So let me make it very clear that this video is about Triple H, the wrestler. I mean, his career these

days is so varied. You may be expecting something else, but that's not what it's about. If you haven't seen this series before, we essentially sit down with a professional wrestler, and we use the Brett Hart method with a few extras thrown in there to figure out were they a good sports entertainer or not. The way Brett Hart did it is he went with look, he went with promos, and he went in-ring wrestling ability

and he just gave human beings a mark out of 10.

And also, as we know, when it comes to ridiculous numbers, it's a little bit arbitrary, because somebody's six is going to be different for somebody else's six. But I do think it's interesting, especially when it comes to the game. Now listen, I'm going to tell you to go and read the Michael Ciddley article is on whatculture.com right now because I totally understand you may want the other take.

But ever since I was a small boy and started watching pro wrestling, Triple H was just one of my guys. And actually, interestingly, I wasn't massively into Degeneration X. It's after Triple H had left that group and become like, he man, walking around in person. I was like, well, that's a very interesting character. I'm massively intrigued to see what he is going to do. I've spoken about this before on videos. He is the man that inspired me to go to the gym and going to the gym is one of my favorite things to do. And it basically changed my life as over the top as that sounds. And these things do matter, man. I believe they're called role models. It helps us segue into our first category as well, which is look, presence and presentation. I don't care what you think about Chipper Rachel overall. You would really have to come up with a good argument to say that this guy didn't have the look and the physique and the presentation and all those other words of a pro wrestler. I mean, he looks like an absolute badass. And he was just flicking through channels and you wanted to see a guy and go, wow, I bet he could kick somebody's ass. I mean, it really is exhibit A. I mean, he was like a comic book character come to life and he passed a silhouette test too. Honestly, if you go back to the year 2000, I genuinely believe, and I would have to sit down and think about this properly, it may be the best body in all of wrestling history. At least that's how I saw it. Again, I was getting into lifting weights and going to the gym and doing all of that stuff. And I had, as weird as it sounds, Triple H's posts on my wall. That's but man, that's the inspiration. You can even argue this as well because you have the 2000 physique, you have the 2001 physique, and you have the 2002 physique after he did return to the WWE. And that one, he's an absolute mass monster. He is so damn large. I enjoy talking about this because they actually think you can get knee deep in it, but I'm just going to cap it off there because he had a damn good look. It's even more important for the attitude area because, course Vince McMahon was in charge and he loved stuff like this and given throughout that period, Triple H was going to be our main event heel. He had to have a certain Junice acquired to him which I massively regret saying and I genuinely think he was able to tick all those boxes. Of course this all ties into the entrance itself and the entrance themes and let's not forget to somehow by the end of his in-ring career, Triple H had three songs by Motorhead. Now, of course, there's the big deaf rebel conversation in the modern day. But when you can go out there and get actual licensed tunes, of course, it's just a little bit more badass. I mean, look at CM Punk with cult personality. There's a reason he has that. Thing is for me as well, and this is why I do gush about it.

Around the same time, I was also getting into metal music. I had just discovered Motorhead. So when I realized that Triple H was coming out to Lemmy and Friends, it totally blew my mind. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Some people, of course, will laugh that Triple H once wore a denim jacket over a leather jacket, or maybe it was vice versa.

But I think it must have had something to it because we do talk about it today. If you go to the gym, you know the deal with jumpers. Wear as many jumpers as you can because it's going to make you look bigger, especially during those winter months with your bulking. I really do think you've got to give them a 9 out of 10 on this scale or even up to a 9.5 out of 10. I mean, I'm sure you could find a way to pick some holes, but I certainly can't. You don't want all wrestlers to look the same, but when it comes to the muscular ones, all ones that walk down this path, whatever that means, Triple H has got it down. Right, promos. This one is going to split the house, but I guess that's what makes it more fat. Now let's start with the actual delivery of words, because I always thought Triple H was really good at this.

Like, you rarely saw him got knocked off by a crowd, he knew how to handle himself, and that's really because he was pretty damn composed. And yes, there would absolutely be a criticism in there that maybe sometimes he went on too long, but at the same time he was meant be the big, bad hill of the company. So if you

walked in and said, Simon, do you think maybe he did this on purpose to piss off the fans? I mean, there's a debate to be had there, but they actually think I'd start to believe you. As a WWE guy as well, he totally understood the importance of a sound bite and he would drop them in all the time. Let's not forget the WWE is obsessed with making video packages to build up matches.

So when all of a sudden,

you do have a bunch of these,

a lot of AAA matches before we got to the bell. Well, it just felt like the most important thing that ever happened in our lifetime. He also went John Siener before John Sina on the microphone, because if you were having a war of worse with Triple H, and he didn't think you were cutting the mustard. He had no problem going

off script and start ad-libbing and then it would be like, all right, new boy, let's see if you're single swim. That does bring up some issues because sometimes he would aim these barbs at wrestlers that weren't able to respond in kind because of the backstage hierarchy. That's nothing exclusive to wrestling. That's exclusive to life. But if, as did happen on one occasion, Triple H started saying these about Kofi Kingston,

he wasn't going to be able to go,

oh, you exclusive to life. But if, as did happen on one occasion, Triple H started saying

these about Kofi Kingston, he wasn't going to be able to go, oh, you listen to me, Paul, because he would have got in trouble. At the same time, though, when he did do it with the likes of CM Punk and CM Punk was that, man, I'll tangle with you, I don't care. Oh my gosh, it was absolutely brilliant. Go back to their feud in like 2013 or 2012 whenever it was.

It's just

like two people having a conversation and my gosh, do you believe they hate each other? Probably

because they actually did. And of course, Triple H had a formula that he would rely on and sometimes

he did overuse a phrase or two. And yes, if you want to get super critical, you'd never say he cut

an Austin 316 promo on Dusty Road's hard times.

The truth is, though, not many people ever have that one iconic promo that we all remember till the end of time, so mostly it comes down to being consistent.

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