10 Images That Proved 2017 Was Wrestling’s Craziest Year Ever
8. All About The Game
In 2014, CM Punk literally walked out WWE when faced with the prospect of wrestling Triple H at WrestleMania XXX. 'The Game' had delivered the news himself with the implication that the match against him at the 'Show Of Shows' was as good as (if not better than) a title match the 'Voice Of The Voiceless' desperately wanted.
It's lucky for the company his potential WrestleMania 34 opponents didn't do the same, otherwise there may have been no Survivor Series main event left.
Triple H returned to television just six days before the November classic, inserted himself into the main event and then completely overtook it. It looked on paper to be one of the company's biggest ever main events (more on that later), and with political dexterity unseen since his 2003 worst, Hunter wrapped himself in an electric blanket powered by everybody else's heat.
He set up potential WrestleMania programmes with Braun Strowman, Kurt Angle, and Shane McMahon. He shared the stage with NXT graduates Shinsuke Nakamura, Finn Bálor and Bobby Roode, and had the gaul to instruct commentators to position them as nothing without his guidance. As a machiavellian operator, was this the veteran's finest hour?