7 Times Triple H Buried WWE's Tag Team Division
The shovel is often mightier than the tag.
You either love Triple H, or you hate him.
You will love him for the two decades of in-ring excellence, the fantastic WrestleMania matches and the eFed fantasy come to life that is NXT, or you may even love him for handing Kevin Owens the Universal Championship. You will hate him because the man has arguably the biggest reputation for backstage scheming and talent burying in the business.
Triple h has undoubtedly buried a large amount of talent throughout his career, but at certain points he seems to have had particular disdain for the tag team division. The desperate desire to make Triple H out to be some sort of barbarian warrior who takes on all comers has left a lot of tag teams in its wake, abandoned to the larger, self-serving goal.
Why does Triple H hate tag team wrestling so much? Could it be because WCW were only willing to guarantee him a tag team championship run way back in 1995, when the pre-Game threatened to leave for the then-WWF?
Whatever the reason, the disgust is real...
7. Legacy - 2009
Throughout 2009, Triple H found himself at odds with two young superstars under the tutelage of Hunter's rival Randy Orton. Those superstars were Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, collectively known as the Legacy, a duo who were clearly positioned as being the best tag team on the roster at this time. They were involved in major angles and even managed to pick up a win over Hunter and Shawn Michaels at Breaking Point '09.
This was a brief moment of sunlight in the otherwise dark world that was Rhodes and DiBiase in this rivalry. Hunter repeatedly beat the duo on house shows throughout the autumn, whether on his own in 2-on-1 handicaps, or with a partner against all three members of Legacy.
The duo were repeatedly made to look feckless without Randy by their side. Booking your tag champions to lose a handicap match is never, ever a good idea. It seems to have been one that Hunter has been fond of throughout his career, however, as you will see throughout the feature.
In a nice bit of symmetry, Hunter's penultimate opponent on WCW TV was actually none other than Cody's big brother, Dustin Runnels (then billed as Dustin Rhodes).