 What's good y'all should wear a raw spacket again with another video So we're gonna be checking out how bad was triple H rain of terror from 2002 through 2005 now I think a lot of us can agree that when triple H Was head of evolution around that period on raw I'm be honest with you It just seemed like the championship the world heavyweight championship was not leaving triple H waste At least not for a while like you would think people would have a lengthy title reign When they when it came to facing triple H. Nope, that wasn't the case prime example Goldberg there's no reason why Goldberg should have only had this championship built for like maybe one month That's all he had it for and then after that he lost it right back to triple H again And was never able to regain it It's just one of those things where triple H had a lot of power back then definitely use a lot of politicking and He pretty much had the world heavyweight championship Hostage that that's literally what it was it wasn't until it was Batista's moment that they kind of let go of the world Heavyweight championship kind of took it away from him But outside of that he had that championship on lock So we're gonna check this out. This should be a good video man. Super kick studios if you haven't subscribed to him I don't even know I haven't subscribed to him Subscribe to him right now and do make some very informative content when it comes to wrestling and anything wrestling related So I already subscribed to him hit the post notification for his channel so y'all go ahead and do that I will link the original video down in the description below and Let's get right into this one should be a good one wrestling and more specifically the WWE One of the most dry and downright damaging periods is known as the reign of terror a time frame between 2002 and 2005 where Monday night raw was basically the Triple H show He'd be later throughout the show in multiple segments oftentimes would start off raw with a promo that didn't really add any Value to ongoing storylines and was just filler now The worst part was that he would defeat opponents when the other person should have came out on top The reign of terror was one which Triple H had a stranglehold on the world heavyweight championship And it's seen as a period where people just switched off from watching raw, but was it really that bad? Well lucky for you I strapped my nipples to the horse like Dolph Ziggler in Silent Library and I tortured myself by watching every single match Every single segment and the entire reign of terror Do not do this unless you want to torture yourself. You have this video, you know as a kid I was watching that is torturous. You watched every triple H promo. You know how you be drawing out his words You watched all that Jesus man, and no disrespect to Triple H, man. He's he is he's done amazing work in NXT He is really revitalized a lot of people's careers and you know He's really put some some more talent on the screen like in the spotlight Unfortunately Vince just swept that all under rug triple H has done some amazing work off-camera, but at this time in period 2002-2005 Yeah, man. He he had the Championship scene on lock in this and I thought that Triple H was just really good That's why he always won and now that I'm a little bit older I understand the other side of wrestling and well Let's just say that I never want to hear Motorhead ever again We begin this story in the year 2002 where Triple H returned from a quad injury by summer of that year He became the number one contender for the undisputed WWE title held by Brock Lesnar Only issue is that Brock Lesnar is signed a deal to become exclusive to Smackdown So raw was left without a world title and raw GM Eric Bischoff just want y'all screw it I'm just gonna hand it over to the number one contender no tournament no big match nothing and so Triple H was awarded the world heavyweight title and the reign of terror had begun on that night Rick flair came out yelling at triple H about how he didn't earn it and triple H laid out Rick flair So we were all thinking that maybe we were gonna get a program between these two But boy were we ever wrong on the first episode with triple H as world champion He was in four different segments throughout the show and this becomes a theme throughout this video is the overuse of triple H I'm pretty sure if you looked at a raw creative meeting between 2002 and 2004 It would literally just say triple H on the script Challenger was RV deep who was a fan favorite. He was young exciting high-flying was a fan favorite on rock RVD Was that guy RVD was what Ray Mysterio was on Smackdown? Like Smackdown the hardest Smackdown was Ray Mysterio. We cannot deny that well at one point It was Eddie de Guerrero and then when he passed it became more Ray Mysterio But the heart of raw was definitely RVD that Can't refute that he was the heart of raw in my bed He had everything he won a fatal four-way match involving Jeff Hardy big show and Chris Jericho to face triple H at unforgiven that match came and a lot of people were hoping RVD would win But that didn't happen. Yeah, just as it looked like Rick Flair was about to screw over triple H after being humiliated by him Rick Flair aligned with the world heavyweight champion This is an alliance that we'd see for the next few years Rick Flair was out here telling