15 Most memorable moments in the history of Monday Night Raw

13: Triple H takes over DX

Triple H took over DX after Shawn Michaels had to retire temporarily following a career-threatening back injury.

30th March, 1998 was a very important date in Triple H’s career. Shawn Michaels had just lost to Stone Cold Steve Austin at Wrestlemania 15 before going on hiatus due to injury.

Triple H came out on Raw accompanied by Chyna and the fired up HHH called out Michaels for failing to win at ‘Mania and for failing DX. Triple H declared himself as the leader of a new DX army before introducing the new members. The first person out was X-Pac who was back in the WWE after a stint at WCW as Syxx.

This happened at the height of the Monday Night Wars between WWE and WCW and Vince let the returning X-Pac have a free go at the live mic with a chance to clear out all his grievances about WCW.X-Pac called out the Eric Bischoff, Hulk Hogan and others in WCW live on international television for the way he’d been treated in his last few days with that company.

He followed this by saying that Triple H had called him on the phone and asked for his help to reform a new version of DX, even going far as saying that Kevin Nash and Scott Hall would have joined them if they hadn’t been contractually obligated to WCW.

The question on everyone’s mind that night was whether Triple H would be able to carry DX without Shawn Michaels there. As wrestling history has taught us, the answer was a resounding yes.