Every WWE Backlash World Title Match Ranked From Worst To Best
12. Triple H Vs Hulk Hogan (2002)
Stripped of the red-and-yellow tinted glasses worn by a fanbase aching for a return to the excitement of the Attitude Era, the WWE Title match pitting Triple H against unlikely challenger Hulk Hogan is a laborious affair.
The two had both proven to be masters of particular elements of the craft at previous checkpoints in their career, but April 2002 was long past the peaks of both.
Triple H had returned from his damaging 2001 quadricep injury with a physique as hyper-inflated as his ego, and had struggled to regain form in middling encounters with Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho and others.
Meanwhile, despite drawing thunderous responses from crowds drunk on 'member berries, Hogan was nearing 50 and unable to energetically sell for lengthy portions as he had done so successfully in the 1980s and early 90s.
Despite a crowd pleasing victory for 'The Hulkster' (after interference against both parties from Chris Jericho and The Undertaker), it was a dreary match that foreshadowed the critical and commercial disaster his brief reunion with the title would be. Fittingly, he would wear the title during the company's wholesale change from WWF to WWE, becoming the final man to hold a championship he helped launch into the mainstream.