Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969) is an
American
professional
wrestler and
actor, better known by his
ring name Triple H, an
abbreviation of his former ring name,
Hunter Hearst
Helmsley. He is currently signed with
World Wrestling Entertainment
(WWE) and wrestles on its
Raw brand.
Before joining WWE, Levesque began his wrestling career with
World Championship
Wrestling (WCW) in 1993, wrestling under the ring name Terra
Ryzing and later as Jean-Paul Lévesque. Levesque joined the World
Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1995 with the on-screen persona of
wealthy sophisticate Hunter Hearst Helmsley. He later changed his
name to Triple H and adopted an alternative image in the stable
D-Generation X (DX). After the
dissolution of DX, Triple H was
pushed as a main
event wrestler, winning several singles championships. As part of a
storyline, Triple H married
Stephanie
McMahon, who later became his real-life spouse. In 2003, Triple
H formed another stable known as
Evolution, and in 2006,
briefly reformed DX with
Shawn
Michaels and once again reformed DX in 2009.
Overall, Levesque is a thirteen-time
World
Champion having won the
WWE
Championship eight times, and the
World Heavyweight
Championship five times (Triple H is also recognized as the
first World Heavyweight Champion under WWE's lineage). In addition,
Levesque won the
1997 King of the
Ring, the
2002 Royal Rumble,
and was the second
Grand Slam
Championship winner.
Outside wrestling, Levesque has made numerous guest appearances in
film and on
television.
Wrestling career
Early career
Levesque
was born in Nashua, New
Hampshire
. In his youth, he was a fan of professional
wrestling and his favorite wrestler was
Ric
Flair. Levesque became aware of
bodybuilding at the age of fourteen; after
graduating from high school in 1987, Levesque entered several
bodybuilding competitions. He was crowned Teenage Mr. New Hampshire
at the age of nineteen. During this time, he met
Ted Arcidi and began to consider a career in
professional wrestling.
Levesque enrolled at
Killer
Kowalski's wrestling school in 1992 after it was recommended to
him by Arcidi. He joined the Independent Wrestling Federation
(IWF), which used trainees from Kowalski's school in their
promotion. Here, he became the IWF Heavyweight Champion and started
using the name Terra Ryzing.
World Championship Wrestling
In early 1994, Levesque signed a one year contract with
World Championship Wrestling
(WCW). In his first televised match, He wrestled as a
villain and defeated
Brian Armstrong. He continued using the
name Terra Ryzing until mid-1994, when he was renamed Jean-Paul
Lévesque. This
gimmick referred to
his surname's French origins and he was asked to speak with a
French accent, as he could not speak French. During this time, he
began using his finishing maneveur, the
Pedigree.
Levesque had a brief storyline
feud with
Alex Wright that ended at
Starrcade 1994 with Wright
pinning him. Between late 1994
and early 1995, Levesque briefly teamed with
Lord Steven Regal, whose snobby British
persona was a good match with his similar persona. The team was
short-lived, however, as Lévesque left for the
World Wrestling Federation
(WWF) in January 1995 after WCW turned down his request to be
pushed as a singles competitor.
World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment
The Connecticut Blueblood (1995–1997)
As a
continuation of his gimmick in WCW, Levesque started his WWF career
as the "Connecticut
Blueblood" Hunter Hearst
Helmsley. Levesque appeared in taped
vignettes, in which
he talked about how to use proper etiquette, up until his wrestling
debut on the April 30, 1995 episode of
WWF Wrestling Challenge.
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Hunter Hearst Helmsley in 1996.
Although he was heavily pushed in the first few months after his
debut, Levesque's career stalled during 1996, starting off with
being mired in a feud with
Duke "The
Dumpster" Droese following a loss in the Free For All at the
1996 Royal Rumble. Up until that
event, his
angle included
appearing on television each week with a different female valet.
Sable was his valet at
WrestleMania XII, and after his loss to
Ultimate Warrior, as part of the
storyline, he took his aggressions out on her. The debuting
Marc Mero came to her rescue, starting a
feud between the two wrestlers.
