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Triple H Turns in Amazing Showing On Raw

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By @nickmarsico

Triple H - WWE Universe Facebook

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Throughout the years, I have had a love-hate relationship with Triple H, and much of the internet wrestling community can surely identify with that. He grew to be a fantastic wrestler and has had some amazing matches, he’s been a part of some great angles and always performed up to the challenge and he has become an indelible part of WWE.

He has also been a tiresome bore, hogged the spotlight on television, beefed up to the point in which he became more injury prone and started wrestling in a way that was almost unrecognizable compared to his past work. He also allegedly flexed a ton of power backstage and held back wrestlers that deserved more than they were allowed to achieve. Allegedly.

And that feud with Scott Steiner. Purple Speedo. Yeah.

Stephanie McMahon has been unbelievable in her role as one of the most insanely hateable women who has ever stood in a wrestling ring. Her husband has been OK, but has paled in comparison to her impeccable work and has almost become more of a background character; a supporting actor if you will (shout out to Dusty Rhodes), within the umbrella of The Authority. Last week on Monday Night Raw, however, Triple H performed at his highest level in an acting capacity in a long time.

It felt like he believed every word he was saying. Instead of pulling the smarmy act, which has been more annoying than ire-worthy, he sounded heart-stoppingly sincere. I truly felt that Triple H meant every word he said when it came to the problems between Randy Orton and Seth Rollins. McMahon was very clear in her decision that Orton needed to be put out, but Triple H knew that he needed Orton and did everything he could to pull his team back together. His face-to-face “scorched earth” speech to Orton was nothing short of spectacular and it really came across as absolutely honest, heartfelt and just the slightest bit desperate. At the end of the night, with Orton left battered and bloodied (which was very refreshing to see), Triple H found himself with no other choice to acquiesce to the rest of stable’s demands.

“Finish it.”

He said those words in the perfectly spot-on antithesis of McMahon’s delivery from minutes earlier. She was assured and confident; she knew that Orton was damaged goods and could not be trusted. Triple H felt differently to the bitter end. Whether he begrudgingly told Rollins, Jamie Noble, Joey Mercury and Kane to put the bullet in Orton’s head because he truly thought that Orton was angry but loyal, or if he was just unwilling to accept that he was giving up a man who would be a tremendous asset in his quest to keep his power, doesn’t really matter. The performance was there, and it made the closing minutes of Raw very meaningful and memorable.

Kudos to The Game.

Nicholas A. Marsico is a pro wrestling writer for Rant Sports. Follow him on Twitter and Like him on Facebook!

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