10 Biggest Triple H Guys In WWE History

10. Curtis Axel

During his stint on the second season of NXT, Joe Hennig (then known as Michael McGillicutty) showed shades of greatness, coming oh so close to winning the entire competition before coming second place to Kaval. He spent some time in The New Nexus for the better part of 2011, but aside from a forgettable reign as WWE Tag Team champion, he was mostly marginalized on the main roster.

After parting ways with the black-and-yellow faction, he spent the next few years in wrestling purgatory a.k.a. WWE Superstars on Thursday nights. He was on the brink of being released with no hope of ever getting his rightful due when he was suddenly repackaged as Curtis Axel and introduced as the newest "Paul Heyman Guy" on the May 20, 2013 edition of Raw.

While he was paired with the founder of ECW on WWE TV, it was actually Triple H who saw him for the talent he truly was. Axel helping The Rock train for his matches whenever he returned to the ring certainly worked in his favor, but had it not been for Triple H playing a part in the revival of his career, who knows where he would have ended up?

In fact, Axel was Triple H's first opponent on Raw in nearly three years and HHH went so far as to put him over (albeit by forfeit).