Perfect Timing
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Post by Perfect Timing on Feb 28, 2019 9:56:22 GMT -5
It seems a weird choice...were you surprised at the time?
Also how did it come about, seems to me one week he was a snob the next he was teaming with HBK.
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Post by Dub H on Feb 28, 2019 9:57:20 GMT -5
Because his backstage buddies were  |
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Feb 28, 2019 10:00:44 GMT -5
He was still a snob, Hunter just wanted to fit in so he pretended poop jokes were the bomb.
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 28, 2019 10:02:45 GMT -5
Helmsley, after battling the likes of Goldust and Mankind in 1997, realized the only way to defeat filthy minded degenerate perverts was to become one himself.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Feb 28, 2019 10:09:02 GMT -5
What if he was just a degenerate masquerading as a rich snob who only kept the charade because nobody else was degenerate?
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Feb 28, 2019 10:12:46 GMT -5
What if he was just a degenerate masquerading as a rich snob who only kept the charade because nobody else was degenerate? Yeah, that's kinda the impression I got. He was always that childish dickhead at heart but he felt like he had to lie about himself in order to get a better chance at success. |
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Feb 28, 2019 10:39:54 GMT -5
HBK corrupted him.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 28, 2019 10:43:24 GMT -5
Cactus Jack broke him, that's why he had such a big reaction to him coming back in 2000.
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 28, 2019 11:04:56 GMT -5
He... degenerated. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 11:08:59 GMT -5
Subtle critique of the aristocracy.
Maybe he had a picture of himself that became grotesque even as he remained immaculate despite his sordid life of excess?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 11:11:40 GMT -5
Didn't have cable during his transition, so I was really, really confused when I started watching again.
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riseofsetian1981
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Feb 28, 2019 11:16:55 GMT -5
According to Shawn in his book he said he always felt the snob blue blood gimmick didn't fit Hunter. Given that the product was changing he told Hunter that he needed to be himself and showcase more of his comedic side.
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Post by chronocross on Feb 28, 2019 11:22:26 GMT -5
I think they were forced to team up by commissioner Slaughter on the 8/18/97 Raw against Taker and Mankind and acted like they didn’t want to do it and then just stuck with it afterwards.
I think that’s how it went down anyways.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 11:23:45 GMT -5
So was there any sort of story to explain the change, or did he just randomly come out with a leather jacket on one day and they pretended like the blue blood character never existed?
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Post by abjordans on Feb 28, 2019 11:32:25 GMT -5
A lot of rich kids are the biggest degenerates. Especially when they start hanging out with a bad influence.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 11:35:45 GMT -5
I always took it like he pretty much always had that side to him and was bottling it up.
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Post by Prince Petty on Feb 28, 2019 11:40:44 GMT -5
I think they were forced to team up by commissioner Slaughter on the 8/18/97 Raw against Taker and Mankind and acted like they didn’t want to do it and then just stuck with it afterwards. I think that’s how it went down anyways. Didn't one of them have a match with Mankind that the other interfered in, because they were in a feud with Mankind? That may have been after this tag match, I don't remember. It made some sense to me at the time (perhaps because I didn't like either of them), as I think Hunter had been dropping a lot of the blue blood stuff, since Chyna came in as his sidekick. The bit that always baffled me was Rick Rude. He never felt like he belonged in that group, particularly with the serious, suited persona. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 11:44:24 GMT -5
It wasn't a sudden degeneration. It was a very gradual degeneration that Hunter masked with the facade of a snobby aristocrat. Being friends with guys who routinely pointed at their genitalia and told other people to "suck it" chipped away his false veneer until the Hunter who once bowed respectfully was shoving his crotch in our faces and beating it with the edges of his hands.
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Post by bitteroldman on Feb 28, 2019 12:48:26 GMT -5
Subtle critique of the aristocracy. Maybe he had a picture of himself that became grotesque even as he remained immaculate despite his sordid life of excess? Oscar Wilde claims gimmick infringement |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 12:51:54 GMT -5
I can explain this in canon.
“Gimmicks” are a thing in the kayfabe world of wrestling. This has been acknowledged before. Triple H was playing the ROLE of a Blueblood Snob in order to make himself noticed. When that wasn’t working, he said “f*** it” and decided to take on the machine with his buddy HBK.
There you have it. My best explanation.
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