On May 28, 1996, Helmsley appeared on
WWF Superstars against
Marty Garner. When Levesque attempted
to perform the
Pedigree, Garner mistook the maneuver for a
double underhook
suplex and tried to jump up with the move, causing him to land
squarely on top of his head and suffer neck damage. Garner sued the
WWF, eventually settling out of court and later discussed the
incident in an appearance on
The Montel Williams
Show.

The MSG Incident.
Levesque was known backstage as one of the members of
The Kliq, a group of wrestlers including
Shawn Michaels,
Kevin
Nash,
Sean Waltman and
Scott Hall, who were known for influencing Vince
McMahon and the WWF creative team. He was scheduled to win the
1996 King of the Ring
tournament, but was demoted from championship contender to
"
jobber to the
stars" after the
Madison
Square Garden Incident, in which the Kliq broke character after
a match to say goodbye to the departing Nash and Hall. Despite the
punishment, Helmsley did have several successes following the MSG
Incident.
Mr. Perfect became his
manager and he won
the
WWF
Intercontinental Championship for the first time on October 21,
1996, defeating Marc Mero. When Mr. Perfect left the WWF, his
departure was explained to be a result of Helmsley turning his back
on his manager as soon as he won the Intercontinental Championship.
Levesque held the belt for nearly four months before
dropping it to
Rocky Maivia on the February 13, 1997
special edition of
Monday Night Raw, called
Thursday
Raw Thursday. For a very brief time, Helmsley was accompanied
by
Mr. Hughes, who was his storyline
bodyguard. After losing the Intercontinental title, he feuded with
Goldust, defeating him at
WrestleMania 13. During their feud,
Chyna debuted as his new bodyguard.
D-Generation X (1997–1999)
Helmsley's push resumed in 1997, when he won the
1997 King of the Ring tournament by
defeating
Mankind in the finals. Later
that year, Shawn Michaels, Helmsley, Chyna and
Rick Rude formed D-Generation X (DX). This stable
later became known for pushing the envelope, as Michaels and
Helmsley made risqué promos—spawning the catchphrase "Suck It",
using a "crotch chop" hand motion, and sarcastically deriding
Bret Hart and Canada. By that point,
Helmsley had fully dropped the "blueblood snob" gimmick, appearing
in T-shirts and leather. During this period, his ring name was
shortened to simply Triple H. Even after the DX versus
Hart Foundation storyline ended, Helmsley
continued to feud with the sole remaining member
Owen Hart over the
WWF European Championship. This
ended in a match between the two at
WrestleMania XIV, with the stipulation that
Chyna had to be handcuffed to then-Commissioner
Sgt. Slaughter.
Helmsley won after Chyna threw powder into Slaughter's eyes,
momentarily "blinding" him and allowing her to interfere in the
match.
After WrestleMania, Michaels was forced into temporary retirement
due to a
legitimate
back injury sustained at the
Royal
Rumble, with Triple H taking over the leadership position in
DX, claiming that his now-former associate had "dropped the ball".
He introduced the returning
X-Pac the
night after WrestleMania and joined forces with the
New Age Outlaws. As 1998 went along,
D-Generation X became more popular, turning the group from villains
to fan favorites. It was also during this time that Triple H began
a feud with the leader of the
Nation of Domination and rising WWF
villain,
The Rock. This storyline rivalry eventually
led to a feud over the Intercontinental Championship, which Triple
H won in a
ladder match at
SummerSlam. He did not hold the title
long, however, as he was sidelined with a legitimate knee injury.
When The Rock won the
WWF
Championship at
Survivor
Series, the rivalry between the two continued, as DX fought
The
Corporation stable, of which The Rock was the main star. Triple
H received a shot at the WWF Championship on the January 25, 1999
edition of
Raw in an
"I Quit"
match against The Rock, but the match ended when Triple H was
forced to quit or see his aide Chyna
chokeslammed by
Kane.
This began a new angle for Triple H, as Chyna betrayed him by
attacking him after the match and joining The Corporation.
