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#10,101 ·
WWE Championship - Last Man Standing
Randy Orton (c) vs. Triple H - *** 3/4
June 22

- HELL YES, Orton vs. Trips last man standing was great. Brilliant story around Hunter's knee and some brutal legwork from Randy. Loved how HHH always had something in the environment to help him get to his feet, whether it was the announce table or the entrance ramp. The ladder spot where the electrical guy gets drilled in the face is fucking AWESOME. Finish was really well done on Trips' part. Great selling for sure. This is a match I could see getting better with every watch. OH and I almost forgot, this is shown in its entirety since it was on that RAW where Trump took over and had no commercials.
I need to watch this again. Remember it being really good and quite comfortably their second best match together after the LMS at No Mercy '07 but I haven't seen it since it happened.
 
#10,104 ·
3/14, 5/2, & 11/18.

It probably was Gold Rush since that followed Backlash. Benoit got ko'ed with a brick by Edge so H was probably targeting it. Been a long time since I've see it.
14/3 is the best of the bunch IMO. Benoit giving Trips 10 Germans = EPIC~!

Gold Rush would have been better if they had got 5 more minutes to go with it but it was still great and Benoit making HHH tap out = :mark:

2008 is probably my least favorite year in wrestling history. Mainly because I thought both Trips and Punk weren't up to standards the entire year. The way they fucked Punk out of the belt which essentially led to Orton's big heel character which basically led to HHH-Orton really pissed me off.

Punk being fucked over in vain of one of the worst Wrestlemania main events coming from my all-time favorite wrestler in history ?

Not Cool.
Like Carlito would say: That... that's cool!

And it's automatically a reason to make 2008 > 2012. Just based on the stuff that took place there, 08 seems to be the last good year for WWE to me.
 
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Last night I had to take the DVD out and cry in the corner a little bit once I made it to Fall Brawl 1998 and the "War Games" match. I use that term VERY FUCKING LOOSELY. Going to make a second attempt to blow through this DVD now, but I can't complain because even though the DVD is horrible, it's atleast a bunch of coherent material.

My number one pet peeve on WWE DVDs ; incoherent matches that have no overall theme or cause between all of them ala "The Top 50 Finishers DVD" which took me 8 different sittings to get through even though the material wasn't bad....
 
#10,106 ·
Oh, forgot mention the obvious Triple H TV match from 2000 - vs Chris Jericho when Jericho "won" the WWF Championship. Yeah. That's a moment worth praising. Nothing to do with Triple H though. Only b/c I'm so big on Jericho.

THAT POP when he wins. :mark:
You see this I have to disagree with tbh. This moment was everything to do with Triple H. Jericho could have been anybody, Taka, Rikishi, Kane, whoever. The real reason those fans popped like crazy was because somebody had finally beat HHH for the title. Jericho was over big time and it got a great response because it was him but he really could have been anybody who was over at that time and those fans would have lost their shit regardless. I'm talking in general terms here. Of course if you mark for Jericho then it was everything to do with him but generally speaking, that pop and reaction had way more to do with people hating HHH than loving Jericho/whoever else it could have been who got that spot.
 
#10,107 ·
Starbuck is correct. Just look at HHH vs Taka. HHH made him look like a million bucks and the crowd was into the idea that someone could finally beat HHH. Sure, Jericho was over but it was the idea that someone had defeated a SUPER over heel champ right in front of their eyes on live TV.
 
#10,108 ·
Despite the fact I think HHH has been mediocre the majority of his career, he was THE MAN in 2000. Nobody could have made Taka look like THAT in their match. The pop wouldn't have been THAT big if Jericho had "won" the title from Kurt Angle or something. People watched the shows and bought the PPV's in part to see HHH get BEAT. Not me, I loved the guy in 2000 :).
 
#10,109 ·
Speaking of AWESOME Triple H performances, Y'all should check out Trips vs Big Show @ NYR 2006. Easily the MOTN and an awesome performance by both as we get a match that's chalked full of psychology. As far as targeting a particular body part goes, this is Hunter at his finest. On last watch I gave it a **** and it's for sure a top 5 Show singles (probably second, I have it slightly above the Sheamus match).

They had a match after that on Raw that was almost as good too. Triple H from 04-06 really warms my heart with great memories... AHHHHHHHHHHH :hhh

He got some short motherfuckin' hair now so methinks he comes back as the evil authority figure from here on out. Would be awesome as we get an authority figure who can actually get in there and bury some motherfuckers.

Because if we need anything more in Wrestling than HHH's burials , I don't wanna watch wrestling.
 
#10,111 ·
I need to watch this again. Remember it being really good and quite comfortably their second best match together after the LMS at No Mercy '07 but I haven't seen it since it happened.
It's more story driven than most LMS matches I've seen. It doesn't have any big spots or blade jobs of course but it's miles better than basically any other singles matches they had together in 2009... probably 2008 too.

Side note, went in to a local used DVD store. Found Survivor Series '04 for only $7 so I decided to pick it up... until the guy told me he couldn't find the disc. Not cool. :favre3
 
#10,114 ·
HHH was the man in 2000. He was an incredible culmination of an incredible character and a fantastic worker. The taka match is so freaking good. I found myself rooting for taka because HHH is such an easily hated character. He's such an incredible prickish heel. His character ups any babyface performance against him.

His best prick heel performance as a pure character is his match against Eugene easily.
 
#10,115 ·
vs Shawn @ Summerslam would be my pick for sure. The crowd HATED how he was targeting the back just to be a prick and try to cripple Shawn.

Darkhorse pick would be vs Eugene @ Summerslam 2004. Such a fucking amazing performance by Trips , even if I wouldn't even put it in his top 70 matches ever to be honest. But as far as pure heelishness goes, this pretty much tops it out. Faking injury to outsmart a retard ? C'mon man, that's fucking low.

The Flair series as well. When he picks up the mic in the LMS and screams "Flair you old bastard ! Staaayyyyy Dooowww.... AHHHHH" and then gets his balls grabbed by Flair only to nail him with the microphone afterwards, what a despicable bastard.
 
#10,117 ·
For heel performances, HHH is just so good at it. He always gets fans to root for the babyface even if it's against Maven who comes out to silence every week. I'm almost at TT05 but wont watch it now because I want it saved for when it's time for the PPV. I have to go with Eugene by default.

Randy Orton vs Rey Mysterio (Smackdown 01-09-2005)

Wow, these two just do it every single time. Almost as much chemistry as Orton has with Benoit. Orton is just so perfect as the dickhead heel. His facial expressions, his trash talking and use of heelish tactics are in great display in here. Another well paced match with Orton dominating with heelish offense. I loved some of the stuff he did such as removing his kneepad for the Jumping Knee Drop on Rey's chest or when he slaps Rey across the head with some funny one-liners. And his smirk when doing that Legend Killer pose.... ha, he's just a natural born heel (even though I root for him every time 8*D). Rey working as the underdog never fails and he builds up momentum much to the crowd's delight towards the end and starts to look like he has this on lock until Bob Orton holds onto his leg when he's about to West Coast Pop, causing a distraction which Orton utilizes to give Rey a BRUTAL lowblow followed by the first ever Super RKO from the top rope! Great match with a great ending. ***3/4
 
#10,118 ·
I the only one that thinks the Flair LMS is overrated? I wouldn't put it anywhere near their cage match.

While I don't like the SS 02 match with HBK, HHH's heel shit is good. Same with the Eugene match, and I'm not the biggest fan of that either.

Eddie at GAB 05 puts everything HHH did to fucking SHAME though :).
 
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