Episode 54 of ‘Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard’ covered the ‘In Your House: Canadian Stampede ’97’ Pay-Per-View. The episode is a lot of fun with some great stories about the event.
One of these stories had to do with how much Triple H HATED wearing his King of the Ring gear. In case you are unfamiliar, Hunter Hearst Helmsley won the 1997 King of the Ring tournament. As a result of his win, he had to wear the crown and the cape for the next several weeks as was tradition.
Here is what Prichard said about Triple H hating the gear that he had to wear:
“It was hilarious how many times and how many different scepters that we had for Triple H from the [King Of The Ring] that he destroyed. He hated wearing the crown, hated the scepter, hated the cape. So he would just tear them up any time they’d get him a new one. It was ‘hey man you’re the King Of The Ring, Vince wants you to wear the crown and the cape’ — ‘I don’t wanna wear it.’ And ‘it’s hokey, I’m not gonna wear that f*cking sh-t, it’s a f*cking plastic crown, it looks like sh*t. I’m gonna f*cking destroy it every f*cking night”
Prichard continued, saying Triple H would find a way to destroy the crown every night:
“And so Vince said: ‘alright, get him a bunch of crowns and scepters!’ So Vince was determined on the other side. I’m gonna keep feeding him a crown every night until he wears the damn thing. And on the third one he finally — ‘f*ck it! So yeah, it was probably three weeks worth of ‘Hunter you need to wear the crown. You need to go out and be the king.’ — ‘I don’t wanna be the king. I don’t wanna wear the crown.’ — ‘You need to wear the crown’ — ‘I’m gonna f*cking bust it up, I’m gonna break it.’ And somehow every match he would find some way to get the crown to either fall off his head, and accidentally get stepped on or used as a weapon.”
Eventually Triple H got his wish and didn’t have to use the crown or the cape anymore. The podcast is highly recommended for fans of wrestling history!
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[h/t WrestlingNews]
