10 WWE Mega-Pushes Fans Hated BEFORE Roman Reigns & John Cena
5. Triple H
There's been all sorts of takes on Triple H either side of the recent 25th Anniversary celebration but here's a bit of objectivity in amongst some opinions - he wasn't it, chief.
With absolutely nobody else around in the wasteland that was WWE's post-Attitude Era identity crisis output between 2002 and 2005, he was a memory of a once-beloved product more than the centrepieces of one folk still cared about.
Vince McMahon, through bias or creative blindness or panic or whatever f*ck it was couldn't do what Tony Hayers was brave enough to when Alan Partridge begged him not to take his chat away. Hunter was the never-commissioned second series of Knowing Me, Knowing You. With him as longstanding steward of Raw, ratings started badly and they got worse.
He had a history of having bad programmes by the time he actually got Batista over in 2005, so much so that some dared to question his peerless 2000 period. Gaining control of the narrative as the decade wore on appeared to be as important to 'The Game' then as pretending to be the best in the business had been years earlier.