As part of the storyline, at
WrestleMania XV, Triple H beat Kane with the
aid of Chyna, who was thought to have rejoined DX. Later on in the
night, he betrayed his long-time friend and fellow DX member X-Pac
by helping
Shane McMahon retain the
European Championship and joined The Corporation. After Triple H's
villain turn in early 1999, he moved away from his DX look, taping
his fists for matches, sporting new and shorter wrestling trunks,
and adopting a shorter hairstyle. Levesque's gimmick changed as he
fought to earn a WWF title shot. After numerous failed attempts at
winning the championship, Triple H and Mankind challenged WWF
Champion
Stone Cold Steve
Austin to a
Triple Threat match at
SummerSlam, which featured
Jesse "The Body" Ventura as the special guest
referee. Mankind won the match by pinning Austin, but the following
night on
Raw, Triple H defeated Mankind to win his first
WWF Championship.
Triple H dropped the WWF Championship to Vince McMahon on the
September 16, 1999 edition of
SmackDown! before regaining
it at
Unforgiven in a
Six-Pack Challenge that included Davey Boy Smith,
Big Show, Kane, The Rock, and Mankind. He
defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin at
No
Mercy before dropping the title to Big Show at
Survivor Series. Triple H then
continued his feud with Vince McMahon by marrying his daughter,
Stephanie McMahon. He then
defeated McMahon at
Armageddon. As a
result of the feud, an angle with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon
began which carried the WWF throughout the next seventeen months;
together they were known as the "
McMahon-Helmsley Faction".
McMahon-Helmsley Era (2000–2001)
Triple H signaling to the crowd
By January 2000, Triple H dubbed himself "The Game," implying that
he was at the top of the wrestling world, and was nicknamed "The
Cerebral Assassin" by
Jim Ross. On the
January 3 edition of Raw is War, Triple H defeated The Big Show to
win his third WWF championship.
Triple H feuded with
Mick Foley in early
2000 in a storyline that ended with a
Hell in a Cell match at
No Way Out that sent Foley into
retirement. Triple H pinned The Rock at
WrestleMania 2000 to retain the title, but
lost it at
Backlash to The Rock.
He regained it three weeks later, in an
Iron Man match at
Judgment Day, only to lose it back to
The Rock at
King of the Ring.
Hunter then entered a storyline feud with
Chris Jericho, which culminated in a
Last
Man Standing match at
Fully
Loaded.
A later storyline feud between Triple H and Steve Austin started
when it emerged that Triple H had paid off
Rikishi to run down Austin at
Survivor Series, causing him to take
a year off. In reality, Austin's previous neck injuries started
bothering him again, forcing him to have surgery. In 2000, Triple H
and Austin had a match at
Survivor Series that ended when
Triple H tried to trick Austin into coming into the parking lot to
run him over again, only to have Austin lift his car up with a
forklift and flip the car onto its roof 10 feet high. Triple H
returned a few weeks later and attacked Austin. The feud continued
into 2001 and ended in a
Three Stages of Hell match in
which Helmsley defeated Austin. In 2001, Triple H also feuded with
The Undertaker, who defeated him at
WrestleMania X-Seven. The night
after WrestleMania, Triple H interfered in a steel cage match
between Austin (who had just won the WWF Championship) and The Rock
where he joined forces with Austin and double teamed on The Rock,
forming a tag team called
The Two-Man
Power Trip. Triple H then defeated
Chris Jericho for his third Intercontinental
Championship on the April 5 edition of
SmackDown!, and won
it for a fourth time two weeks later by defeating
Jeff Hardy. Triple H then became a tag team
champion for the first time at
Backlash when he and Austin defeated
Kane and The Undertaker in a
winner-take-all tag match.
During the May 21, 2001 episode of
Raw, he suffered a
legitimate and career-threatening injury. In the night's main
event, he and Austin were defending the Tag Team Championship
against Chris Jericho and
Chris Benoit.
