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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Between 2002-2006 in [[WWE]], it was incredibly hard to sum up [[Triple H]]'s character beyond "World Champion", "[[Stephanie McMahon]]'s husband", and "sledgehammer aficionado".
* This was the main problem with [[WCW]]'s [[New World Order]] angle (in all its incarnations): the fact that this faction of bad guys was so elite that they ''never lost''. Even the nine-month buildup leading to the defeat of [[Big Bad]] [[Hulk Hogan|Hollywood Hogan]] by [[Dark Messiah]] [[
** Indeed. The original outcome was for Sting to be pinned by fast count thanks to Nick Patrick's interference, therefore creating a valid reason for the match to be restarted by [[Bret Hart]], who was one of the hottest commodities in wrestling at the time and was making his big debut in WCW at the time. It is rumored that [[Hulk Hogan]] bribed Patrick, a notoriously corrupt ref, to intentionally slow down his count so that the main reason for restarting the match and giving the victory to Sting would be null and void. This created a great backstage controversy that basically killed all of the momentum [[Bret Hart]] had in his entrance to WCW, which was supposed to be the last major blow against the then-WWF to kill WCW's chief rival for good. However, thanks to the bullshit pulled backstage by Hogan and his little clique, among other things, the WWF was able to rally itself going into 1998 and ultimately crush WCW at the end of the Monday Night Wars.
** The capper was that when Sting slapped on the Scorpion Deathlock, Hogan never tapped out. Supposedly, Hogan was yelling "I quit" but none of the cameras or mics picked this up. After almost two years of dominating WCW and nine months of building up Sting as the [[Badass]] savior of WCW, seeing the villainous leader of the nWo giving up in agony against Sting should have been a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for WCW but it instead signaled what was going to happen to the company later on.
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