people that triple H was the greatest of all time that this man possessed Everything needed in a world champion. He was saying that triple H was the new Rick Flair After he was done with RVD next up for triple H was Kane and brace yourself Cuz you guys knew this was coming one of the worst and downright stupid angles in wrestling history The Katie Vic storyline triple H came out telling us that ten years ago Kane killed someone named Katie Vic that Kane was a murderer But who was Katie Kane told us that Katie was just a friend and triple H went no She's not and he asked Kane. Did you do it to her while she was alive or when she was dead? What was he talking about? Well, this is a sick sick fucking Program they had up like bro. Why are we doing this? Oh, they would go fuck Katie and Kane had gotten drunk at a party and what happened after was a complete accident Triple H was saying that this wasn't an accident and that Kane was evil and he was demonic and at no mercy He would ruin Kane's life and take away his intercontinental championship in a winner-take-all match And at that event triple H retained his world title But this feud wasn't over yet the next night on raw triple H said that he had video evidence of Kane having Intercourse with Katie Vic so later in the night triple H shows a video tape of him But naked in a thong wearing a Kane mask having sexual intercourse with a doll at a funeral home He gets in the casket and he reenacts what Kane apparently did to Katie and at the end of it He's like wow. I really did fuck your brains out, bro Whose idea was it to run this making love to a dead person? You know a female dead person when you're a guy and you're in this thong type thing It was like that is like high comedy if there ever is Next week triple H came out and he was talking to mannequin Katie Vic and she was telling him that Kane had a small D hurricane was out here showing footage of triple H having a sledgehammer Removed from his ass. It was just wild at the end of that night's raw It was a casket match between triple H and Kane and out of the casket came a returning Sean Michaels to Continuous feud with triple H for those that don't know triple H and Sean Michaels were having a blood feud heading into summer time 2002 Shawn Michaels returned from a back injury and it was at this point in Two, that's one of the greater things that happened between this time period with triple H Hpk triple H that blood feud That's that's one of the things that made this his little reign of terror Tolerable in my opinion because that feels so good so good 2002 where WWE began the build for the first ever elimination chamber It would be the world champion triple H defending his title against Kane Christian go Booker T RV Easily one of the best help elimination chambers. The first one was so goddamn D and Shawn Michael John Michaels took the win and the redemption story for him was complete. Yeah, who did he pin? It was triple H What a noble man putting over his best friend Shawn Michaels held the title for about a month defending it against RVD before facing triple H at Armageddon 2002 this match was a three stages of hell match and at the end of the night It was triple H who would come out on top It was around this time where the recruitment process began for triple H and Rick flair for the group that would eventually be known as Evolution Rick flair was scouting Batista and telling him that he possessed Everything to be the best in the business for triple H He was continuing his crusade against former WCW guys The next one for him was big pop-up pump Scott Steiner These guys were out here doing pose downs push-up contest arm wrestling matches Just trying to one up each other and prove who the better man truly was This was when there was a bidding war going on for Scott Steiner and how raw attracted him to their brand was they promised him a World title match against triple H. He got this match at Royal Rumble 2003 and when I say this match is garbage I mean it this match is garbage They had the monster that was Scott Steiner and they put him in a match with triple H Well, he was injured triple H retained and a small time later on the January 20th 2003 episode of raw We were introduced to evolution triple H's version of the four horsemen Yeah, you had Rick flair the legend of the past triple H the star of today and Randy Orton and Batista the future of the WWE a group destined for success for triple H He was destined to meet Scott Steiner again at no way out where triple H took the win once again Now it was WrestleMania season and we had yet another infamous angle. You see Gonna bring up some racial tension You gotta give the championship to Booker, bro. It only made sense for Booker to win that match One of the best superstars to come out of the invasion angle Yep, and he won a battle royal to face triple H at WrestleMania for the World Heavyweight title The whole story was about Booker T fighting from the bottom and earning his way to the top a guy who was in jail But he would put the past behind him and go from rags to riches But what ended up happening instead was this storyline took a downright racist turn Yeah, triple H was telling Booker T that someone like you doesn't belong here He was insinuating that a person of color like Booker T Wasn't someone who belonged at the top of WWE. He was only here to