Wrestling News & Rumours Thread ***NO CHAT***

Sorry on your loss @Necro

Health comes first and he has had a great career, thank you HHH / Paul

Triple H interview with Stephen A. Smith from earlier.

It's great to see Triple H is back feeling better and fair play to him for making the decision to retire, some people are just stubborn and cannot take their foot of the pedal when they also had health scares

I do feel sorry for what has happened to his NXT, I can only imagine in the back of his mind that he must be gutted but with his health scare, I don't think he's any condition to manage it any more and Vince only see's it as development now

He talked about this being a genetic issue in the men of his family going back 4 or 5 generations, that basically every generation dies of heart disease/heart failure, most of them around 52 (he's 52 himself).

He has a complicated legacy imo but he's contributed to a lot of my favourite moments. I hated Triple H when he was at his worst, hogging the limelight in the way that he did from late 2002 on, and I would say he definitely abused his influence in several feuds. I stopped watching for about a 2 year period around '08 when I found his Super Hunter dominance too much to bear. On the other hand, he's been involved in one of my favourite ever matches (against HBK at Summerslam '02), and in maybe my favourite feud ever (with The Rock in 2000). I think there's a strong case to be made that he is the greatest heel of this century, just for that 2000-02 period alone when I would say he was at his peak. I saw him live in I think 2005 and went into the show not liking him, and yet when he made his entrance I got caught up in it I must admit. He definitely had that star power aura about him. I hope he has a healthy and happy retirement.

Do we actually know that he did? And particularly "the amount of steroids he did" as you say? He maintains the only time he's taken them is when medically prescribed to heal his quad in 2001.

I'm not sure that someone simply being jacked is exactly proof...

Steiner was on roids? I never would've guessed...

Who are the biggest roid monkeys around today? Pac, Jinder, Brian Cage?

Drew looks ridiculous but he has looked like that for so long now that I'd almost believe he's clean. Same with Lashley.

Well there was the story about Scott Steiner being asked to take a drug test and he said that he’d take it if HHH did and if I remember correctly, it wasn’t pushed after that.

edit: I should’ve looked at a few posts above this one.

Isn’t that Steiner thing exactly the same time that HHH is totally open about taking medically prescribed steroids to help heal his quad though? HHH injured it in 2001, Steiner’s thing was right after in 2002.

I dunno, he may well have taken them loads, I’ve no idea. But it just doesn’t sit well that some posters make that leap, and then definitively lambast his choices in light of his heart issues. It just feels one deviation beyond what’s fair, as total outsiders of the situation here making assumptions, to be effectively saying it’s all his own fault. We just don’t know enough about the situation to be that damning imo.