To get ahead in this dumbass pseudo-sport, a wrestler must often rely on playing backstage politics. That wasn’t the big match. The only match people remember in 2026 - and Triple H knew this in 2013 - was the second match at WrestleMania 29. Nobody actually liked it, but nobody emerged from the wider rivalry thinking that Triple H had truly, emphatically put Lesnar over. Incredibly, Triple H actually was winding his run down - the teased SummerSlam retirement was halfway legit - and he still wouldn’t go the whole way.