10 Incredible Transformations From Jobbers To WWE Champions
4. Triple H
It almost never comes up, but did you know that Hunter Hearst Helmsley was told to "eat sh*t and learn to like the taste of it" by future Father-In-Law Vince McMahon back in 1996 after breaking kayfabe at the end of a Madison Square Garden house show?
Indeed, Triple H's enforced sentence as a jobber-to-the-stars that summer has been needlessly well-documented over the years, but it's with some irony that his most famous humbling came two months before the fabled Kliq "Curtain Call".
A humiliating WrestleMania XII defeat to the Ultimate Warrior followed a routine Raw loss to Bret Hart in the build to the 'Show Of Shows'. This too after being backdropped into pigsh*t by Henry Godwinn at the prior December's In Your House and working two straight pay-per-views with Duke 'The Dumpster' Droese at the start of 1996.
It's funny; 'The Game's period in the sin bin is somewhat overstated (Helmsley was "buried" from May onwards, but back on pay-per-view and winning the Intercontinental Championship by October) but he spent as long before that in the doldrums when he was still technically in the good books. At least that rollercoaster readied him for life as the face of WWE's black (and gold) sheep on Wednesday Nights.