10 Times WWE Broke Your Heart And Didn’t Even Care
4. BLOODY HELL
Nicknamed 'Satan's Prison' by the ever-hyperbolic Jim Ross, the Elimination Chamber had locked Triple H into one of his gutsier performances approximately 10 months earlier after Rob Van Dam smashed his shin across 'The Game's throat in a Five Star Frog Splash gone wrong.
It was an injury before the SummerSlam 2003 chamber sequel that should have ruled him out the contest altogether, or at very least seen him do the job in the first five minutes. Instead, he sat out the mauling Bill Goldberg dished out to virtually the entire field before sneaking in with a sledgehammer to retain his title in a pathetically transparent political power play.
Taking a superkick from Shawn Michaels upon exiting the pod, Triple H lay down dead as Big Bill stormed through the other challengers in what was comfortably the one time WWE actually got his character right during its first run.
With only 'The Game' left to pulverise, he instead absorbed a weapon shot to the head from a spear attempt and was put down to extend an already-tepid series one more month. If Goldberg wasn't already mentally bidding farewell to the company, this night presumably kickstarted his fatal malaise.