The Worst Year Of Triple H's WWE Career

Yes. Right. There are no twists here, he always wins.

Triple H didn't quite become his own boss around 2010, but semi-retirement after a billion title reigns in the 2000s came with at least being his own team leader. Which is worse, as anybody who's ever had a team leader or supervisor will know. Those people are worse. They're the ones that get paid a nominal amount more per hour to take far more responsibility than is worth it, and typically "get" to hold a big set of keys or a headset. Or both, in Hunter's case. He started making television towns when Dad had better things to do, and was routinely spending more time at Gorilla than between the ropes. All of that looks - with hindsight - to have been for the good of his own future.

Clocking that John Laurinaitis had done an objectively bad job furnishing the roster with tomorrow's next big stars, 'The Game' used himself sparingly as a top babyface while decking dorks as a way to illustrate the point in front of the camera. This begat a new role in talent development which begat NXT which begat Vince McMahon taking every carefully constructed character from about 2014 onwards and crushing them within weeks of their Raw debut.

So we're here to talk about 2014, right? The year the Batista push bombed. The year Paige and Emma had the best WWE women's match ever at that point in February and drowning by December? The year Roman Reigns first started getting booed. Horrendous 12 months for 'The Game, no?

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