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- Triple H defeated Randy Orton with a Pedigree. After the match, Legacy attacked Triple H but John Cena made the save. They celebrated in the ring with the French flag.

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Triple H b. Randy Orton

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Joey Styles: Randy, 3 months ago when you punted Mr. McMahon in the skull did you really envision things ending this way, really?

Randy: It all started with a swift kick to the skull of Vince McMahon, and then Shane and Stephanie McMahon had to get in my way, which didn’t work out to well for them. But Triple H had to come along and defend his wife’s honor. He needed a sledge hammer at Wrestlemania to beat me because he knew that he was close to being done. And then tonight, the final chapter in the career of Triple H comes to an end as he leaves Backlash in an ambulance. While Legacy, while Randy Orton leaves Backlash WWE Champion.

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Triple H went on to say last night was not about him being the best, or about the WWE Championship, and that last night was about revenge. He spoke of Randy attacking his wife, his family and how it was all just to get at him. Also noting despite him reigning victoriously over Randy tonight, that it was far from over.

He then took on a different tone when he began to speak into the camera sending Randy a message.
“Randy Orton I see you, your mine. Tonight was one step, you get in my face again I will end it for good. You come for that WWE Championship, you come for anything you want, leave everybody else out of it. And come again for me Randy Orton and you will end up back unconscious where you ended up in the middle of that ring on the biggest stage of them all. 25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania Randy Orton saw you down, saw you beaten, game over Orton, game over.”

No words needed to be spoken. No blows exchanged.

Everything – all the shock, the pain, the suppressed rage – everything was written deeply into the lines on their faces. An incensed Triple H knelt beside the limp body of his wife, Stephanie McMahon, and locked eyes with Randy Orton, the man who, moments earlier, had rendered his beloved unconscious with an RKO and slithered from the ring. It was in that white-hot moment that both men recognized that a line had been crossed, that matters between them were now far too personal to ever be the same again. (WATCH)

With that anguish still seared into his conscience, WWE Champion Triple H will face down the challenge of his tormentor as he and Orton meet in a WWE Championship Match at the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania. The Game, however, cannot allow his emotions to rage untethered as Orton convinced Raw’s interim General Manager Vickie Guerrero to stipulate that Triple H will lose the title if he gets disqualified or counted out. 

A month prior to his RKO on Stephanie, Orton’s path had intersected with his former partner in Evolution at the Royal Rumble during which Triple H faced down the onslaught not only of Orton but also of his “Legacy” henchmen, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. While The Cerebral Assassin, alone with Legacy, managed to lay waste to two of the second-generation Superstars, the numbers would overcome him, and Orton would emerge victorious, ensuring himself a match at the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania.

Orton’s violent journey toward Triple H would persist as he continued to put one foot in front of the other – his right foot to be precise. 

In a fit of unchecked aggression, Orton punted Mr. McMahon in the skull with that punishing foot just as The Chairman appeared ready to fire him. While Triple H and his father-in-law have shared a well-documented contempt for one another over the years, it’s one thing to quarrel with a family member, but it’s quite another when someone else does it.

Ever proud, The King of Kings must have looked upon Orton’s despicable actions as an insult to all that the McMahon family has achieved, all that with which Triple H now finds himself inextricably intertwined.

Orton, however, would not stop there. Seemingly blinded with rage, the Legend Killer then trained his sights on Shane. Understandably livid, the younger McMahon sought to avenge his father, going so far as to agree to a No Holds Barred Match with Orton at No Way Out. Like his father, Shane would succumb to the treacherous dealings of the Legend Killer, who, with help from “Legacy,” dropped the progeny with a painful RKO.

For weeks afterward, the combustion between Orton and the McMahon family grew ever more intense until finally the flames of animosity were fanned into a rampaging blaze.

Sparked by Orton’s anger, or what he classified as IED (Intermittent Explosive Disorder), the Legend Killer employed Rhodes and DiBiase again during a match against Shane on Raw. As McMahon geared up to go Coast-to-Coast on his opponent, Orton’s lackeys interrupted, pummeling Shane and leaving him dazed on the mat. Unfortunately for Shane, his problems were only just beginning. In a sick rerun of events a month prior, Orton booted Shane in the skull, rendering him unconscious. That’s when a distraught Stephanie rushed to her brother’s side only to find herself leveled with an RKO. See this and more in RK-Ode…

The sight of his wife lying unconscious at the hands of Orton was almost too much for Triple H to bear. The following week, The Game would exact a small measure of revenge. Wielding his always convincing sledgehammer, Triple H punished both Rhodes and DiBiase. For his part, Orton narrowly escaped, finally fleeing the carnage in a car.

While he may have fled, Orton could not find solace - even within the certain comfort of his home in St. Louis. On a startlingly memorable Raw, The Cerebral Assassin took a field trip to The Legend Killer’s abode to seek Orton’s blood. Tearing through the Orton household with sledgehammer in tow, Triple H exacted the physical damage he sought. After driving his foe through the front window of his own house, the WWE Champion was apprehended by the authorities, at risk of criminal charges and the cancellation of his confrontation with Orton at WrestleMania. Watch the home invasion…

But the Legacy leader had other plans and other intentions than to have The Game incarcerated. Despite Orton’s own mandate that barred physicality between he and the WWE Champion until WrestleMania, The Legend Killer decided that his WWE Title opportunity was the more important factor. Thus, the No. 1 contender proclaimed that it would be he who renders judgment upon The Cerebral Assassin, under “Orton’s law.”

Under The Legend Killer’s rule or not, at WrestleMania there will be no escape. The situation has grown far too personal. While there’s no telling what depths Orton will plumb in order to save himself, there’s also no telling just how far Triple H is willing to go to seek vengeance for those he holds so dear – his family.