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As a result of an actual injury at the New Year’s Revolution PPV, Triple H recently underwent surgery to reattach a tendon on his knee. The surgery will keep The Game out of the ring for 4-6 months, meaning he definitely won’t be around for WrestleMania in April.

All I can say is, thank goodness. Sure, it’s easy to nitpick at a wrestler who’s been overpushed as much as the Cerebral Assassin, but let’s be honest: the whole DX Reunion thing has been a bust. And while it may be the fault of bad booking, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s been a big, giant headache that requires the use of Fioricet or something similarly potent.

After all, DX’s first big feud that lasted WAY too long was with - the Spirit Squad? The annoying Team of Five simply hadn’t been built up nearly enough to merit such a long-standing feud with Michaels and Helmsley, and really robbed heat from DX more than it built up the Squad members.

Launching off that into a feud with Team Rated-RKO was a legit feud that was finally launching Michael and Helmsley back into the legit ranks, but frankly the feud’s credibility was a stretch after such a long feud with the McMahon Family and the Spirit Squad. Linking Squad holdover Kenny Dykstra to the feud didn’t help.

Frankly, the main reason the DX reunion doesn’t work anymore is that while Michaels and Helmsley are the biggest stars to emerge from the original DX faction, the original DX had a lot more to offer than just Michaels and Helmsley. Now, I’m not saying that WWE should have found a way to reunite the two DX vets with Road Dogg, X-Pac, Mister Ass and Chyna; that would only guarantee the DX reunion a failure.

What I am saying is, reforming DX should be as much about promoting promising new talent as it is about re-establishing the careers of the aging Michaels and Helmsley. I mean, sure, there’d have to be some heel-face turns to make it happen, but wouldn’t a new DX have been much more interesting if it had Michaels and Helmsley at the head of a larger group of young talent who are the next generation of WWE superstars?

Just going off the available WWE roster, here’s my Dream DX team: Shawn Michael, Triple H, Johnny Nitro, Melina, Joey Mercury and Carlito. Sure, one could maybe put together an even better roster if one were to scalp more talent from SmackDown and ECW, but with a core like this, it would lend legitimacy to the younger talent and make for more interesting booking.

In the final analysis, though, I think moving DX forward requires waiting until The Game returns, and then turning Triple-H heel. Helmsley has always worked better as the WWE’s hardcore heel, and if one were to play up the reunion of Michaels and Helmsley, then have Triple-H betray him, you could have that be the catalyst for a DX split where Michaels headlines a “good” DX faction, while Helmsley headlines a “heel” DX faction, and thus promote even more young talent.

If that were the case, here’s my suggested DX factions, based off current roster talent:

DX-Face:

Shawn Michaels
Cryme Tyme
Carlito
Mickie James
Charlie Haas

DX-Heel

Triple-H
Mercury, Nitro and Melina (MNM)
Shelton Benjamin
Kenny Dykstra