Could Val Venis have been Triple H?

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Lol you must just hate HHH. HHH was actually a good heel, good wrestler (those other 3 guys athletically were fine but couldnt put together good matches) and could talk and move a storyline forward.
Triple H was a good but not great wrestler who did boring wack promos. You could take a few generic tall roided up blonde He-man type build wrestler and give them Triple H’s booking and push and they’d probably be the same thing.

You couldn’t say that about any of the GOATs...Austin, Rock, HBK, Sting, Hoegan, Savage, Hitman, Flair, etc.
 

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I see what OP is going for. HHH was average AF without the hype machine so what i think he's trying to ask is could Val have been as big with the same care?

The answer is an emphatic no though. HHH for all of the faults people can bring up about him had a drive to be like his hero Ric Flair and it played in the way he carried himself. And also not for nothing HHH was a pretty good bump guy when he weighed less and didnt have knee issues.

I dont see Val even with the machine being as convincing as HHH was.
 

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Remember when in 99 they tried to give val a push? He had a good match with stone cold I remember. He probably could have been main eventing. I guess it was that he couldn't shake the gimmick that they gave him.
 

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No, the porn character could only go so far and they waited til they had one of the greatest rosters ever to change his character where he had absolutely no chance of out shining anyone
 

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Remember when in 99 they tried to give val a push? He had a good match with stone cold I remember. He probably could have been main eventing. I guess it was that he couldn't shake the gimmick that they gave him.

Yeah in late 99 they switched up his character, focused less on the porn star gimmick and he was booked as this aggressive heel. Feuded with Foley and had matches with Rock and Austin, so they were clearly trying to push him to the next level, but it never really panned out.

I thought he was a good worker, good look, he was okay on the mic, but I dunno with better booking he might've been a bigger star but he wasn't reaching HHH levels.
 
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