At one point, Jericho had Austin trapped in the
Walls of Jericho. Triple H ran-in to break
it up, but just as he did, he suffered a tear in his left
quadriceps muscle, causing it to
come completely off the bone. Despite his inability to place any
weight on his leg, Triple H was able to complete the match. He even
allowed Jericho to put him in the
Walls of Jericho, a move
that places considerable stress on the quadriceps. The tear
required an operation, which was performed by
orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews. This injury
brought an abrupt end to the McMahon-Helmsley Era, as the rigorous
rehabilitation process kept Triple
H out of action for over eight months, completely missing
The Invasion
storyline.
Return from injury (2002)
Triple H
returned to Raw as a fan favorite
on January 7, 2002 at Madison Square Garden
. He won the
Royal Rumble and received a
WWF Undisputed Championship match at
WrestleMania X8. At WrestleMania X8,
Triple H beat Chris Jericho for the Undisputed Championship. After
holding the title for a month, Helmsley dropped it to
Hulk Hogan at
Backlash. Triple H then became exclusive to
the
SmackDown!
roster due to the
WWF Draft
Lottery and continued to feud with Jericho, culminating in a
Hell in a Cell match at
Judgment
Day. On June 6, Triple H defeated Hogan in a Number One
Contenders match for the Undisputed Championship at the
King of the Ring against The
Undertaker but was unsuccessful.
In the interim, between the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania, the
McMahon-Helmsley Faction was brought to an official on-screen
conclusion. By the time he returned, Triple H's on-screen marriage
to Stephanie McMahon was on the rocks, so Stephanie faked a
pregnancy in order to get him back on her
side. When he learned that it was fake, he dumped her publicly on
Raw when they were supposed to renew their wedding vows. Stephanie
aligned with Jericho afterward, but she was forced to leave after
losing a Triple Threat match on
Raw the night after
WrestleMania when she was pinned by Triple H. The divorce, and thus
the storyline, was finalized at
Vengeance.
Meanwhile, Shawn Michaels had made his return to WWE and joined the
New World
Order (nWo). Michaels and Kevin Nash planned to bring Triple H
over to Raw in order to put him into the group. Vince McMahon,
however, disbanded the nWo following several backstage
complications and brought in
Eric
Bischoff as the Raw brand's new
General
manager. One of Bischoff's first intentions was to follow up on
the nWo's plan and bring Triple H over to the Raw roster. Triple H
did indeed go to the Raw brand, reuniting with Shawn Michaels, but
on July 22, he turned on Michaels by performing a
Pedigree on him
during what was supposed to be a DX reunion, becoming a villain
again. The following week, Triple H smashed Michaels' face into a
car window to prove that Michaels was "weak". These events led to
the beginning of a long storyline rivalry between the former
partners and an eventual "Unsanctioned Street Fight" at
SummerSlam, in which Michaels came out of
retirement to win. Afterwards, however, Triple H attacked him with
a
sledgehammer, and Michaels was
carried out of the ring.
Before September 2, 2002, WWE recognized only one champion for both
the Raw and SmackDown! brands. After SummerSlam, champion
Brock Lesnar became exclusive to SmackDown!,
leaving Raw without a champion. Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff
then awarded the
World Heavyweight
Championship to Triple H in the form of the old
WCW Championship belt.
Triple H retain his title against
Rob Van
Dam at
Unforgiven when Ric
Flair hit RVD with sledgehammer, and against Kane at
No Mercy in title unification match which
Triple won the IC Title and unified with his World Title, but he
eventually dropped the belt to Shawn Michaels in the first ever
Elimination Chamber match at
Survivor Series. He defeated
RVD for the title shot at
Armageddon with Michaels as special
referee. He regained the title from Michaels in a Three Stages of
Hell match at Armageddon.
