10 pay-per-view matches Triple H Should Have lost

#1 Triple H vs. Booker T - WrestleMania XIX

Don't hate the player, hate The Game

I don't think Triple H thinks very highly of Booker T. After one year of the mid-card, former 5-time WCW Champion Booker T was finally getting the big push. The build-up to his match with Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania, complete with racism, making Booker's WCW career look like a joke and bringing up his young criminal record, was designed to give Booker T the WrestleMania moment he deserved. This was, in fact, true, Booker T was planned to beat Triple H for the World title, but The Game had different plans.

Just like with Rob Van Dam at Unforgiven 2002, WWE was ready to pull the trigger with one of the most popular stars in the company, but same as Rob, Triple H didn't see that in Booker T, so he pulled his creative control card. The match itself was decent, but it's ending was designed to make Triple H look like the best in all of WWE. Where it took The Rock three Rock Bottoms to defeat Steve Austin, Brock Lesnar three F-5's to defeat Kurt Angle and Hulk Hogan 3 Atomic Leg Drops to pin Vince McMahon, Triple H hot Booker T with one pedigree, then laid in the ring for a full 19 seconds, before pinning him. Booker T wouldn't see the main event scene again until late 2004 and wouldn't be a World Champion in WWE until 2006.

The next time Triple H faced Booker T on pay-per-view was when he returned from his torn right quadriceps at SummerSlam 2007. Triple H squashed him in 8 minutes. The Game gave him nothing to work with.