Orton, Cena and HHH

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In the last five years (starting with the first PPV after SummerSlam 2004, when Orton won the belt for the first time), some combination of Randy Orton, John Cena, and Triple H have wrestled against each other TWENTY-FOUR TIMES. That includes singles, tag, and multi-man matches, but not Royal Rumbles.

That means Cena-Orton at SummerSlam will be the 25th match in the last five years featuring some combo of these three against each other.

and its getting more boring each time

If you do count Rumbles it comes to 30 (Summerslam being 31). More worryingly HHH and Orton have faced each other 17 times since 2003.

Ironically The Rock and HHH faced each other 17 times between 1996 and 2000 and no one seems to complain.

Various combos of Steve Austin, HHH, Mick Foley, The Rock and The Undertaker have faced each other 113 times over the years though none of them faced each other more than 17 times although Austin and 'Taker did come close with 16 matches over approximatly 5 years

Austin and Taker had fantastic characters though and both where excellent in the ring, they both made you believe what you where seeing! Trips can do that to an extent but not enough to make it enjoyable, if you've seen one Triple H match you've seen them all

That's a shocking statistic and it's exactly the reason why RAW suffered so badly post the draft. All Vince saw was that sticking together what he thought were 3 of his biggest 'household' names would be a great money spinner but has proven to be a disaster with tired storylines and several guys with exactly the same ring personality.

thing is as well the Orton/Triple H storyline despite being done numerous times was hot as hell leading into Mania, the fact they played the match so straight was what killed it, they where onto something big, they could still be riding the coatails of that story had they played it right, they didn't an it became an epic fail then te snide way Triple H had to lose the title after that as well in the 6 man tag team match, everything became so cheap and short sighted

I'd like to know what's going on behind the scenes with Cena/HHH. It was quite obvious that Batista was due to turn heel prior to his injury but that had to be shelved and the last PPV was a prime opportunity for either Cena/HHH to turn when in a triple threat match but it never materialised. It's often been reported that HHH wants to turn but I'm wondering if that's really the case and he's pushing more for it to be Cena.

It's one of those Catch 22 things - Cena's character is begging for a heel turn to get rid of the awful promo's, but they'd be writing off the merchandise sales that go with it. I'd honestly say that Trips probably wants Cena to turn more, but Vince is saying no.

However, in the long-term, a Cena heel-turn and face switch after that would be the best way I can see for them to go. Although the time to have turned Cena would have been after Mania 23, now he's starting to be accepted (or at least the boos aren't quite as obvious) as a face.

I think the Cena heel turn has to come ona massive stage and for me that would be either Mania, the Rumble or SummerSlam, I'd have loved him to turn heel at Mania XXV

Having him come out for some unknown reason after Legacy attack Triple H and hurt Vince and Stephanie again, have him come out to make the save only for him to FU the wrestlecrap right out of Triple H and have Orton stand him up and RKO him and for Mania to go off air with the two new World Champions celebrating together and joint leading Legacy!