Triple H is undoubtedly one of the top names of WWE and it seems back in the day he had been vocal about not facing a star. Nick Dinsmore, known in WWE as Eugene, recently recalled how ‘The Game’ was against facing him at SummerSlam 2004. Triple H had also previously tried to sign four top AEW stars.
Triple H did not want to face Eugene
Dinsmore had portrayed a controversial underdog character who struggled with learning difficulties. His Eugene persona appeared in segments and storylines with some of WWE’s biggest names between 2004 and 2007, including Kurt Angle and The Rock. Speaking on Rene Dupree’s Cafe de Rene podcast, Dinsmore revealed that The Game allegedly did not want their feud to result in a pay-per-view match. However, it was WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, who liked the storyline and decided to book the two men against each other at SummerSlam:
“Someone had said, I don’t know if this is true, he (Triple H) didn’t feel like Eugene was the right guy he probably should have wrestled at SummerSlam. But Vince was like, ‘No, this is the blow-off, we need a pinnacle here.’ I don’t know, but Triple H had fun with it because all of a sudden he’s got a guy who can work a different character.”
The match at SummerSlam in 2004 went on for 14 minutes and ended with The Game picking up the win after hitting Eugene with a Pedigree. Three weeks later, the feud culminated when The King of Kings defeated his rival on the September 6, 2004, episode of RAW. Dinsmore had briefly returned to WWE in 2009 as Eugene but he only competed in one televised match. He also worked as an NXT trainer in 2013 and 2014.
Triple H has not appeared on WWE or WWE NXT programming since undergoing a procedure at Yale-New Haven Hospital following a cardiac event caused by a genetic heart issue in September of 2021.
