 Friendships are tantamount to glass – both are solid, reflective and, depending on inherent strength, as hard or brittle as one forges them. And in most instances, when a crack appears in either … well, it’s almost certain that they’re going to break.
What, then, does that say about the events of July 29, 2002? When, as Raw unfolded inside North Carolina’s Greensboro Coliseum Complex, Shawn Michaels’ face was smashed into a car windshield by a mysterious assailant? When HBK’s enigmatic parking lot attacker was revealed to be his closest friend, Triple H? At the very least, it breaks through the glass ceiling as No. 1 in WWE.com’s List This!: Hardest Hitting Betrayals.
Perhaps Michaels should have seen it coming, and more than just in the literal sense; inside a Raw ring only seven days prior, The Game had Pedigreed HBK – along with any possibility of a proposed D-Generation X reunion. His reason, as he explained the following week, was to provide “a cold, hard slap on the face of reality” to the friend who had just returned from a broken back that forced him out of DX leadership and into a four-year retirement. “The Game,” as Triple H told Michaels, “has passed you by.”
Michaels’ response to set pride aside and follow Triple H’s lead would not be forthcoming that evening; instead, visibly shaken Superstars – The Cerebral Assassin among them – watched helplessly as HBK, his face crimsoned by particles of broken windshield, was carted off in an ambulance. An incensed Triple H swore that he would weed out the party responsible for the heinous ambush. And our fans, perhaps wanting too much to believe him, took The Game at his word.
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This week Triple H stays at the #1 position of the Power 25. 