[1999-03-15-WWF-Raw] HHH and Kane

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Clip of Kane throwing a fireball at HHH and hitting Chyna by accident the previous week to start. The fireball looked awesome. HHH does his first real angry promo and really feels like a B-plus player. He is angry since the fireball was intended for him and wants Kane to come out. They end up brawling around the ringside area. Vince casually walks out and asks Kane to stop beating up HHH because he needs his help. Every time Kane tries to go with him and help, HHH stops him to brawl. Kane takes off his mask and it's the Undertaker in the outfit. The lights go out, and when they come back in the ring, Vince is alone with HHH. Funny that all this time, Mr. McMahon and HHH never interacted. I remember thinking it was so weird at the time that DX and Vince never even had a verbal spar or anything.

[tim]

B-plus player is right. Triple H feels so out of place in his position. He's obviously more than a midcarder and they're going to push him big soon, but compare him to the top guys, charismatic mega stars like Austin and Rock; an interesting, charismatic guy with amazing mic skills and sympathy like Foley; over the top ass kicker gimmicks like Undertaker and Kane ... what makes Triple H a cut above any of the other mid carders? The crowd doesn't seem terribly into this either. The Undertaker reveal though was unexpected and pretty well done I thought.

[Tim Evans]

Does Vince have a mic on him hidden somewhere? Sounds so clear. HHH looks massive getting ready for his heel turn. I liked the reveal at the end.

[soup23]

HHH promo was fine but I agree that he is in kind of a weird spot. A little like Booker T and Scott Steiner in WCW currently. This reveal was good as I had forgotten about this and it fooled me so kudos for that even though the end game is pretty dumb overall.

[PeteF3]

Triple H calls out KANE-UHH. Yeah, they fooled me on this one, too. We get a patented Vince Russo segment that he can't be bothered to write a real ending for.