10 Signs Your Favourite Wrestler Was Turning Heel
9. Steve Austin Can't Trust Triple H
When Triple H received that all-timer of a reaction at Madison Square Garden in 2002, fans and indeed the company were given an all-too-brief glimpse at what could have been had 'The Game' embraced the role two years earlier.
That New York crowd - and every gleeful TV viewer - had yet to see his precipitous decline as a wrestler during his time away, and were giddy at the prospect of Hunter's return being one they were actually permitted to enjoy.
It had been taken away twice before.
Triple H had swerve turned on The Rock the night after WrestleMania X-Seven to form the Two-Man Power Trip with Stone Cold Steve Austin, entering as he had to a thunderous pop before the treacherous hip swivel.
The same had occurred on the November 6th Monday Night Raw. There, he revealed himself as the mastermind behind 'The Rattlesnake's brutal hit-and-run attack a year earlier. He foreshadowed this earlier in the night by dropping a cold and calculated "DTA" on Austin in a backstage vignette, but the clue was missed because he'd gotten so incredibly over as a babyface.
That Triple H was was responsible for the epic January 2002 pop. By then, the present day version simply couldn't live up to the legacy.