10 Triple H Orchestrated Championship Screwjobs

As a wrestler who’s spent much of his career cavorting in heel factions, colluding with the daughter of the chairman of the company and generally just abusing any position of authority, it’s not too surprising that Triple H’s insecure, power hungry character has been involved in his fair share of screwjobs.

Also, considering he’s managed to amass 14 world titles across a 22-year WWE career, it’s perhaps only natural that plenty of those screwjobs have affected high-profile championship matches.

From those early days of tomfoolery with Shawn Michaels, to the gang warfare antics of D-Generation X and any of his runs alongside Stephanie McMahon, it feels like Triple H has never been far from a controversial finish.

Sometime they’ve played into long-term angles, other times they’ve simply been a means of getting him heat. And sometimes, on rare occasions, the controversy has spilled over into the real-life goings-on behind the scenes. More on that one later, though.

Here in this list, the very concept of which speaks volumes about Triple H’s on-screen persona, we delve into ten championship screwjobs that 'The Game' has played a huge part in.

Back during the McMahon-Helmsley era, Triple H used his “authority” to screw Chris Jericho out of a WWE title win and fire Earl Hebner for good measure.

Kicking off Raw with an impromptu championship defense against Jericho, Triple H let his temper get the better of him as he shoved replacement referee Hebner to the ground – to which Hebner would respond shortly after with a fast count to gift Jericho the victory.

Of course, 'The Game' was having none of it. Straight after the match, he was in the back, chasing down Hebner and dragging him back out to ring along with Mike Chioda, the referee who’d initially been assigned to the match.

Triple H had Chioda confirm the fast count, before using that clarification to force Hebner to reverse the decision, retrieve the title from a guiltless Jericho and literally put the belt back around Triple H’s waist. The champ then put the icing on the cake by firing Hebner for his actions and laying him out with a Pedigree.

That left Jericho, who’d technically done nothing wrong, robbed of a title win simply because Triple H had power to abuse as the on-screen husband of a McMahon.