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#3 Cody Rhodes
While a few of the wrestlers that I have chosen for this list have outright publicly mentioned Triple H as being the reason they never achieved their full potential in WWE, Cody Rhodes has never mentioned The Game by name for this matter but has at least alluded to it.
Cody has mentioned in several interviews since leaving WWE in 2016 that they, WWE higher ups, had plenty of opportunities to pull the trigger on him as a big star, but didn't. While he didn't mention any of them by name, it is safe to assume that Triple H is one of them. There were reports back in 2015 that it was Triple H who denied Cody's request to drop the Stardust character, and of course, both men have been taking pretty big promotional jabs at each other with Triple H at the Hall of Fame, and Cody at All Elite Wrestling's Double or Nothing.
Considering what Cody has accomplished since he left WWE and what he is about to accomplish with AEW, one would assume WWE and Triple H really missed the boat with The American Nightmare.
Cody's father, the 'American Dream' Dusty Rhodes, was a WWE legend who also took up many managerial roles within the company. Despite being in an influential position, the fact that Dusty could really not do much to push Cody's prospects just goes to show Triple H's hold on the company.
