>>7521898I'm surprised zoomers don't know this
Shawn and Hunter literally had a falling out in 2001 because of it. Shawn was going to be at Mania 17, passed out on pills backstage, got sent home, HHH didn't back Shawn and Shawn says "So you think you're better than me now, huh? Is that what it's about?"
Triple H had surpassed Shawn as a star. Not as a worker but as a star and in Vince's pecking order. Shawn didn't want to come back until 2002 when he got his shit together after Nash had a convo with him, told him he needed to quit that shit or else his son wouldn't have a dad anymore.