entertain the masses You had triple H and Ric Flair telling Booker T to be their slave and that he was only here to crack jokes and make them laugh So we were heading into WrestleMania 19 and the guy had just been humiliated But we'd gotten to know him a lot so logic would have suggested that Booker T Yes would have overcame the villain triple H and won the title but Booker T Lost after triple H hit a pedigree and legitimately it felt like he took about four hours to pin him This is a controversial one and one which almost everyone unanimously says that yes Booker should have won this. They basically built this up as Booker You're not deserving of being here and they played the race card only for him to go on and lose Did Booker T recover after this? Yeah, he did But the problem with a lot of this reign is that guys who should have won at certain points Didn't and I'm sure you guys are aware that there's times in pro wrestling What if you don't win when you're supposed to you never recover backs? This is I don't know how many times this has happened If you you gotta strike why the iron is hot that is a saying for a reason if Booker T Would have won that match that would have made him It would have made him a star. He would have beat the top guy on Raw If you're gonna give the belt back to triple H at some point you can but it would have made him a star a bigger star Now granted when things went he went over the smackdown He had the King Booker situation and it worked for him But imagine if it would have happened when it was supposed to happen when they should have booked it It would have been a great moment would have been a great WrestleMania moment Speaking of recovery, we had Kevin Nash recover from his quad injury and he was back in the WWE Only to find out that his two best friends were caught in a heated feud So he had to choose either he would side with triple H or Shawn Michaels and triple A's Decided that he was sick of the crap and he made the decision for Nash by hitting him with a low blow This led to a six-man tag team match at backlash and at the end of it It was Kevin Nash getting pinned by triple H and from here Kevin Nash was on a mission to kill triple H They were brawling on the streets triple H with stealing trucks and Someone at the end of this would have their judgment day at that event triple H retained his title by TQ and a rematch Followed at bad blood 2003 this time the thing was that not a single ref on raw wanted to officiate this match Because they thought it was dangerous being in the ring with triple H Sledge ever Blague so Mick Foley was named guest ref and triple H retained the world title All right, nothing too controversial going on here You know, he's not banging dolls or being racist But something big was coming one of the biggest moments in raw history But before we get there Randy Orton made his return to the WWE after an injury and three-fourths of evolution was back together With Batista still injured with Batista injured triple H decided to try to recruit Kane to join evolution But Kane went nah, I'm not doing that He had a site set on the World Heavyweight title and we got a mask versus title match if Kane won He'd be world champion if Kane lost He'd be forced to unmask and it was the latter which ended up happening Kane was forced to unmask and showed his face to the entire world and Kane Went off after this. He was burning JR hitting you went definitely rogue I did enjoy the second Nicky Kane was trying to murder people when he took his mask off It was a cool little moment. I ain't gonna lie to you Linda with tombstones and just creating hell on earth That was twice in a matter of year where WWE did something weird with Kane Yeah, two times where probably he should have won the world title But he didn't and this comes back to the damage. I was talking about earlier Sometimes the obvious decision is the best one. You guys know that grim reaper knocking on the door meme Well, that was basically triple H in this time frame killing everyone from WCW But that door would open again and this time it was Goldberg's turn Goldberg had debuted after WrestleMania and he was tearing through everyone and himself and triple H Were on a collision course for SummerSlam 0 3 in a singles match But triple H suffered a groin injury and instead of the match being one-on-one WWE decided that they wanted triple H to wrestle so they changed it to an elimination chamber match So the triple H would have to do minimal movements This is where triple H was wearing the biker shorts and obviously now that he was injured It would be a perfect time to drop the title. Yeah come SummerSlam 2003 It's Goldberg and triple H as the last two and somehow some way after a sledgehammer shot Triple H retained the world title. Yeah, you guys see how repetitive these match finishes are Interference DQ pedigree Extremely long interval between pedigree and cover. It was a rinse and repeat cycle and he should have won it then He should Goldberg should have won it then simple as that You know winning it but he didn't win it when he was supposed to and even then he only had if like one month A huge criticism of this time frame was the lackluster matches after Goldberg lost at SummerSlam The two men met again at unforgiven this time Goldberg took the win which Kind of made no sense. Like you could have just had him win