10 Wrestlers Who Lost Touch With Humanity
9. Triple H
Triple H had already misread the room for the first half of the 2000s, working endlessly disruptive programmes with the likes of Rob Van Dam, Kane, Booker T and others that WWE should have been using as star-builders. But at least all that sh*t was fake.
Fake as the breasts he used to celebrate in his DX pomp, Hunter's vanity run with the belt never resonated as real because the creative disappeared so far up his flue that audiences couldn't see a good story for his breakfast getting in the way. The boss' son-in-law was in charge of his own stuff and was just about the only name left from a monied era that already felt long gone. It was too easy for him, and with no struggle, there was no point.
It was made even worse when - via a reunion with Shawn Michaels covered elsewhere in this article - his real life became on-screen canon. He feuded with Randy Orton because 'The Legend Killer' posed a threat to the billionaire McMahon empire. WWE, for a WrestleMania main event, asked a predominantly working class audience to sympathise with a family of tycoons.
It couldn't ever work and they were all stupid to think it might.
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