Top 5 Triple H moments in WWE's history 

2. Rebooting DX After WrestleMania 14, 1998

Triple H charted a course for the top when he took over DX.

WrestleMania 14 saw a changing of the guard as Stone Cold Steve Austin not only pinned Shawn Michaels to win his first WWE Championship but sent HBK packing into what would ultimately be a four-year retirement. With Michaels out, there was a greater weight on not only Austin, but other emerging top talents to carry the company.

Triple H had been Michaels’s second in command in DX, and it wouldn’t have been altogether unreasonable for the stable to have called it a day at that moment. Instead, Triple H doubled down on the group, announcing he was taking the reins in an impassioned promo, and introducing X-Pac as a new recruit.

This moment asserted that DX was there to stay and that as its new leader, Triple H was only moving up the card. While losing Michaels was certainly a blow to WWE programming, this was a defining moment for the Attitude Era as Triple H stepped up to fill his real-life friend’s void.