The hhh master plan

[Guest]

The HHH Master Plan

 

The following theory is based on my own opinions/conclusions which seem logical in my eyes.  But they do have some facts to substantiate them.  If you want to argue facts here are mine.  But please differentiate between whether you disagree with my facts or my opinions or both.

 

1.) Vince McMahon is the most powerful figure in the WWF. (Overall control of the Company)

2.) Stephanie McMahon is his daughter.

3.) HHH was married to her in the storylines until recently.

4.) HHH and Steph had a lot of camera time together.

5.) HHH and Steph prepared for that and spent even more time together.

6.) HHH and Steph are an item according to Chyna.  No one in the WWF has ever denied this fact.

7.) Stephanie McMahon is the WWF’s head writer, and creates many storylines

8.) Dating Steph gives HHH unheard of political clout in the WWF

9.) HHH states that he lives and breathes wrestling and would do anything to be the best ever.

 

 

The rest of this column is simply my opinion.

 

HHH is the smartest man in wrestling.  Just ask Scott Keith, or HHH himself for that matter.  But what a lot of you never realized is just how truly brilliant this jerk is.  For HHH had a master plan.  What was it?  Here goes.

Sometime around the fall of 1999, HHH realized that his world title reign (then a few months old) wasn’t quite working out.  The fall season is traditionally somewhat of a low time for the WWF and the fact that the WWF picked that time to give HHH the ball speaks volumes of their faith in him.  But through a combination of his marriage to Stephanie McMahon and busting his ass in two PPV matches with the retiring Mick Foley, HHH became the hottest heel in the WWF in the winter of 2000.  And logically enough he was booked to lose the title to the hottest face in the WWF at the time, the Rock, at WM 16.  But HHH had other ideas.  

When asked why HHH retained the title in the lame Fatal 4-way match at WM, people answer that a Stone Cold run-in was not feasible due to Austin’s out of shape condition while recovering from surgery.  Instead HHH retained, and the Wrestlemania finish was rescheduled for Backlash.  HHH dropped the title, only to regain it 3 weeks later by a freaking DQ at Judgment Day in the Ironman match.  When he dropped the title, he did not get pinned, the Rock pinned Vince McMahon for the gold.  And then throughout the summer of 2000 was the Rock the focus of the company?  No it was the HHH-Steph-Angle love triangle from hell that never went anywhere.  But things were looking up, Steve Austin was coming back.

HHH has always schemed to be the top face in the WWF.  Bottom line he doesn’t have the charisma to pull that off, his lame babyface run today proves that.  So does he accept this and resign himself to being the top heel in the WWF (a damn fine honor)?  No he decides to ruin every other top babyface.  And thus begins the master plan.  HHH planned the Austin heel turn at WM 17, deliberately involved himself in the angle to make Austin look like his lackey, then after screwing with Austin’s heat, planned to beat him at WM 18.  But first he had to ruin every other top face to look like his inferior.  How did he do it?  Let’s take a look at the list.

 

Undertaker – okay HHH didn’t have to do anything there.

 

Rikishi – Ditto.

 

Kurt Angle – never was planned to be a face until after HHH’s quad injury, but was made the Game’s whipping boy before and after his return.

 

Chris Jericho – Where do we start?  How many jobs has HHH done for Y2J?  My point exactly.

 

Chris Benoit – injured at KOTR 2001, no need for HHH to do anything.

 

Kane – Well jobbing to Albert didn’t help Kane much, but whether or not HHH planned this is anyone’s guess.

 

The Rock – Okay where do we start.  Despite historical revisionism 101 people wanted an AUSTIN heel turn prior to WM 17 and face Rocky to win the belt.  Watch the tapes of Armageddon 2000 and Royal Rumble 2001 when Austin and Rock face off, and you hear the crowd chanting “Rocky” not Austin.  But Rocky was made to look like an idiot prior to WM, losing every single confrontation with Austin except one on Smackdown.  Then Rock went away for the summer and he was out of HHH’s hair.

