You could argue that Triple H took the biggest L since Bischoff and Heyman in 2001.
At the peak NXT was the 2nd biggest promotion (it was under WWE still but you get what I’m saying) in the United States, they poached cats from NJPW, ROH, and Impact and for about 5 years it was nothing but heat, and then here comes AEW and you know wrestling fans and fans in pop culture period are gonna flock to the shiny new toy and that’s exactly what happened, NXT was never able to fully recover from going head to head with AEW, the last days of 1.0 were depressing as hell and to punish Triple H for not putting AEW in the grave, they straight up deebo’d his spot, dropped the black & gold, bushed the metal music, bushed the Cruiserweight division, made the women’s division more about t*ts & ass, and just all around made it as opposite of 1.0 as it could be, then they fire most of the talent and personnel that made NXT 1.0 hot and to make matters worse, they had Vince’s handpicked new star kick a foam yellow X and all Trips could do is sit there and lick his wounds.
A truly monumental L.