10 World Champions Who Bombed TWICE
7. Triple H
In WWE Network specials about the Ruthless Aggression era, Triple H was presented as the guy holding the fort down following the sudden departures of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock and all the mainstream fad fans had left the product behind.
How do you spell Triple H again? L-O-L?
'The Game' was indeed the top star presiding over Raw and SmackDown in the glum and grim post-2001 commercial and creative drop-off, but the drop-off doesn't exactly speak to a megastar taking the industry to great new heights does it?
As WWE chased away its own relevancy, so too did Hunter to those that had gamely stuck with a product rapidly becoming a parody of itself. Deathly dull feuds and matches came one after another after another, and with those came multiple runs with the World Championship so he could look like Ric Flair even if he was always in his shadow.
Batista got very over in a very hot, popular and well-received WrestleMania story. The rest belongs in the bin.