WWE betrayals This is a list from WWE . com with the top 10 betrayals in history , as Steve Austin once said DTA . HHH & HBK . 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 . On August 5 , Triple H ' s investigation was well underway as Raw headed into Maryland , and the suspects were many - - most notably , Chris Jericho and Big Show . But after numerous threats of sledgehammered retribution , a satellite feed enabled a bruised and battered Shawn Michaels to address The Cerebral Assassin and our fans from the TitanTron . And that ' s when the truth , like glass , became transparent . " It was you , " a solemn Michaels told The Game , citing his evidence from enhanced parking lot surveillance footage . His head bowed down , Triple H remained quiet for a seeming eternity until , with a malevolent smile , he looked up and answered , " You ' re damn right it was me , Shawn . " The Cerebral Assassin ' s reasoning - - again , like glass - - was flawed . He wanted to prove to HBK that after years out of the ring , he was now " weak and vulnerable , " and that he could have crippled him in the parking lot if he so desired . What The Game hadn ' t planned on was that his betrayal would ultimately rekindle the broken heart of the " Heartbreak Kid , " who would challenge - - and ultimately defeat - - his DX co - founder to a Street Fight at SummerSlam . Nearly four years would pass since HBK ' s face impacted against that windshield . And during that time , these once - closest of friends would take their shattered camaraderie to unprecedented levels of competitive ring aggression . Though each Superstar would lay claim to victory in their multiple encounters , in many ways the biggest losers of these epic confrontations were those in the WWE Universe , who longed greatly for a return to D - Generation X glory . Thankfully , Shawn Michaels and Triple H would agree ; since picking up the shards of their broken friendship in the summer of 2006 , the DX duo has electrified our fans , both in solo ring action and in tandem efforts . As for The Game ' s act of betrayal in 2002 , one could certainly question whether it could ever truly be forgotten by either man . However , it could also be argued that it eventually forged an alliance far stronger than glass … or friendship .