I’ve always come across his return along with the rest of the year and always wanted to wonder how he went from a face to a heel in that short span of months. Never mind. I watched this entire video and now I remember coming across that heel turn.

They didn’t book him right as a babyface either.

Cried over Triple H??? SMH

@@reekgotti3209 That's my goat. Sure did.

How'd you feel about that return in 2007?

@@heelgill Same level of happiness when he returned, combined with relief since it was an injury he experienced before. So mentally, he knew what the journey would be like. He knew he could come back. And I was grateful it wasn't completely torn like the first one. I was hopeful he might become champion again since he hadn't had it in 2 ½ years. And after reading his book when he talks about his disappointing 02 face run being over before he really had a chance to show he could be one, the momentum in 07, felt like it was his time. Although in 2006, the crowd was pushing hard as hell for him to get a tweener run. Even if management was still fully behind the Cena train.

​@@heelgillthe '02 return was better because it was the first time he was ever gone, 07 was great, but 07 was just a very weird and dark year from January all the way to November

Triple H returning in 2007 was just a distraction from all the messiness that time, you can say Triple H being out from the times he was out back in 2001 and half of 2007 felt surreal in itself

@@KingFreddyG97 Weird and dark in what way?

Throwing around the word legendary way too casually there, homie.

​@@CheezusChrist1776😂😂😂

Same. That WWF Desire video with U2 on his return is so motivating!

The Reign of Terror is too overhated, it has far too many good moments in 02, 03, 04 & 05 to simply be called bad.

​@@mrmoviemanic1I agree with you 1000

Oh it’s true, it’s DAMN true 🏅

Yea that would've made perfect sense,but they turn austin babyface after the invasion angle

@@travienantley674 Kinda yes, kinda no. Creative would say "they turned Austin babyface after the Invasion angle." However, fans would say, "Austin was never heel. He was still getting cheers after WM and his alliance with HHH even before the Invasion." It was kinda embarrassing. Some smarks had signs mocking it at Insurrextion, Judgement Day and KOTR ppvs.

@Speedyreedy1218 I remember that lol,that night after wrestlemania 17 the crowd was so ready to cheer for triple h,I remember watching that and thinking how stone cold and triple h was going to form a alliance when a couple months before that they was in a heated fued

@@travienantley674 A lot of fans felt you thought. Their explanation in the promo on Smackdown made sense. But fans just didn't want to accept it. Fans find HHH naturally hateable and Austin naturally lovable, so making their heel/face positions switch is bad business long term.

People sleep on HHH v Kurt matches. I don't know why. Only bad matches he's had were against Khali.

They got to showcase it for the next few years thankfully.

@@mrmoviemanic1 Um. No they didn't. That was H v HBK, with their own history and rivalry. Without the nWo garbage which would've made no sense since HBK wasn't in it.

Awwe. #StephSquad

That make sense but I feel like WWE really wanted Austin vs Hogan at Wrestlemania X8 but they couldn't agree on who would go over, so instead he got relegated to facing Scott Hall due to him and The Rock feuding with NWO.

I always booed Rock and Austin. HHH is my guy. Face or heel.

The only time I've ever actually disliked HHH as a character is during the Authority era

@@presidentc4 Refreshing to hear!

No. He lost the title three weeks after mania to Hogan. He was holding nothing on top of the cell v Jericho.

I think it's better than almost any HIAC match post-2008. Except for Edge and Seth, New Day and Usos, and End of an Era.

@@mrmoviemanic1 I think all HIACs after 2005 are boring. It lost it's prestige after 2005. Almost lost in Armageddon 2000 with the 6 Man. But H worked his tail off 2002-2005 to restore it's storytelling ane fatality aura. Multi man HIACs, HIAC without color, and HIAC with no storied, nasty, serious bloodfeud makes no sense. They're just regular cage matches to me. It doesn't help when the "talent" of the last 12-15 years is boring.

False.

@@Speedyreedy1218 Truth hurts , 2000 he had 4 star match after 4 star match, after injury he was slow and too big and too boring

@@alanarmstrong6460 Truth doesn't hurt. He was only 12lbs heavier, still had his speed, hit all his moves, and was extremely popular through the spring and summer even after stagnant momentum from Hogan taking the title from him. That's why the HBK betrayal worked. Fans still loved HHH going into Vengeance and were looking forward for a DX reunion with the real originals. The crowd went silent when he pedigreed Shawn. That's the reaction he wanted. Extreme shock and disappointment leading to hate..

His body wasn't ready for a match til August though. I still wish we would've got it. Even HHH v Hall on a ppv, I wish we got. They never did it. H fought all his kliq bros on PPV except Hall. 😔 At least they had a semi main event at the Garden only the fans there saw in 96...

