Ranking Who Was Really The Man In Wrestling Every Year 1990-2020
21. 2000 - Triple H
It's closer than even the faint praise suggests - his critics enjoy pointing out that Triple H was only ever not the B+ Player he denies himself to be for one calendar year - but even The Rock's record of most 10,000+ houses drawn in a single year cannot deny the Game's polymath brilliance.
Triple H was the perfect nemesis to the Rock - you can't draw gates like that with Billy Gunn or the British Bulldog - and he entered incredible in-ring performances that, in tonal range, were Gary Strydom flexes. Triple H ascended to Ace status in a fiercely competitive era with blood-soaked wars against Cactus Jack and precision-balanced TV mini-triumphs with Taka Michinoku.
When he finally rose to the main event, he elevated all around him to it.