Losing The Rock wouldn't have appeared too damaging to the WWF when they first evaluated the situation. After all, they still had Triple H, the man who had became widely regarded as the best in the business during a successful 2000 main event run. This is when bad fortune conspires against Vince McMahon. A month after losing The Rock to Hollywood, the WWF lost Triple H to a year long quad tear injury. There was still Steve Austin, but we'll comment more on him later in this feature! Basically the company had lost their top two guys in the space of a month. Austin had been absent for most of 2000, it was the young Rock and Hunter who had been holding the fort. Now both were gone. Fans were suddenly left with a WWF product which was a shadow of the presentation they'd been watching a year earlier. By the time Triple H returned in January 20002, many of the WWF's boom period audience were gone.
