The Game’s bizarre beef with Triple H: “I’ll body slam his ass”
The Game has played his part in many feuds throughout his time, but the weirdest one had nothing to do with hip-hop. He once ended up getting into it with a pro wrestler.
Paul Michael Levesque is better known as Triple H, and he started his pro wrestling career back in the early ’90s. But when his performing days were done, he moved into the business side of things. He today enjoys a high-flying position at WWE.
Triple H doesn’t seem especially like the sort of person to get caught up in a hip-hop feud, but that’s exactly what happened. He ended up beefing with The Game—and the specter of legal action was raised.
According to The Game himself, Triple H tried to sue him. The reason for this was because of the rapper’s stage name—Triple H, not content with being known by this nickname, had also started calling himself “The Game” by 2000. So when the rapper bearing this same moniker showed up on the scene, the wrestler wasn’t at all happy.
“Yeah, Triple H is tryin’ to sue me for ‘The Game,’” the Compton rapper claimed in an interview with RapReviews.com in 2006, before, in his typical braggadocious manner, he started saying that they should fight it out for the rights to use it.
“I think that we should just take it to Pay Per View and have a wrestling match, man,” The Game said, “so I can fuck him up, because I’m not into that whole play wrestling thing.”
The Game’s fantasies of violence and fighting bore the same whiff of pageantry and hubris as the act of pro wrestling itself, so perhaps he could have made it big in the ring, had he ever put his mind to it.
“We can really take it to the streets,” he said, “we can wrestle right in the middle of Compton. We can put up a makeshift ring made out of shoestrings and light posts. I’ll get in there and body slam his ass all over the place for the name.”
At the time of writing, no such match-up has ever taken place, and the rapper known as “The Game” continues to operate under the moniker. But perhaps he and Triple H should arrange a fight after all. Absurd celebrity boxing match-ups are all the rage these days, so clearly there’s money to be made.