10 WWE Careers That Were Transformed In One Year
6. Triple H - 2000
Triple H was far from a one-year-wonder in his quarter of a century career, no matter how cynical your writer or others reviewing his life's work may get during periods of particular praise for the 'Cerebral Assassin'.
But he was only 'The Game' in 2000.
It's just another piece from the puzzle that is his extremely complex legacy. He worked his way to over-pushed upper midcarder in 1999, but the following 12 months saw him walk, talk and wrestle like the main eventer he'd obviously always been in his head. He may have managed to carry that form on had he not be struck down by the quadricep injury in May 2001, but the guy that returned in 2002 wasn't it to such a degree that his own security helped tank a product for a generation of fans that never came back.
He's never deserved all the plaudits heaped upon him by a company he's had a hand on the wheel of for well over a decade, and if anything, the perpetual praise undermined the actual good he did in the role. At his commercial and critically acclaimed peak, "That Damn Good" was an understatement.