Evolution (2003–2005)
In January 2003, Triple H formed a stable known as Evolution with
Ric Flair,
Randy
Orton, and
Batista. Triple H and
Ric Flair challenged RVD and Kane for the World Tag Team Titles,
but they lost the match. The group was pushed on Raw from 2003 to
2004. The height of their dominance occurred after
Armageddon when every member of Evolution
left the pay-per-view holding a title. Triple H held the
World Heavyweight
Championship for most of 2003, overcoming challenges from
Scott Steiner,
Booker T,
Kevin
Nash,
Kane,
Rob Van Dam and former
WCW star
Bill Goldberg. At the 2004 Royal Rumble,
Triple H and Shawn Michaels fought in a
Last
Man Standing match to a double
countout, so Triple H
retained the title. Triple H dropped the title to Chris Benoit at
WrestleMania XX, and he was unable
to reclaim the belt from Benoit in subsequent rematches, including
a rematch from WrestleMania between Triple H, Benoit, and Shawn
Michaels at
Backlash.
He then ended his feud with Michaels, defeating him in a Hell in a
Cell match at
Bad Blood. After
another failed attempt, losing to Benoit at
Vengeance, he focused on
Eugene, beating him at
SummerSlam. Triple H then regained the
title from former associate Randy Orton at
Unforgiven. Following a Triple Threat
World Heavyweight title defense against Benoit and
Edge on the November 29, 2004 episode of
Raw, the World Heavyweight Championship became vacant for
the first time. At
New
Year's Revolution, Triple H won the Elimination Chamber to
begin his tenth world title reign. At
WrestleMania 21, Triple H lost the
championship to Batista, and subsequently lost two rematches at
Backlash and
Vengeance. Following this, Triple H took
some time off from wrestling, suffering from minor neck
problems.
Triple H returned to Raw on October 3, 2005 as part of
WWE
Homecoming. He teamed with Flair to defeat
Chris Masters and
Carlito. After the match, Triple H turned
on Flair hitting him with a sledgehammer, sparking a feud between
the duo. Flair defeated Triple H in a
Steel cage match at
Taboo Tuesday for Flair's
Intercontinental
Championship. Subsequently, Triple H defeated Flair in a
non-title Last Man Standing match at
Survivor Series to end their
feud.
D-Generation X revival (2006–2007)

DX striking their signature pose
Although Triple H failed to win the
Royal Rumble match at
Royal Rumble, another championship
opportunity arose for Triple H in the
Road to WrestleMania
Tournament. He won the tournament, granting him a match for
the
WWE Championship at
WrestleMania 22. At WrestleMania, Triple H
and
John Cena fought in the main event for
the title, which Triple H lost via submission. Later that month at
Backlash, Triple H was involved in
another WWE Championship match, fighting Edge and Cena in a Triple
Threat match, where he lost again. In an act of frustration, a
bloodied Triple H used his sledgehammer to attack both Edge and
Cena and then performed a number of DX crotch chops. Triple H
unsuccessfully attempted to win the WWE title from Cena on numerous
occasions, blaming his shortcomings on Vince McMahon, which
eventually lead to a feud between the McMahons and Triple H.
Shawn Michaels returned on the June 12 edition of
Raw and
soon reunited with Triple H to reform D-Generation X, turning
Triple H into a fan favorite once again. DX defeated the
Spirit Squad at
Vengeance in a 5-on-2 handicap match. They
continued their feud with Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon and the
Spirit Squad for several weeks. They then defeated the Spirit Squad
again on the July 18, 2006 edition of
Saturday Night's Main Event
in a 5-on-2 Elimination match. They then again defeated the
McMahons at
SummerSlam,
withstanding the attack of several handpicked WWE superstars by
Vince McMahon. At
Unforgiven,
D-Generation X overcame the odds once again, defeating The McMahons
and
ECW World Champion Big Show in a Hell in a Cell match. During the
match, DX embarrassed Vince by shoving his face in between Big
Show's buttocks, and DX won when Triple H broke a sledgehammer over
the shoulders of Vince McMahon after Michaels performed
Sweet Chin Music on him.
At
Cyber Sunday during DX's feud
with
Rated-RKO, special guest referee Eric
Bischoff allowed the illegal use of a weapon to give Rated-RKO the
win. At
Survivor Series, DX
got their revenge when their team defeated Edge and Orton's team in
an Elimination Match. In January 2007, at
New Year's Revolution, DX and
Rated-RKO fought to a no-contest after Triple H suffered a
legitimate torn right quadriceps (similar to the one he suffered in
2001 but in the other leg) fifteen minutes into the match. Surgery
was successfully performed on January 9, 2007 by Dr. James
Andrews.