at SummerSlam. Thank you But there it was Goldberg was world champion and now a bouncy was placed on his head See triple H was injured so WWE decided that we won't have him compete instead We'll run a storyline where triple H puts a $100,000 bounty on Goldberg's head So you had dudes trying to run down Goldberg with cars But the person who claimed the bounty would be a returning Batista and Evolution was now complete after suffering a loss to Goldberg at Survivor Series 03 Evolution ended Armageddon with all the raw gold Batista and Flair were the tag champions Randy Orton was the IC champion and Triple H captured his third world heavyweight championship in just over a year It was circle back season for WWE now And they went back to the Michaels and triple H feud for Roar Rumble 2004 Both dudes just had a full-on bloodbath in a last man standing match The match ended in a draw and both men were stretched out of the arena Definitely check this one out if you haven't fantastic on the same night Chris Benoit won the Roar Rumble and he was on SmackDown So you'd think that he would go challenge for the WWE title But he made his way over to raw and it looked like we were gonna get triple H versus Chris Benoit at WrestleMania for the world title But before Daniel Bryan was out here making matches triple threads It was Shawn Michaels who kicked Benoit on the face and signed the contract for WrestleMania 20 in his mind He was the rightful number one consender because he didn't lose to triple H So mania 20 comes and these three put on one of the best WrestleMania matches ever Definitely ends with error 404 making triple H tap out He says error 404 That's crazy You're gonna error 404, but that was a beautiful moment to see him in Eddie, Chris Benoit and Eddie like actually embrace each other in that moment because they both were champs They both was at the top. That was a beautiful moment and becoming the world heavyweight champion Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero celebrate and they're ushering in a new era Following WrestleMania 20 triple H was drafted SmackDown But he got traded back to raw for Baba, Divan and Booker T Now triple H was the only member in evolution without a championship So he came out demanding to be put in the upcoming world title match at backlash So we were getting HPK vs. Chris Benoit versus triple H at backlash It was during this time where triple H put over Shelton Benjamin in the main event of Raw and then again by count out the next week And now evolution was showing cracks triple H lost at backlash But T-Stan Flair lost their tag team titles to Edge and Benoit and it wasn't looking good We had triple H leave the world title scene and we pivoted back to Shawn Michaels versus triple H one more time These two were trying to kill each other Shawn Michaels was out here getting suspended and Instead it was Kane challenging for the world heavyweight title even though triple H was still main eventing This is around the time where we got our introduction to Eugene Who is Eugene? You might ask well He was the special needs nephew of raw GM Eric Bischoff and who was Eugene's favorite wrestler? It was triple H. So this dirty mastermind decided that he should take advantage of the Disadvantaged and he tried to use Eugene. Yo, what the fuck was going on on raw during this time These guys were playing musical chairs to determine title contenders Eugene though went on to cost triple H the world title at vengeance and again during a 60-minute Iron Man match on raw So for SummerSlam, we had triple H Taking on Eugene where triple H ended up winning because on that same night where evolution member Randy Orton was taking on Benoit for the world title and Randy took the win and became the youngest world champion in history and the breakup of Evolution was underway thumbs up thumbs down and Randy Orton was kicked out of evolution Triple H wanted the world heavyweight title But Orton just spat in his face and refused to give it back to him and we got baby face Randy Orton The two met at unforgiven 2004 and triple H ended Randy Orton's first world title reign at taboo Tuesday Triple H had a successful defense against Shawn Michaels. Yo, you would swear. This is Vince McMahon's creative plan at this time And from here it was team Orton versus team triple H at Survivor Series The winning team being able to be raw GM for one show each It was early November when we got our first glimpse of an upcoming feud between Batista and triple H Triple H leaves the locker room and Batista looks at the world title Signaling that he wanted what triple H had at Survivor Series though team Orton won with Randy Orton being the sole survivor So triple H was out here getting pissed and telling Batista that he was basically useless and not as good as he thought he was Telling Batista that he had a million dollar body and a 10 cent brain and this was good This is good story telling because you could tell they were building up for Batista to be the guy He was threatening to replace him in Evolution and then you had Ric Flair just trying to play peacemaker Batista was laying out triple H in the locker room, but they were swerving us Maybe triple H stopped that they were going too quick with this feud and they wanted to just let it burn slowly On raw the main event was triple H edge and Chris Benoit for the world's