Triple Hs biggest feud with Steve Austin happened by a strange mix of accident and necessity. At Survivor Series 1999, Austin was ran over by a car and spent much of the next year on the shelf, while everyone speculated who was behind the wheel. When it was reveal that it was Rikishi, who did it to aid his cousin The Rocks career, fans collectively shrugged at how improbable it was. As a result, Triple H was brought in as the mastermind, which made infinitely much more sense. While Steve Austin was away injured, Triple H went from being a solid heel and talented wrestler to being the top dog, supreme bad guy of WWF, so it made much more sense that he was the one who orchestrated the entire attack. With Austin back in the picture, Triple H planned to run him over again, only for Austin to lift The Games car up twenty feet in the air with a forklift and drop it to the ground. The feud between the two culiminated at No Way Out 2001, in a grueling Three Stages of Hell match which involved a regular match, followed by a street fight, followed by a steel cage match. Triple H won the match, two falls to one, ending the feud, but both men came out looking like bigger stars than they did going into it. Oddly enough, not long after they would team up to become The Two Man Power Trip, one of the most dominant yet short-lived tag teams in WWE history.
