You may be asking yourselves how this can be considered anything associated with awesome? But the injury, as per the nature of the beast that is professional wrestling, opened up a number of spots at the top of the card for others to flourish. It also allowed HHH to return as one of, if not the biggest babyface in the company and assert his place as one of the real generals in the locker room, heavily shaping the future of WWE. It happened during arguably the best WWE match that never was. Chris Benoit's double murder suicide means the company obviously don't pay any attention to the stellar bout, which saw the Rabid Wolverine and Chris Jericho take on the team of Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Game. Jericho had Austin in the Walls and Hunter struck Y2J from behind, but in the process of doing so his quad quite literally detached and rolled up his leg. Even still, he somehow managed to go through what had to be the unbearable pain of a Walls on the announce table before completing the match. Triple H, quite frankly, shouldn't have been able to walk at the time, but did, which is as good a measure of the professional as you'll get. Eight months on the shelf and Triple H was back in the ring and better than ever. An awesome story that wasn't supposed to happen. How would WWE have looked in 2001 if the injury never occurred. Chris Jericho, for one, is certainly happy it did...