heavyweight title Where Benoit tapped out edge while his shoulders were pinned at the same time Declared vacant and triple H was out here crying and begging looking as red as a tomato begging for his world title back. I am The game tonight you will see me Like bro, just shut the fuck up. We don't want to hear you That time we still sold in seeds between Batista and triple H So Eric Bischoff decided that the vacant world title would be decided in an elimination chamber match at New Year's Revolution Yo, you guys talk about Charlotte stop padding or this guy stop padding Roman stop padding Triple H is the inventor of stop padding at New Year's Revolution Triple H pinned Randy Orton to win his fifth world title in four years Why do you guys think that triple H has the record for most elimination chamber wins? This dude was almost undefeatable in those. Yeah, but fear not this rain is coming to an end Randy Orton was out here snaking out triple H casting doubt in Batista's mind that he was being used and Batista Slowly started to turn on triple H and the reactions for Batista started to get louder Triple H was costing Batista matches and telling him not to enter the Royal Rumble Because he wanted to save his world title, but Batista went I like the idea of a Royal Rumble So he entered it So we come to Royal Rumble and triple H retains his world title burying babyface Randy Orton and at the end of the night there were two people left in the 2005 Royal Rumble Batista and John Cena two bonafide top-tier stars for WWE in the immediate future Cena and Batista both land at the same time Vince comes out tears both Restart the match that was funny Vince comes out there to restart the match and tears both his quad So he's sitting down since we start the match So they're gonna be starting that that was a footies. He just tears both his quads. He's just sitting on the mat Give it orders and Batista ends up winning the story from here was where will Batista go? Will he go to Smackdown or will he stay on raw triple H was trying to get Batista ran over by a limousine pretending He was JBL But Batista caught triple H in the act and then we got to that iconic moment in February the thumbs up thumbs down and Batista lays out Ric Flair and triple H He's going to wrestle Mania 21 and he's challenging triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship And at Mania 21 in the main events after a pretty whatever match Batista had done it He was the new World Heavyweight Champion and the future generation was a full swing Batista beat triple H again at vengeance and backlash and the reign of terror was Officially over sure triple H had Reigns here and there, but nothing was as bad as this stretch from 2002 to 2005 so was it really that bad? It was it was really bad I think I read somewhere that Vince McMahon saw that the raw brand wasn't doing so hot So he sent Pat Patterson on like a fact-finding mission and he came back to Vince and he was just like yo It's it's triple H. He's not that big of a draw people think he's boring If you look at this rain in retrospect the glaring issue is the stunting of people's momentum at triple H's expense Like Goldberg for example him winning was cool, but why didn't he just win a month earlier? Booker T? He should have won Kane that one's arguable, but you could say that he should have won It was these guys this time, but they just didn't get it. It was also this weird thing where he was like ha ha I'm on the booking team Austin's gone rocks gone. This is my show now the formulaic 20 minute promos were Absolutely abysmal. It's just shady if you really look at it There's so much politics to uncover behind what was truly happening smackdown was out here flourishing Well, raw was a rinse and repeat pattern with triple H It was actually terrible the good thing to come out of this reign of terror was we got a good feud between Hbk and Triple H Gordon's initial emergence and of course the big rub that Batista and later John Cena would get I Tortured myself by watching every segment every match drop a like for all the pain that I But I want to hear from you guys Do you guys think the reign of terror was good or bad? I'm gonna give you a like I gotta give you a like man because you was You went through hell, bro You went through hell for us I'm not gonna lie to you that is a Chore I would not want to do but I definitely agree with a lot of his Statements he made in this video triple H Even though there was a good feud and there were some good aspects that came out of that Long period of him being at the top it ultimately Stunted a lot of people's growth when they needed it Imagine if they would have gave the wind to certain people when they needed to how things would have been fresher How things would have been on Monday night raw, but that's just my opinion but comment down below Let me know do you guys agree that triple H between 2002 and 2005? Really brought down raw or as an overall show because he kept that pretty much had the World Heavyweight Championship He had it hostage or do you think from that time period? That was the the best time for you. You enjoy triple H being at the top of the card Every you know every segment of every baby view if you guys enjoy that from that time period Let me know if I appreciate it. I don't love his port road to 70 K appreciate y'all kicking me see our next piece