10 Wrestlers Triple H's WWE Has Totally FUMBLED

The last few years have been a massively successful period for World Wrestling Entertainment. And that's largely down to many of the talents taking bumps in-between the ropes being booked and presented refreshingly well in the time since Triple H made himself comfy in the creative seat.

That's not to say that absolutely every performer has excelled under 'Papa H's watch, though.

For every 'American Nightmare' and 'Mami' success story, there have also been seriously disappointing NXT call-ups, utterly wasted main event players, and other fantastic main roster characters that were well and truly fumbled since the summer of 2022.

In some of these cases, the wrestlers involved were actually enjoying a better time on-screen under the WWE banner back when that terrible ol' billionaire was still calling the shots. While others initially seemed like the sort of workers who would flourish with 'The Game' in charge, but have ultimately struggled to make any sort of impact with the time and creative they've been given.

So, with a nod to the folks over at r/SquaredCircle, whose thread inspired this very list you're reading, it's time to look at the performers WWE have frustratingly mishandled during this 'Paul Levesque Era'.

A performer who once seemed like a readymade top talent when he first popped up in NXT back in 2020, Karrion Kross was a solid, occasionally intimidating force that you could easily see fitting right in on WWE's main roster.

His entrance was that perfect combination of silly and dramatic, he definitely had the intensity box ticked, and could hold his own in-between the ropes, but then the wheels well and truly fell off after being called up in 2021 and dressed up like a bondage gladiator. Kross was released before the end of that year. However, he soon became one of the first names Trips opted to bring back to the company when he became the new creative 'King of Kings'.

Rather than finally getting the chance to unleash a version of Karrion Kross similar to the one seen wrecking his way through the NXT roster, though, Trips just slotted him in as an awkward third wheel during the Roman Reigns/Drew McIntyre program. The perennially gurning star's spin-off feud with the Scotsman then did little for either man in the coming weeks, and it wasn't long before he settled into the role of jobber villain in the midcard.

Whether flanked just by Scarlett or his Final Testament faction, the end result has still been the same: an unmemorable loser of a character not a single soul gives a damn about.

Fumbled both in the McMahon and Levesque eras. Impressive stuff.