 

 

So what went wrong?  Well HHH got hurt in May, but that didn’t end his scheme.  It was reported throughout the web that HHH was opposed to Austin turning face after Survivor Series 2001.  Why?  Because it would screw up his plan to win it from heel Austin at WM.  Now HHH hasn’t soundly defeated every single WWF star in really key matches (although note the WWF’s constant referencing to No Way Out 2001 despite its having little historical value and being an overrated match, again that is an opinion)

But HHH got his WM win and now holds the title despite being the #5 face.  And Summerslam will be HHH-Nash.  You heard it here first.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

You can't start a conspiracy thread without mentioning that RVD was in a program for the undisputed title with Jericho until January 7th (HHH's return) where he curtain jerked against Test.

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Also, HHH jobbed clean to Undertaker last year, so expect him to call in that favour very soon.

[Guest Loss4Words]

Other things people forget:

 

* If HHH and Stephanie ever marry, he'll be a PART OWNER of the WWF!

 

* Austin is off TV.

 

* X-Pac is in the main event scene.

 

* Kevin Nash and the Rock have heat.

 

* HHH, after pushing for Jericho to win the titles, went on Off the Record and buried him.

 

* Hulk Hogan has taken political savvy to an entire new level in the way that he has skated around the Rock to become the WWF's top face by "putting Rock over" (you tell me who benefitted most from that match) while simultaneously hindering his heat and leaching off of what's left of the Rock's heat at the same time! I actually respect his brilliance, believe it or not.

 

* Chris Jericho has contract negotiations coming up this summer and is being painted backstage as a failure as WWF champ. Nowhere to go but down unfortunately.

 

* Kurt Angle is in the midcard despite being the most over heel in the company.

 

To summarize:

 

HHH, Hall, Nash, X-Pac and Hogan are the most stable main eventers the WWF has right now. HHH is scheduled to team with Hogan on house shows in the next few weeks and can safely leech off his heat. Steve Austin, the Rock, Kurt Angle and Chris Jericho, the WWF's "big four" just last November, are now cannon fodder for Hogan and the Clique.

 

You don't think HHH thought about all of this when he was persuading Vince that bringing in the NWO would be a good thing?

 

By fall, who's to say Austin and Jericho won't be gone while the Rock is off making a movie and HHH is feuding with the Outsiders while Benoit and Jericho job to each other in the midcard and RVD gets buried for refusing to sign a 5-year deal? It sure looks like it.

 

If next year's Mania main event is Hogan v HHH, don't say I didn't warn ya ...

[Guest godthedog]

very interesting & intricate theory, but i don't think trips has ever brilliantly schemed to be the company's top face.  his idol is ric flair (probably the greatest heel ever).  i believe he's said more than once that he prefers soaking up the boos to the cheers.  if he's wanted to be the top face all this time, i don't see why he'd work so hard to be such a great heel.

also, and maybe this is just me, but if you watch his babyface interviews...it's not just that they're boring, it's that he isn't entirely comfortable in that kind of role.  he's got a very "how exactly do i work this?" attitude to it.  as a top heel, he didn't have that problem.  he oozed "evil badass", & retained his heat without any problem.

 

i think trips knows inside he makes a better heel, & i think deep down he's wishing he was having a run with the title right now as a heel.

[Guest Dangerous A]

" HHH, after pushing for Jericho to win the titles, went on Off the Record and buried him."

 

Sorry, I agree with everything you said except this. I have read a trascript of this interview and while he did say that he felt Jericho to be a peg down the ladder, he also said that Jericho is missing that little something THAT HE TOO WAS MISSING!!!! He almost buried himself there. If people wouldnt be so selective and listen to the whole story, Hunter says that his first run was unspectacular and that he had to find what was wrong. I believe he should do this now, because again, something is wrong. But the man was making a comparison to himself and where he believed Jericho is now.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Who cares what he said....

 

Jericho was buried when he was beaten by a heatless HHH at Mania anyway.

 

And could he have looked like a bigger bitch on Raw?