King of Kings (2007–2009)
Triple H made his return at
SummerSlam, where he defeated
King Booker. After his return, he won the
WWE Championship at
No Mercy after beating the newly named
Champion, Randy Orton, making Triple H an eleven-time world
champion. In the same event, Triple H also defeated
Umaga in his first title defense after Mr.
McMahon declared his already-scheduled bout with Umaga, a title
match. McMahon then announced, Orton would receive a title rematch
in a
Last
Man Standing match in the final match of the event, which Orton
won after an
RKO onto
the announcer's table, thus ending Triple H's sixth reign. Triple
H's title reign at No Mercy is the fourth shortest reign in WWE
history, only lasting through the duration of the event. In the Raw
Elimination Chamber at
No Way Out,
Triple H gained a WWE Championship match at
WrestleMania XXIV, by outlasting five
other men. However, at WrestleMania XXIV, Randy Orton retained
after punting Triple H and pinning John Cena following Triple H's
Pedigree on Cena. A month later, at
Backlash, Triple H won the title in a Fatal
Four-Way Elimination match against Orton, Cena, and
John "Bradshaw" Layfield, tying the record for
most WWE Championship reigns with The Rock. Triple H then retained
the title against Orton at
Judgment
Day in a Steel Cage match and again at
One Night Stand in a Last Man
Standing match. Orton suffered a legitimate
collarbone injury during the match, thus ending the
feud prematurely.
On June 23, 2008 edition of
Raw, Triple H was drafted to
the SmackDown brand as a part of the
2008
WWE Draft, in the process making the WWE Championship exclusive
to SmackDown. After several successful title defenses against Edge,
The Great Khali, and
Jeff Hardy, Triple H ultimately lost his title to
Edge at the
2008 Survivor
Series pay-per-view. He then engaged himself in a feud against
Vladimir Kozlov. After qualifying
for the
Elimination Chamber
match at the
No Way Out
pay-per-view, Triple H won the match to win his eighth WWE
Championship, surpassing the record originally set by The Rock at
seven reigns.
Feud with The Legacy (2009)
On the February 16, 2009 episode of
Raw, Triple H made an
appearance aiding
Stephanie and
Shane McMahon, after they were
attacked by Randy Orton. On the February 20 episode of
SmackDown, Triple H was
interviewed by
Jim Ross, in the interview,
footage was shown highlighting the events that occurred on the
February 16 episode of
Raw. Ross asked Triple H how he
felt seeing that footage, in response, he broke character (after 5
years of marriage) by admitting that
Vince
McMahon is his father-in-law, that Shane is his brother-in-law,
and that Stephanie is his wife, thus creating a rivalry between
Triple H and Orton. On the February 23 episode of
Raw,
Triple H confronted Orton, before attacking him,
Ted DiBiase, and
Cody Rhodes (a group known as
The Legacy) with a
sledgehammer and chasing them from the arena. Weeks later, it was
announced that Triple H would defend the WWE title against Orton at
WrestleMania XXV. At the event,
Triple H defeated Orton to retain the title.
During the
2009 WWE Draft, Triple H
was drafted from SmackDown to Raw; since he was the reigning WWE
Champion during this time, he brought the title to Raw due to draft
regulations. At
Backlash, Triple H
lost the WWE Championship to Randy Orton after The Legacy defeated
Triple H, Shane McMahon and Batista in a six-man tag team match.
Triple H was taken out on a stretcher, and did not return until the
June 8 episode of
Raw, when he confronted The Legacy. On
the August 17 episode of
Raw, Triple H reunited with Shawn
Michaels to reform DX, and defeated Legacy at
SummerSlam.
