25 Great Wrestlers That EVERYBODY Turned Against
1. Triple H
If you stick around long enough in pro wrestling, you go through every possible relationship with the pro wrestling audience, and having put 30 years into carefully navigating his way to the top spot in the entire game, Triple H knows all about it.
Indifference best defined how fans felt about 'The Game' in the period before Chyna arrived and his real-life relationship with Shawn Michaels moved on screen, but the love and adoration he gained towards the end of the 1990s and into the year 2000 specifically was something he'd never get back as soon as injuries - and rumours of relentless politicking - piled up.
Never again the wrestler he was at his peak from 2002 through to his retirement, the highs were typically rule-proving exceptions, and his "reign of terror" in the first half of the 2000s in particular left scars with those that endured it. Perceptions shifted somewhat when he booked a golden era of NXT in the mid-2010s as a direct contrast to the main roster product it was supposed to facilitate, but the fruit basket years frittered away when AEW launched as the true alternative to WWE rather than the in-house one.
When he'd never been closer to the outhouse, he was suddenly in the penthouse after Vince McMahon resigned in disgrace, and has done everything - once again to the chagrin of those that loathe him - to let everybody know just how vital he's been to WWE's remarkable rejuvenation.