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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 23:58:06 GMT -5
It's easy to make fun of HHH, but I do think he's legitimately one of the best of all time.
That said, holy shit, I'm so tired of these matches. It wasn't the worst match ever by any means, but unless an NXT guy like Aleister Black ends up kicking his head off and retiring him, I wish he'd hang them up after tonight anyway. Let him do the executive thing and show up from time to time as a face authority figure, but I'm starting to think he doesn't have it anymore either.
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Apr 8, 2019 0:00:07 GMT -5
I really liked the match, but HHH definitely needs to hang it up. Batista taking some hard bumps is what saved the match for me.
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Post by Lt. Palumbo on Apr 8, 2019 0:04:28 GMT -5
For real. I can't remember exactly when (To be fair I can't remember my own name at the moment) but I'm certain it's not the first time one of his grinding matches has sucked the air out of a building. It's just selfish
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Apr 8, 2019 0:05:22 GMT -5
His entrances seem to be an excuse to get a custom vehicle now. The car slowly driving through the titantron in silence with an obvious old man driver in makeup was pretty funny.
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Post by Lt. Palumbo on Apr 8, 2019 0:07:11 GMT -5
Hunter's got to stop working with dudes who are his age or older. He should be the Jerry Lawler of matches
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 0:09:23 GMT -5
I cooked dinner when he came on. I watch the stream on my phone. Missed the enterace missed the ending. Didn’t care. Like I said in the mania thread we and wwe will forget this match happened by Wednesday. Unlike his garbage matches with Rollins or Reigns it doesn’t effect anyone on the roster and I’ll be watching Batista in endgame in a few weeks.
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Post by northernmonkey on Apr 8, 2019 0:15:31 GMT -5
Had a nap because his matches last foreeeveerr
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 8, 2019 0:17:21 GMT -5
I had fun, but I'd be cool with this being his last hurrah for a long while.
Batista wanted this match, and considering that, this was about as good as you could possibly have made it.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Apr 8, 2019 0:18:34 GMT -5
I liked it quite a bit.
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Post by ayumidah on Apr 8, 2019 0:22:53 GMT -5
hahah I was looking st the Wiki page to see what was left, and his match was the longest at 24:45. Daniel and Kofi's went 23:45.
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Post by deadzeppelin on Apr 8, 2019 0:23:14 GMT -5
Triple H's "Look how badass and cool I am" entrances at Mania are my least favorite part of the show every year. I love Triple H and his role in NXT, he's doing incredible stuff there. His in ring shit is go away heat of the highest degree though.
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Post by Gus Richlen: Ruffian on Apr 8, 2019 0:35:28 GMT -5
Well, he has to keep himself entertained somehow, some way until he can finally take over the main shows. Which may be a while.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Apr 8, 2019 0:39:26 GMT -5
The first six minutes was fine. Honestly, if the match went about six minutes, it would have been a perfectly decent presence, it was just the 15 minutes added onto it that made it a chore. They should have killed each other back and forth, had Triple H kill him, then had the post-match pliers nose piercing spot as a post-match revenge thing. Also the nose piercing thing was cool but as someone who had to get a stuck septum piercing out of his sister's nose with pliers a few months ago its brutality was a bit underwhelming just because I know all he did was break it and slip it out of the piercing hole.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 8, 2019 0:41:35 GMT -5
For real. I can't remember exactly when (To be fair I can't remember my own name at the moment) but I'm certain it's not the first time one of his grinding matches has sucked the air out of a building. It's just selfish His Brock match probably started this, though the utter absurd forced epicness of the Taker matches probably gave him the belief he needed to keep doing shit like that forever.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Apr 8, 2019 0:47:50 GMT -5
If we cut 10 minutes off of all of Triple H's main event level Mania matches, it would improve pretty much all of them.
He thinks he can work these epic 20-30 minute matches at all of these shows when he's been so over-exposed all these years.
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Post by mauled on Apr 8, 2019 1:55:09 GMT -5
He's a disgrace. This is why I don't trust him to run the company. Far more talented people deserved that time. He hasn't had a good non gimmick wrestling match since he blew his first quad back in 01. You're right not to trust him. He's been like that his whole career. He admits he asked Terry Taylor who to suck up too and pointed him towards the Kliq. People celebrating Kofis win forget that in 03 Trips racist burial of Booker "you're kind don't make good champions" The Reign of Terror ruined a lot of great Stars because of him. Vince loved him because of the whole bodybuilder thing so had him on the booking committee and gave him the keys to the kingdom since 97.
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Post by jagilki on Apr 8, 2019 1:58:38 GMT -5
Just wait for next year when it's Flair vs. HHH
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Apr 8, 2019 1:59:49 GMT -5
His entrances seem to be an excuse to get a custom vehicle now. The car slowly driving through the titantron in silence with an obvious old man driver in makeup was pretty funny. I really need to see this entrance.
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Post by Prince Petty on Apr 8, 2019 2:04:16 GMT -5
For all the goodwill that Triple H gets for his work in NXT, and as genuine and generous as he always is with those guys, every once in a while you get a reminder that he is a man with a vast ego, and vast insecurities about people not respecting him as one of the greatest (which, quite frankly, he isn't). Unfortunately, that reminder comes along every Wrestlemania, and we get an entrance that's right out of the imaginings of a thirteen year old boy, and then a slow, plodding match that everyone is supposed to appreciate as masterful and a perfection of the art of wrestling.
The only match of his I've enjoyed in years was the tag match with Steph against Ronda and Kurt. And that's because he checked his ego at the door and did what was needed to get Ronda over as a star.
So if you want Batista to have a match, and he wants Triple H? Fine. Go for it, because Batista is a big name, inside and outside wrestling. But don't have the longest match on the card, when there are people twenty years younger than you, who are far better equipped to entertain the fans.
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Post by schma on Apr 8, 2019 3:04:26 GMT -5
There were good parts to this match but it should have been 10-15 minutes max, not 25ish minutes. When they started kicking out of finishers I mentally rolled my eyes because that was about the time the match should have been wrapping up. They'd done what they needed to, said what they needed to, the rest was superfluous.
Time for the guy to hang up his boots at least as far as 'Mania goes.
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