Acting career
Commercials
His commercial appearances include ads in May 2006 for
Miller Lite in which he debates "
Man Laws" with the likes of
Burt Reynolds,
Eddie
Griffin and
Jerome Bettis. That
same month, he also appeared in a commercial for
USA Network with
Anthony Michael Hall, which
cross-promoted
Raw and Hall's show,
The Dead Zone. Hall's
character, a psychic, touches Triple H while he lounges beside a
pool and has a vision of him falling asleep in the sun, and fellow
wrestler John Cena slapping Triple H's sunburned back and leaving a
handprint. He has also appeared in commercials for bodybuilding
supplements such as Stacker 2 and
YJ
Stinger. Levesque also appeared in a
Wendy's commercial holding up a Triple Classic
Burger calling it the "Triple H Burger".
Film
Levesque appeared in the movie,
Blade: Trinity, as a vampire enforcer
named Jarko Grimwood.
Levesque has also appeared in several
WWE
Home Video releases, including
Triple H: The Game and
Triple H: That Damn Good in 2002,
D-Generation-X,
a reissue of the VHS version, in 2006, and
The New and Improved
DX in 2007.
Triple H: King of Kings, a DVD covering
his career so far, was released on March 25, 2008.
Television appearances
Levesque appeared in an episode of the USA Network series
Pacific Blue on
August 9, 1998. In December 1998, he did a guest appearance in
The Drew Carey Show as
the Disciplinarian. He was also featured in the August 14, 2005
episode of
MTV's
Punk'd in which he was led to believe that he
had ruined a wedding by hitting the bride in the face with a door
and damaging her nose until
Ashton
Kutcher and
Stacy Keibler showed
up. Additionally, his television appearances include guest spots as
Triple H on
MADtv and
Saturday Night Live, and as a
character on an episode of
The
Bernie Mac Show. Levesque also won the WWE edition of
The Weakest Link, in which
he and Stephanie McMahon were the final two contestants. Levesque
has also been a guest announcer for the
Mr.
Olympia competition. On September 19, 2009 he accompanied
Floyd "Money" Mayweather to
the ring as he faced off against
Juan Manuel Márquez.
Personal life
Before marrying Stephanie McMahon, Levesque was in a relationship
with Joanie Laurer (who appeared as
Chyna).
They dated from 1996 until 2000.
Levesque married Stephanie McMahon on October 25, 2003. On January
8, 2006, WWE announced that McMahon and Levesque were expecting
their first child, due on July 27, 2006. Stephanie McMahon
continued to work and travel with WWE throughout her
pregnancy, giving birth to an 8 lb, 7 oz
(3.8 kg) baby girl, Aurora Rose Levesque, on July 24, 2006.
The couple had their second child on July 28, 2008, a daughter
named Murphy Claire Levesque.
He has a sister named Lynn. His in-laws are Vince,
Linda and
Shane
McMahon.
In late 2004, Levesque released a book entitled
Making the
Game: Triple H's Approach to a Better Body. Mostly devoted to
bodybuilding advice, the book also includes some
autobiographical information, memoirs, and
opinions.
In wrestling
- Nicknames
- "The Connecticut Blueblood"
- "The Cerebral Assassin"
- "The Game"
- "The King of Kings"
Championships and accomplishments
- Independent Wrestling Federation
- IWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Notes
- Baer, Randy and R. D. Reynolds. Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst
of Pro Wrestling (p.204)
- Baer, Randy and R. D. Reynolds. Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst
of Pro Wrestling (p.206)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.95)
- Laurer, Joanie. If They Only Knew, 266–267.
- Laurer, Joanie. If They Only Knew, 269.
- Baer, Randy and R. D. Reynolds. Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst
of Pro Wrestling (p.210)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.100)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.102)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.104)
- Baer, Randy and R. D. Reynolds. Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst
of Pro Wrestling (p.257)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.105)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.106)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.107)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.110)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.111)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.112)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.114)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.115)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.116)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.117)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.118)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.119)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.121)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac
& book of facts. "Wrestling’s historical cards" (p.122)
- 'Pacific Blue' episode summary tv.com.
Retrieved on 2008-7-18.
- Laurer, Joanie. If They Only Knew, 352.
References
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