10 WWE Superstars Who Recovered From Disgrace
7. Triple H
There are those within this list for whom 'disgrace' relates mostly to their outside-the-ring exploits. Lost bouts with drugs, alcohol, sleaze and scandal that looked set to remove them from warm retrospective video packages and token Hall Of Fame gestures in later life. Triple H - the man most likely to reign over all of WWE when (if?) Vince McMahon swaggers off this mortal coil - committed his biggest crime slap bang in the middle of the ring.
Despite apparently gaining permission from Vince McMahon to share their final moments in WWE together at the climax of Shawn Michaels' Madison Square Garden main event with Kevin 'Diesel' Nash in May 1996, Kliq members Michaels, Nash, Scott Hall and Triple H met scorn when they returned backstage.
Wrestlers old and new were livid at the contravention of kayfabe, with McMahon forced into going back on his original assurances in order to remove the chance of a locker room revolt. Triple H was infamously instructed to "eat sh*t and learn to like the taste of it" for the remainder of the year, with few predicting a significant recovery in the aftermath. It was perhaps that period that convinced him to make Vince McMahon's backend a staple of his diet for the next decade.