@@Speedyreedy1218 I don’t think 4-5 months would’ve made a difference on his body plus HBK was having ladder matches before his 02 return.

@@mattcaporuscio6956 They know their bodies better than us. And apparently it made a difference. If Nash doesn't tear his quad and he audibles and helps Show in the match, he doesn't even if know if his instincts are still there, much less his body.

That's what he said.

Hogan knows best

@@edge803 Hogan knows what he wants.

Hogan disagreed.

Weak for a cell. Shouldve been at wrestlemania. Only way to top the hulk vs rock match before them, looking back wouldve been to have a stipulation or spectacle like the cell especially at mania and wouldve been the 2nd in 3 years at mania but at same time HHH was limited probably in his return to be prorected although the cell was only a month or so after mania

@@HurrikaneBEA5T It wasn't weak for a cell. Most people weren't digging Jericho at the top. You had fickle fans wanting him to get there. Then when he was there, mock him. H was the only top guy having major matches with him (Last Man Standing, HIAC). Austin primarily worked him in tags. When Austin or Rock worked Jericho in singles, there was always interference or a weapon of some kind used. Even though they were big faces, they were protected. So that stunted Jericho's legitimacy as a top guy. Different story in 2008. They believed in him then. Usually you aren't taken seriously til you go heel.

I think he means around Summerslam when he was feuding with Angle….HHH was the…lesser heal in the rivalry.

I swear I always thought that Jericho and Stephanie alliance was forced,

Reign of Triumph.

Huh? Nah lol from 04 on his outfits were bad

@@MrAjking808 Yes they were. His 2004 sets got better.

H said the boys convinced management to take the belt off him for Hogan.

I hear you. Kurt/HHH rivalry goes back to 1999 actually. But for heat they wanted to say Jericho took H out because of their tag match. So him being the one H had to beat made sense too.

@@Speedyreedy1218 Oh I completely forgot about that match yeah I guess the feud should’ve made Stephanie into face and make the rivalry similar to Orton and HHH promo at WM25

@@nickdonalds3990 How could you have forgotten? It was the biggest thing/real thing of wrestling in 2001 outside of Vince buying wcw.

@@Speedyreedy1218 It happened 21 years ago dude

@@nickdonalds3990 22. But it was a big deal. That's like saying you don't remember the KOTR 96 promo with Austin because it was 27 years ago. You may not remember the tournament. But you remember his promo because it was start to a turning point in his career.

Well there really was nobody believable left. Stone Cold and Angle basically flip flopped the championship like 3 times during the late summer early fall and it'd be odd to have them dethrone Jericho when they held that same championship like 3 months earlier. Rock basically was Wolrd champion ( although that was the WCW World championship which technically was still a World championship within WWE) by the end of the previous year and would be booked in to face Hogan. Taker was in the middle of a heel turn. Maybe Kane but I don't know reception wise how a Jericho vs Kane WWF championship match at MANIA would go over. So in that way Triple H was the best and believable option outside of someone like Hurricane, Booker T, RVD, Eddie Guerrero( actually I don't think he was in the company and was off TV or released by Rumble 2002) pulling an upset victory at the Rumble and Mania

​@@JacksonLane02 I have to correct you(...) The rock was WCW Champion.

​@@JacksonLane02 I know man, I was just playing around.

Are you insane? He hadn't been champion in a year and a half and was never pinned when he lost the title King of the Ring 2000. He absolutely was the right person to take it from Jericho.

Because he actually had a run with the title then.

Even he didn’t had the title he was still entertaining especially going towards 2009 it was gold

That's not true. HHH wasn't even back yet! Austin ruined Kurt Angle's 9/11 babyface run a week after Kurt won. Kurt got off easy. Austin didn't "Kane" him and take it back 24 hours later. And Hunter didn't go back heel after WM. He went heel after Vengeance.

@@Speedyreedy1218 yeah they turned angle heel, because they knew they wanted HHH to come back as a baby when he returned in January the next year, and also vengeance is after mania so my comment is not wrong, my point is that they gave up on HHHs babyface run so quickly, so it wasn't even worth it

@@jacoborourke They didn't want HHH to come back as a face. They had no plan up until the day of his return and that was just for him to cut a promo and do a spot. They were playing it by the crowd. The crowd turned him baby instantly and they ran with it. Vengeance his well into the summer, not Early spring like WM.

@@Speedyreedy1218 bro is worlds biggest triple h fan

@@jacoborourke I'm not a bro. Nor am I the biggest. I'm one of them though.