WWE: Why Triple H Should Have Made More TV Appearances

This upcoming Monday has the 1,000th RAW episode coming, as well as the return of many former superstars. The show will see Brock Lesnar and The Rock return, but will lead off with the reunion of D-Generation X. Shawn Michaels and Triple H will stand in the ring together once again to lead the festivities of celebrating the milestone of WWE's flagship show.

This will be a welcome change since seeing Triple H in recent weeks on RAW has been rather rare. The situation with The Game and Brock Lesnar is supposed to come to a head on RAW Monday night, perhaps in a way to interrupt the DX reunion. Lesnar is expected to accept Triple H's challenge for a match at SummerSlam.

Triple H appeared at No Way Out to bring forth the actual challenge to Lesnar. It was Paul Heyman, the representative of Lesnar, who initially refused the challenge by Triple H. It would take another appearance by Triple H to prompt Heyman to announce that Lesnar will address it in person at the 1,000th RAW.

However, doesn't the build for this match's announcement, which is supposed to be a main event draw at the second-biggest pay-per-view of the year, feel like an afterthought? There's so much to expect on Monday night for the three-hour celebration that the hype really is not about the return of Brock Lesnar to WWE programming. You can't really blame Lesnar for that. His contract has him only appearing so many times, so it is up to someone else to lengthen the importance of this. That's where Triple H comes into play.

He's the COO of WWE. Does it really strain the product to have him on television regularly? Mr. McMahon can pop up on television whenever he feels like doing so, but it is somehow a crazy notion for Triple H to appear?

Last that I checked, there was no on-air personality to act as the authority figure this past week. Couldn't Triple H, in his current position, be a simple appointment into that spot? Triple H actually did run episodes of RAW and Smackdown, not only as COO, but during the McMahon-Helmsley Era in early 2000. Triple H alienated the roster then, just like he had a staged walkout and a vote of no confidence under his watch last year, but he's still an authority figure.

Triple H could have managed episode 999 of RAW, briefly address the Lesnar situation, and remind us all that Lesnar will return next week. Instead, it has almost been pushed to the back burner. Now, there is just too much going on this Monday that it is secondary. Considering Triple H vs Brock Lesnar as a main event match, but the match itself being created couldn't be a big selling point of a monumental RAW is kind of inconsistent.

The Game can sure drag out a promo, but it can make things interesting when some episodes of RAW in recent weeks have been pretty brutal. Triple H can carry on, but if it eliminates unnecessary matches, marriage proposals or ridiculous investigations for anonymous RAW general managers, it is just fine. Now, as we look at the 1,000th RAW, there is an appearance from The Rock, a reunion of DX, a Money in the Bank cash-in by John Cena and a wedding involving AJ and Daniel Bryan. This doesn't even include Christian's Intercontinental Championship, which may be changing hands, as is the norm with high-profile RAW episodes.

Where does Brock Lesnar rank on this? Where do you put the segment? Do you lead off the second hour with it for ratings purposes? Does it interrupt the DX reunion to make for one incredible opening segment? There is absolutely no hype or questioning for when this will go down because WWE has seemingly forgotten about it.

It's almost like when WWE kept talking about Tout and forgot to mention Charlie Sheen live tweeting RAW. Yeah, that's still happening too.

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