10 Biggest Regrets From Triple H's WWE Career

10. The Curtain Call

Ultimately things worked out for Triple H in the aftermath of the 1996 incident. At the time, though, he must have felt like a promising career was about to come to a grinding halt due to something easily avoidable.

That April, Kevin Nash and the late Scott Hall were poised to leave WWE for WCW. In a moment of unusual charity, Vince McMahon allowed the future Outsiders to share an in-ring hug with Helmsley and Shawn Michaels so that the Kliq boys could say goodbye.

The problem was that Nash and HHH were working heel, and HBK and Hall weren’t. What’s more, the hug went on for far longer than agreed, to kayfabe-busting proportions. Add in the fact that the moment was captured on camcorder and this was blown up into an incident.

Hall and Nash were gone; Michaels was the champion and thus untouchable. Accordingly HHH bore the brunt in full. A push was kiboshed, and back down the card he went. Ultimately, though, Triple H turned this disaster into a positive, taking his punishment stoically and earning the respect of the roster.