Hi Scott,
Super longtime fan of your work, love reading and rereading your PPV rants in the years I wasn't an active Wrestling watcher. Been talking with my brother about Triple H whom he never really liked as a wrestler or from what we've all heard backstage. I admit to enjoying his run as you did in 2000 putting on phenomenal matches with Rock and Foley. Is it fair to say Triple H is this generations Hulk Hogan? Definitely a more able bodied wrestler with the right worker but I can't recall another wrestler in the last 25 plus years who so thoroughly put himself over any and everyone as a heel AND face. Had programs with both Randy Orton and Chris Jericho and dominated them on both sides of the spectrum, put himself over Rock at 'Mania, and just tons of other examples I can't remember. I'm aware there was a time he was the only top name left after Austin and Rock departed but that's time he definitely should have been willing to give certain up and comers the benefit of the rub like the effort he only seems to give to people like Michaels, 'Taker and, my god...NASH. and other people he seems to think are at his "level". It's almost shocking the way some people got over despite his ridiculously dominant booking.
Well Hogan drew a shitload more money year-to-year than HHH did, even though HHH is pretty near the top overall because of years of being a top guy. That being said, Hogan never achieved anywhere near the power that HHH currently has, although in WCW it was close.
Either way, I think we can agree that Punk-Bryan was ****3/4.