5 Great Wrestlers Who Had A Bad Year

#2 Triple H - 2003

Triple H killed what was left of WCW

Triple H finally stepped out of Shawn Michael's shadow in 1999, and solidified himself as one of the best in the world in 2000, and continued this pattern throughout 2001 (until his injury) and 2002.

Things slowed down, way down, for The Game in 2003. Triple H spent much of the year dealing with various minor and nagging injuries, and refusing to take time off to deal with them. Instead, he made the questionable decision to keep the World Heavyweight Championship for the majority of the year, despite being hardly mobile in the ring.

Not only did these various injuries hamper Triple H's performances, but he literately spent the entire year destroying what remained of WCW. Triple H spent the entire of 2003 feuding with former WCW stars. He started the year off in an interminable feud with Scott Steiner, which provided us with the two worst matches of the year (Royal Rumble, No Way Out).

He then moved onto Booker T. While Booker was one of the most, if not the most deserving superstar on RAW to be the World Heavyweight Champions, Triple H used his creative stroke to scrap plans for Booker to defeat him at WrestleMania, with instead The Game defeating him in a barely passable match, with a horrible ending of Booker laying lifeless in the ring for 20 seconds after a Pedigree, and then being covered.

When Triple H was finished with the Book, he feuded with his good buddy Kevin Nash. The had a poor match at Judgement Day and one of the worst Hell in A Cell matches ever at Bad Blood. Triple H spent the remained of the year feuding with Goldberg. Goldberg managed to squeeze a couple decent matches out of the injured Triple H, before The Game decided to end Goldberg's three month Championship reign, because I guess the previous 9 months Triple H had held the big gold belt, wasn't enough time.

The only worthy match of the year contender Triple H over the entire year, occurred on the very last episode of RAW in 2003, battling to a draw with Shawn Michaels in a stunning match. The reopened feud with Shawn Michaels helped bring Triple H back to having excellent match in 2004.