10 Biggest Regrets From Triple H's WWE Career

This time around, the aim at least was a lot more clear. Roman Reigns was struggling to get over as a babyface, with much of the WWE universe roundly rejecting this corporate creation. He needed a hated heel to go over at the year’s biggest show, and someone in the office - probably someone who looked a lot like Triple H - suggested it ought to be Triple H.

This led to Hunter winning his second Rumble at the expense of Dean Ambrose and going on to work one of the most ploddingly tedious main events in the show’s history. Now, in fairness, WWE was injury-blighted at the time. The likes of Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton, John Cena, and Daniel Bryan were injured, then-retired, or otherwise indisposed, so shoving Triple H into that spot wasn’t such a crazy idea.

Having him put on a deeply dull 27 minute match, though, certainly was. As an effort to crown Reigns as The Guy, it absolutely failed. The crowd don’t much want to see either man win, and the interest levels only drop as it goes on. When Reigns gets the pin and the title, the piped in cheers are more obvious than they were in the Thunderdome.

The main event should be the time to put on an epic, but you cannot force an epic into existence. That’s just a long, boring match.