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Why did Lita and Edge get backlash for cheating but Stephanie and Triple H didn't?

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#1 ·
It's really not fair? I also read that HHH wanted to fire Edge but he did the same thing. People were brutal towards Lita and Edge moreso towards Lita. Steph and HHh had an ongoing affair and HHH was cheating on Chyna with the slut Stephanie. So why didn't Steph and HHH get badklash from the fans but Edge and Lita did? King of unfair right?
 
#2 ·
First of all Edge was Matt's best friend. Steph had nothing with Chyna.

Triple H didn't cheat on her, they were broken up both on-screen and off-screen as a couple. Chyna herself said so until around 2002 when she changed the story to Hunter cheating on her and then a few years later she started claiming Triple H and Steph got her fired from WWE. Obviously a fat lie, since every wrestling insiders at that time including Observer already reported Vince let her go since she was demanding way more money than what her contract warranted. Basically Chyna lost all her credibility of truth with the wrestling community. Also, the fact that Triple H-Steph has been big time main event couple in WWF for a long time even before they started dating which meant the fans were already used to assuming they were together anyway. There was little reason to complain on that.
 
#7 ·
Because Matt had more Sympy than Chyna. He was well liked by the fans and they felt badly for him. Plus the mostly male audience could empathize with Matt about losing a girlfriend. They felt no empathy with Chyna coming up on ghe short end of the stick.

Fans saw HHH as being the Cerebral Assassin by going for the bosses daughter. " It's def. true that the red blooded male audience were way more enamored with Steph than Chyna, so they wanted to high five him.
 
#9 ·
1. It has not been proven Triple H cheated Chyna. Some people say Triple H started dating Stephanie only after he left Chyna.

2. Wrestling fans are predominantly male. They could sympathize over a male getting cheated on more than a female being cheated on.

3. Lita cheated on Matt with his best friend. That is absolutely disgusting especially to the male dominated wrestling audiences.

4. Triple H and Stephanie were already a couple on television. So people actually wanted them to be a couple in real life. Whereas WWF created a storyline with Lita cheating Matt.

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#11 ·
First off


Matt Hardy was an arrogant jackass who used to treat Lita like shit by calling her fat etc and acting like an ass hole to her like owned her.

He deserved having Lita being taken away from him you can tell he's an obsessive prick.

And Vince did punished Triple H he sent him back to the midcard scene when Vince found out about him and Steph. Triple H had to work his way back up on the card.
 
#14 · (Edited)
There's a grey area in the transition period between relationships. Maybe HHH and Chyna disagree when it was over. Nothing wrong with having your next relationship lined up while the previous one is in its last days.

A bunch of people attribute all of HHH's championships to being with Steph, so he gets a ton of shit for being with her.
 
#17 ·
Because people like and cared about Lita, Edge and Matt. No one gave a crap about Chyna. Plus theirs the fact that Stephanies is Vinces' daughter, yeah lets give the bosses daughter legit hear cause that wouldn't cause some career problems.
 
#18 ·
I was shocked at the affair. He cheated on Chyna, the ugly She-Hulk of wrestling with a younger, hotter Stephanie, who was also the boss' daughter. What was he thinking? :draper2

As for the different reactions, most of the audience is male and most of us will feel more sorry for a guy who gets cheated on than an ugly woman. Just how it is.
 
#21 · (Edited)
The answer is simple.
Why are you gone to give shit the to boss of the company you work for daughter or HHH who is known to bury people all the time?

As for the fans, did fans even know that Chyna and HHH were together and that HHH and Steph were really an item back then? Most thought it was just a storyline that Steph and HHH were together.

Not to mention Matt made a huge deal about it to everyone, where as Chyna didn't say anything on screen
 
#22 ·
emm they did.


but what i want to know is why doesnt sean waltman get heat for dating his best friends ex?
 
#25 ·
What unfair is Matt got fired for actually having an issue with Lita & Edge, what's unfair is that WWE used Edge's off-screen shit to further his and Lita's on-screen characters and it didn't benefit Matt that much at all.

Chyna being heartbroken is unfortunate but no part of her story can be verified considering it's changed several times since. She's since started claiming H beat her up, she just seems vindictive and will say anything to make them look bad.

HHH also has to live with the asterisk of being married to the boss' daughter for the rest of his life which taints all his major accomplishments.

Edge owes his entire main event run to his personal scumbag behavior because as an on-screen character he was never able to get over enough to warrant being a world champion despite his super pushes.
 
#27 ·
That is because Matt aired his dirty laundry so the whole world new about it and it put the WWF in a bad light. If Matt would have kept his mouth shut and just delt with it between him, Edge and Lita, he never would have gotten fired.

It go so bad the WWF had no choice but to use that heat and making it into a storyline, just like they did with the whole Bret Hart thing.
 
#28 ·
Two reasons:

Reason 1:

There is a double standard for men and women. When women stray, they are sluts, undesirable, nasty, fill in the blanks. When men stray, they are "trading up," easily forgiven and the issue, forgotten. In this case Triple H cheated on Chyna. He's forgiven, by the public. Lita cheated on Hardy, she is being slut-shamed. That is the society we live in.

Reason 2:

Triple H was cheating with the boss' daughter. Vince covered all this up, before the media could eat it up. He had his PR team fix the problem, like they fixed up her sleeping with Randy Savage, by making the story disappear. Lita didn't have that luxury. She was just another diva.
 
#30 ·
Edge was married (to the best friend of Jericho's wife lol) and he cheated on her with Lita (who was dating Matt Hardy for years). Matt Hardy got fired while Edge got a push (unfair). The Tiple H/Stephanie stuff looks more legit since they are still married now.
 
#32 · (Edited)
Life ain't fair. I think if the 6 of them could turn back time, they'd all handle the situation differently.

Don't get me wrong, cheating's cheating.

From my point of view, and I'm not saying he handled it correctly; but what Trips did was a pretty easy choice. It's sad, because looking at them all today it's China that's come out worse.

What Edge did to Matt was pretty low IMHO, especially if they were as close as we're led to believe. Matt was also much more open about it in public than what China initially was, so the casual fans were more clued up. In addition to that they turned it in to a storyline.

I don't hate or 5hit on any of them for who they sleep with, providing it's legal. Domestic abuse in marriage is worse. Some 'superstars' seem to get a free pass regarding that.

Either way it's not really our business.

Edit : Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes, because that way you're a mile away and you have his shoes.
 
#33 ·
The bigger shame is Chyna being unable to move on and clean up her life. We all sure found how superior of a talent Edge was over Matt Hardy when this played out on TV. Those massive reactions for Matt Hardy disappeared pretty quickly. There's nothing fair about wrestling. The better talent is going to get the bigger push. Matt Hardy airing his dirty actually allowed to Edge to become a bigger star and the biggest heel in the business. So it worked out for Edge ok.
 
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