draw FOREVER. You can't un-do certain booking decisions and WWE really can't afford to make booking decisions it can't un-do. I don't think Reks is a big enough of a draw to warrant that.

2. I truly believe that the Fans would turn on Reks in an INSTANT if he went over HHH. I'm not a blind HHH fan, nor someone that believes that he's evil incarnate......but depending on how they did it, I truly believe that the fans simply wouldn't believe it. For the smarks....you have a man that's Main Evented Wrestlemanias being taken out by a guy that was (Until the last month or so) regularly LEFT OFF of Superstars.....essentially slightly above FCW rookies on the "Totem Pole".

3. Now you wanna know the sad part though? You give me a "New" monster.....someone that hasn't freaked out on a plane-ride, debuted as a surfer, and then disappeared for nearly a year destroying the"King of Kings".....I think I could buy it. Basically Tyler Reks's previous record is simply too recent to take him seriously as a monster "worthy" of sidelining/retiring HHH.

[MolotovMocktail]

If he does, he should be on creative. People who have been in the ring are in the best position to judge talent, and have seen firsthand what works and what does not as far as drawing money and heat. HHH himself has had to endure Wrestlecrap gimmicks before (blue blood when he debuted), and he would know that kind of thing wouldn't get over very long, and not to replicate it. He, HBK, and Taker when he retires as an active wrestler should be running the creative side due to their nearly 30 years combined wrestling experience as opposed to zero for the current writing staff.

[jrcz]

MAY! i hate this word.

[Citizen Zero]

Feb 5, 2011 19:08:56 GMT -5 MolotovMocktail said:

If he does, he should be on creative. People who have been in the ring are in the best position to judge talent, and have seen firsthand what works and what does not as far as drawing money and heat. HHH himself has had to endure Wrestlecrap gimmicks before (blue blood when he debuted), and he would know that kind of thing wouldn't get over very long, and not to replicate it. He, HBK, and Taker when he retires as an active wrestler should be running the creative side due to their nearly 30 years combined wrestling experience as opposed to zero for the current writing staff.

I'd be hesitant to think that having them take over booking is going to be a cure-all to the WWE's problems.

...After all, it's not like having wrestlers take over booking helped out WCW.