10 Fascinating WWE Backstage Facts About Triple H
3. WCW Didn't Rate Him
While Triple H's blue blood gimmick portrayed him as somebody preordained for greatness and WWE identified him as a pushable commodity from the moment he walked into the company, his first major employers had a different view of 'The Game's' long-term potential.
WCW didn't value Jean-Paul Lévesque. At all. After debuting as the god-awful Terra Ryzing, he formed a lowly tag team with Lord Steven Regal, though his snooty character offered little upward momentum. Hunter wasn't happy with this. He went to management in January 1995, asked for a bigger push, but was quickly laughed off.
The joke was on Ted Turner's company in the end. WWE snatched him away from WCW soon after this, and thus began the rise of one of their greatest modern stars, who cut his teeth as Hunter Hearst Helmsley, before reinventing himself with D-Generation X, becoming a certified main event heel.
WCW's stance was laughable in hindsight. Keeping hold of Triple H wouldn't have been enough to stop their inevitable demise, letting such a hot prospect slip through their fingers, particularly to their biggest rival, demonstrated a remarkable lack of sound judgement.