The Worst Year Of Triple H's WWE Career
Triple H has lived a charmed life, regardless of all the stories of how he was buried for a "year" after the Curtain Call, or how tough it was to be the guy getting pushed while dating the bosses daughter, especially when the boss decided you couldn't even be together anymore, or...
Well, that's it, isn't it? Those are the horror stories. Two of them. And let's unpick those for just a second, to try and work out which best fits the titular brief of "worst of his career".
The Kliq said goodbye to one another following that steel cage main event at Madison Square Garden in May 1996, and only lowly midcarder Hunter Hearst Helmsley was there to take the rap afterwards. Shame too, because was about to win the King Of The Ring and he had to wait until 1997's tournament to receive his cape and crown. What a hellish year for him afterwards - he lost on television repeatedly, if you even saw him at all! The whole year! "Platefuls of sh*t" his future father-in-law told him he'd have to swallow. 12 miserable months. He definitely didn't appear in a 15 minute match with Stone Cold Steve Austin at October's Buried Alive, or win the Intercontinental Title the very next night on Raw, or defend it at December's It's Time, or January's Royal Rumble, or work WrestleMania against Goldust, or...
And as for the Stephanie McMahon situation, forget about it pal. That rocket-strapping he received in 1999 was grounded by 2001. Vince had long decided enough was enough, and his main event aspirations had as much chance of blossoming as their star-crossed love. No belts for 'The Game' because he played and lost, pal. Must have really sucked to be Triple H in 2000, huh? Like Romeo & Juliet but the fatalities were worse because people dying ain't got sh*t on the demise of work-based relationships and title runs.
Smooth sailing once he escaped those stormy waters though, right?
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