Triple H may be retired, but throughout the course of his in-ring career he picked up a number of victories against a wide variety of opponents. Back in March of 2023, Triple H defeated Maven in a squash match on Raw ahead of his big title match with Booker T at WrestleMania 19.
Maven reflected on the match in a recent video on his YouTube channel and he explained that Triple H pulled him aside and apologized ahead of time while explaining that he would normally want his opponent to get some offense in.
“Hunter would pull me aside and explain to me, and apologize in advance. He would say, ‘Listen, Maven, normally, I don’t like doing squash matches.’ By ‘squash matches,’ that’s just a term in our business for, ‘I’m going to get every ounce of the offense, and you’re gonna get nothing in.’ The way you build a character, and the way you help yourself is by building your opponent up. If I go out and just squash someone, what have I done? Absolutely nothing.”
“So Hunter explained to me earlier in the day, ‘I don’t like doing squash matches. I’m sorry I’m doing this squash match. Normally, I want you to get some offense in.'”
“On this night, leading to WrestleMania in a few weeks, Hunter was just trying to expand on his heel persona. He had a big match coming up with Booker, and he wanted as many people as possible to hate him, to want to see Booker get the better of him, and what better way to do that than to beat the Tough Enough kid?”
H/T Fightful
