10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Sin Cara

10. He Was Triple H's Guy

Triple H revels in his role as adulated NXT head honcho, and with good reason. From a star creation, episodic television and match quality perspective, the supposed developmental league p*sses on its main roster equivalent from a great height. Trips famously loves the spotlight - but at least he's only taking pictures with new NXT champions, and not booking himself into high profile series opposite them.

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His role as developmental godfather, however, started as inauspiciously as his WWF career - only, instead of being thrown face-first into pig sh*t by Henry O. Godwinn, Triple H covered it with egg by allowing pet project Cara to sidestep the developmental system altogether.

Unlike Alberto Del Rio, who learned how to wrestle opponents on the unfamiliar left side in Florida Championship Wrestling, the original Sin Cara - Luis Urive, former Mexican sensation as Mistico - debuted directly on main roster programming.

It's often easy to view Triple H with cynicism - did he really torpedo the 2011 Summer of Punk because the Straight Edge Superstar poked fun at The Chaperone? - and if one does take this view, they might jump to the conclusion that Cara was trotted out before he was ready in order to cover Triple H's scouting nous in glory.

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