Spit water in their face?

Sledgehammer to the gut?

It's Dusty Rhodes in here.

Gotta say, this was pretty awesome.

That was pretty cool. Who was the other wrestler in the ring with him?

Staffist: It's Dusty Rhodes in here.

Mentat: That was pretty cool. Who was the other wrestler in the ring with him?

Shawn Michaels, which makes this video a few years old.

/the ugly pants are a giveaway

I applaud the use of the word "typical" in the headline.

Mentat: That was pretty cool. Who was the other wrestler in the ring with him?

Looked like Shawn Michaels.

Seamer: Never liked the Triple H character... Too stagnant when not in d-gen mode.

This is very nice, though. +1

I liked him when he was in mini-Vince mode with Stephanie and Chris Jericho was terrorizing them.

I was totally waiting for him to body slam the dude.

andrewagill: I am not a wrestling fan, so someone will have to explain how this is breaking character and not just doing a thing before the ballet starts.

Generally speaking, even in this day when almost everyone is 'in' on the joke, pro wrestlers try never
to break character if they are in an arena in front of a crowd, especially during televised shows. Its
part of the theatre of it all.

This must have been a house show, where things are somewhat looser.

But this? Awesome.

I am no fan of Paul Levesque; I feel that he has always been a very selfish and ego-driven performer
who took his cues from other self-serving toads like Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash and has always
made himself look good at all costs and kept down many up-and-coming performers who he
perceived as a threat to him.

That said: this was a truly classy move on his part, and I will give him great credit that he is a decent
human being away from the twisted world of pro wrestling.

andrewagill: Mattyb710: andrewagill: I am not a wrestling fan, so someone will have to explain how this is breaking character and not just doing a thing before the ballet starts.

I think at the time Triple H was supposed to be a major asshole. I'm not sure though, because usually the assholes don't go around shaking hands with the fans. Either way, this is pretty great.

Thanks for the explanation. No offense to DjangoStonereaver. I already knew they didn't break character, but I didn't know what the character was. I figured it must have been an asshole character if he had to break character to do this, but I was interested in finding the actual answer.

I would assume that Triple H was supposed to be the self-congratulatory type of asshole if he's shaking hands with the fans.

I completely missed that you didn't know the Triple H character, and yes, he is supposed to be an
evil 'heel' asshole: the origin of the character was back when he was in WCW as "Hunter Hearst
Helmsley", a pretty run-of-the-mill spoiled vain rich kid in the vein of Gorgeous George or The
Million Dollar Man. He kept that persona when he first jumped to the WWE/F, but over time the
part about him being a spoiled rich guy has receeded into the background and he began referring
to himself as HHH (Triple H) because he was just too cool, yo.

styckx: Awesome indeed.. That kid will never forget that.. Faith in humanity restored.

/at least for a few seconds until I read the rest of todays awful news

Stay away from the Politics tab. Ditto on the awesome

That was pretty nice. Probably one of the more memorable moments of that guy's life. Though probably the last thing I want to do is hug a bare-chested sweaty/oily guy.

If you're not downy with that, then we got 2 words for ya!
/I'm going to hell.
//good on you Mr. Aitches.

This is why he would have been a better president than Nixon.