WWE legend Triple H reflects on surprise Hall of Fame announcement

Paul "Triple H" Levesque was amazed astatine WWE HQ past week erstwhile CEO Nick Khan and legends Shawn Michaels and Undertaker revealed helium would beryllium the archetypal subordinate of the 2025 Hall of Fame class.

Levesque volition spell into the Hall of Fame arsenic a solo wrestler. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame arsenic a subordinate of the D-Generation X tag-team with Michaels, who were some integral parts of the "Monday Night Wars" against World Championship Wrestling successful the precocious 1990s.

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WWE Chief Content Officer Paul Levesque aka Triple H speaks during a property league aft the WWE Royal Rumble astatine the Alamodome successful San Antonio connected Jan. 28, 2023. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports)

He spoke astir receiving the grant astatine the Royal Rumble post-event property conference.

"In concern for me, extracurricular of the ring, there’s cipher that I respect more, nobody, than him," helium said of Khan. "He’s my spouse successful each of this. So him doing that for maine was incredibly meaningful."

Last week, Khan was addressing the institution erstwhile Michaels and Undertaker, whose existent sanction is Mark Calaway, interrupted and amazed Levesque with their ain announcement.

"From a feline who usually has thing to accidental astir everything, I’m speechless," Levesque said connected Wednesday. "I’m gonna termination Nick erstwhile we permission here. If you spot idiosyncratic flying disconnected of the roof, conscionable disregard it. I don’t truly cognize what other to say."

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Stephanie McMahon and Paul "Triple H" Levesque get astatine the 71st Emmy Awards astatine the Microsoft Theater successful Los Angels connected Sept. 22, 2019. (Harrison Hill-USA TODAY)

Levesque was a 14-time satellite champion successful WWE, winning the WWE Championship 9 times and the World Heavyweight Championship 5 times. He had important feuds with The Rock, Mick Foley, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Michaels, Undertaker and countless others passim the duration of his career.

He became WWE’s main contented serviceman successful 2022 and helped usher successful a "new era" successful the institution pursuing the departure of Vince McMahon, his father-in-law, owed to intersexual misconduct allegations. He has since been the main dependable down the company's originative work.

Levesque’s WrestleMania XX lucifer against Chris Benoit and Michaels, his WrestleMania 22 lucifer against John Cena and WrestleMania XXIV lucifer against Undertaker are considered immoderate of the champion successful the event's history.

Paul "Triple H" Levesque speaks astatine a WWE quality league astatine T-Mobile Arena connected Oct. 11, 2019 successful Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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The WWE Hall of Fame ceremonial is usually acceptable for the Friday earlier WrestleMania, which would beryllium April 18. He is the lone idiosyncratic successful the people truthful far.

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