13 Triple H WWE Projects That Failed Miserably

3. Batista's 2014 Comeback

In late 2013, Triple H called up his old buddy Batista and sold him on making a WWE comeback. He told him how much the crowd would go wild for it, promising that it would involve a Royal Rumble win and then a WWE Title victory at WrestleMania 30. After that, they could then do the classic Triple H versus Batista bout for a new generation. The whole journey would be this hero coming in and smashing The Authority. But the project was killed before it had barely took its first breaths. Batista came in and won the rumble, but the reaction of the live crowd was brutal. It was so bad that even the mainstream press covered it. WWE had little choice but to change plans, recasting Bastista as a heel and having him aligned with Triple H. Hunter's grand vision was shot, and he really should have known better when first pitching it.