 

I thikn Jericho might drop right past the upper midcard and freefall down to Jakked/Metal

[Guest Brian]

"Sometime around the fall of 1999, HHH realized that his world title reign (then a few months old) wasn’t quite working out.  The fall season is traditionally somewhat of a low time for the WWF and the fact that the WWF picked that time to give HHH the ball speaks volumes of their faith in him."

 

Just like it spoke volumes of their faith in the Rock a year prior, or Angle a year after.

 

"And logically enough he was booked to lose the title to the hottest face in the WWF at the time, the Rock, at WM 16.  But HHH had other ideas."

 

HHH? I don't remember that.

 

"When asked why HHH retained the title in the lame Fatal 4-way match at WM, people answer that a Stone Cold run-in was not feasible due to Austin’s out of shape condition while recovering from surgery."

 

Actually, the reason was they thought WrestleMania would garner a good buyrate regardless, wanted to give Mick Foley a good send-off, and I don't even remember ever reading Stone Cold was in the plans, as it didn't make sense at all.

 

"HHH has always schemed to be the top face in the WWF."

 

Schemed? HHH hgas always been in line for a run as a face. If anything after 2000, Triple H deserved a face run to make up for what he could have made in merchandising, because he had served as a top player and deserved a share of the pay-off. Schemed is so harsh; everyone who serves their time as a top heel wants that face run, that extra dollar, at some point.

 

"Bottom line he doesn’t have the charisma to pull that off, his lame babyface run today proves that."

 

They handled his psuh horribly, but he has some of that charisma. He has a couple of things that don't really go his way: his character isn't particulary strong or deep, he's almost always come out on top (not really his fault), and he doesn't generally seem to have the great face mic skills or a strong catchphrase that gets the crowd involved.

 

"So does he accept this and resign himself to being the top heel in the WWF (a damn fine honor)?"

 

I think he should, but he should get his run.  

 

"HHH planned the Austin heel turn at WM 17,"

 

First time I've ever heard that.

 

"..deliberately involved himself in the angle to make Austin look like his lackey,"

 

I could have sworn Triple H was looking to become a face, and after working with Austin, held a secondary title.

 

"Chris Jericho – Where do we start?  How many jobs has HHH done for Y2J?  My point exactly."

 

Oh yeah, everyone should trade jobs.

 

"The Rock – Okay where do we start.  Despite historical revisionism 101 people wanted an AUSTIN heel turn prior to WM 17 and face Rocky to win the belt.  Watch the tapes of Armageddon 2000 and Royal Rumble 2001 when Austin and Rock face off, and you hear the crowd chanting “Rocky” not Austin.  But Rocky was made to look like an idiot prior to WM, losing every single confrontation with Austin except one on Smackdown.  Then Rock went away for the summer and he was out of HHH’s hair."

 

So that's all HHH's fault. I agree they screwed up some of the build-up to Rock/Austin at WM17, but again I don't see where HHH fits in. Austin was made to look stronger, the point being that Austin went into the match underestimating the Rock. And Rock gave Austin a run, one where he had to resort to every trick in his memory, to the point where he needed to call on his most hated enemy to defeat his top rival. I could go out on so many levels about how great that match was, at least from a storied perspective. But after Austin turned and Rock left, HHH gave up lots of money in a response to help Austin's turn and perhaps what hje thought was helping out the company for a later face run.

 

"Because it would screw up his plan to win it from heel Austin at WM."

 

The main reason HHH opposed the match was because the odds were to stacked on the face side that he was afraid he wouldn't be able to return as a face. At one point they were asking him to return as a heel.

 

"If HHH and Stephanie ever marry, he'll be a PART OWNER of the WWF!"

 

Does anyone have any proof that Steph actualyl has  more than a minority share in the company? Or Shane for that matter? Anyways, all the better as Triple H will probably become more self conscience with what is happening backstage compared to hwta is happening with the ratings, buyrates, ticket sales, etc.

 

"Kevin Nash and the Rock have heat."

 

Rock said a comment that wasn't cleared, something he porbably shouldn't have done whether anyone thinks it was right or wrong.