10 WWE Wrestlers That Went From The Top To The Bottom Then Back Again
9. Triple H
Much is made of Triple H's 1996 burial following the actions of himself, Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall on the latter pair's final night with the company, but it's as much to do with what he lost than what he had to endure.
Revisit the year and things aren't that bad. He's back on pay-per-view by October (the Curtain Call was May), Intercontinental Champion a night after that and bouncing from story to story between then and the hug being realised in storylines courtesy of D-Generation X airing it on Raw in 1997.
But they were ready to make him 'The Game' long before he'd learned how to properly play. The King Of The Ring may have given him his dream series with backstage bestie Shawn Michaels had the pair managed to politic Vader out of the way, with the rehab job set to make up for his WrestleMania XII humiliation designed to be the push he'd have to sit on missing out on for another three years.
It was all a blessing in disguise - he was as ready for the second attempt as he wasn't for the first.