10 Worst Wrestling World Title Reigns Ever
3. Triple H - December 15, 2002 To September 21, 2003
A World Champion - a good World Champion - should elevate those underneath him in the build to and thrust of the match.
A good World Champion should have the ability to work two wrestlers on consecutive pay-per-views that couldn't draw as a dynamic between themselves. That's the test. The Champ is the main event almost irrespective of who is in the opposite corner.
Katsuyori Shibata Vs. Bad Luck Fale wasn't a main event, as an example, but Kazuchika Okada headlined consecutive big NJPW shows with both as part of his legendary fourth reign with the IWGP Heavyweight Title. On the night, he convinced the crowd that the switch was imminent without sacrificing his own invincible aura. That he did this every night convinced NJPW fans to accept even the most lowly of challengers, like Fale.
Triple H attempted to play this role between 2002 and 2004. He failed dismally at it; rather than get his opponents over in defeat, he ruthlessly exposed their limitations or treated them so dreadfully that the audience lost faith in what became an endless and infuriating paradox: Triple H haemorrhaged viewers on top, but sold it as a cyclical, just-the-nature-of-the-business deal that required a worker of his pedigree to shore up.
Kevin Nash: "Here are three paydays old friend."
Booker: took 23 seconds to be pinned at WrestleMania 23, which, yeah, f*ck Triple H.
Goldberg: went almost twice as long as RVD lost to win the title, as HHH laughed at the irony that word had taken on.