[16] turning heel in the process. On August 18 at SummerSlam, Triple H served as the special guest referee for the WWE Championship match between champion John Cena and Daniel Bryan. [11], In 2020, Levesque became WWE's Executive Vice President of Global Talent Strategy & Development. In the end, the healing process took seven months, one month less than his first quad injury to the opposite leg. Over the later part of 2011, Triple H was locked in feud with his old friend Kevin Nash, another wrestler who is more than familiar with recurring injuries. 10 Recent Wrestling Moments That Shook The World, Triple H "Very Happy" With Failed Vince McMahon Prodigy's WWE Progress Triple H's long career saw him overcome several major injuries, some of which put him on the shelf for months at a time. The tenacious Triple H. The Injuries of Triple H Trauma to a wrestler can be severe and derail a career. Hunter sat down with an opponent from the match, Chris Jericho, on the Talk Is Jericho podcast, and they went over the match together and talked about this Triple H injury. [138] Triple H made an untelevised appearance on October 30 at the WWE Fan Appreciation Event and also at the 2010 Tribute to the Troops. Its mostly just until the swelling goes down. He is also a two-time Royal Rumble match winner, and a King of the Ring tournament winner. [81] Triple H was drafted to the SmackDown! Yeah, and its Hunter. [22] The team was short-lived, however, as Levesque left for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in January 1995 after WCW turned down his request to be promoted as a singles competitor. The unhappy triad, also known as a blown knee among other names, is an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, and meniscus. 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[a], Triple H won a number of championships in his career, being a five-time Intercontinental Champion, a three-time world tag team champion (two World Tag Team Championship reigns, and one Unified WWE Tag Team Championship reign), a two-time European Champion, and a fourteen-time world champion, making him the company's seventh Triple Crown Champion and second Grand Slam Champion. [195] His final match on pay-per-view was a loss to Randy Orton at Super ShowDown on June 7. ", Triple H remembers saying, "Wow, so what does that mean? [211] After his tag team match along with Michaels against Undertaker and Kane at Crown Jewel in 2018, Wade Keller from Pro Wrestling Torch wrote that Triple H "moves like the trees in Wizard of Oz". [204], Considered by Men's Journal and news.com.au as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time,[205][206] Triple H received most of his acclaim for his work as a villain throughout his career. It happened in a very innocuous manner but was perhaps a result of wear and tear and years of landing on the quad area from delivering pedigrees. At Survivor Series on November 19, Triple H and Austin had a match 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 10feet high. When we do them, we take a high risk; thats why theyre called high-risk moves. 1998 Aug;28(2):88-96. doi: 10.2519/jospt.1998.28.2.88. It was just one of those things. His next three were as simply WWE Champion, while his ninth reign was as WWE World Heavyweight Champion. [65] Triple H then became a world tag team champion by winning the WWF Tag Team Championship for the first time at Backlash on April 29 when he and Austin defeated Kane and The Undertaker in a "Winner Take All" tag team match. [78] Triple H lost the championship to Chris Benoit on March 14 at WrestleMania XX in a triple threat match also involving Michaels. Most men wouldnt be able to walk with a torn quad, let alone continue a wrestling match, but thats exactly what Triple H pulled off. People online were mocking it calling it the. [33] When he 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. ", "Triple H speaks at memorial service for Lemmy Kilmister", "Triple H says it's Game time for West Ham United", "Triple H Brings His Game to 'The Bernie Mac Show' Friday, March 11, on Fox", "The Man comes around: Becky Lynch breaks out for WWE as the 2018 Wrestler of the Year", "Pro Wrestling Illustrated Award Winners Match of the Year", "Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2000", "Pro Wrestling Illustrated Top 500 PWI Years", "Title History: World Heavyweight Championship", "Title History: WWE Tag Team: D-Generation X", "Title History: World Tag Team: Stone Cold & Triple H", "Title History: World Tag Team: D-Generation X", "Every Royal Rumble match winner: Where are they now? Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969), better known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive, actor, and retired professional wrestler. He made his professional debut on March 24, 1992, in Kowalski's promotion, the International Wrestling Federation (IWF), under the name "Terra Ryzing", defeating Tony Roy. New, Top WWE Tag Team "On The Fence" About Splitting Up He regained the title from Michaels in a Three Stages of Hell match at Armageddon on December 15, winning 21. At the time, Michaels was the WWE World Champion,. Authors . More details:", Paul Levesque's executive profile at WWE.com, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Triple_H&oldid=1141671325, Most Hated Wrestler of the Decade (20002009), Ranked No. It was a marginal improvement from his . With that said, let's take a look at all of those injuries in detail in the run down below. Triple H went on to become a fourteen-time world champion. [101] After that, McMahon gave Orton a rematch against Triple H in a Last Man Standing match in the main event, and Triple H lost after an RKO on a broadcast table. During the main event of the May 21, 2001 episode of Raw Is War, he suffered a legitimate and career-threatening injury. [202] On the October 10 episode of Raw, he, along with Shawn Michaels, X-Pac, and Road Dogg, held a DX reunion to celebrate the stable's 25-year anniversary. As usual, Triple H figured he was fine and went back out for the last segment of the show with Batista. [170] Along with his wife Stephanie, they subsequently created The Authority, with The Shield (Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose) as his enforcers, Kane as the Director of Operations and Orton as their hand-picked WWE Champion. [141] This was followed by the announcement that he had been assigned to take over as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the WWE. [198] The final match of his career took place on the January 11, 2021 episode of Raw when he faced Randy Orton in an "unsanctioned fight", which ended in a no-contest after Alexa Bliss and "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt got involved. [29] It has been claimed that he was scheduled to win the 1996 King of the Ring tournament, but the victory was instead awarded to Stone Cold Steve Austin after the Madison Square Garden Incident, in which the Kliq broke character after a match to say goodbye to the departing Nash and Hall. Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969), better known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive, actor, and retired professional wrestler. In 1995, he signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), where he became Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and later, Triple H.[5] In WWF, Triple H gained industry fame as a member of The Kliq and co-founding the influential D-Generation X stable, which became a major element of the "Attitude Era" in the 1990s. Despite the injury, The Game finished the match by hitting Kane with a Pedigree and pinning him for the win. [5][68] After holding the title for a month, Triple H lost it to Hollywood Hulk Hogan on April 21 at Backlash. He seems like the type of guy who stays focused on a task until the job is done, a real work hard, play hard kind of guy. [85] At WrestleMania on April 3, Triple H lost the championship to Batista,[86] and subsequently lost two rematches on May 1 at Backlash[87] and on June 26 at Vengeance, where Batista became the first man to pin Triple H inside Hell in a Cell. [178] After his match with Sting, he and Stephanie McMahon were later confronted by The Rock and Ronda Rousey during a promo regarding the record crowd at the event. [221][222] In this role, he oversees the companys creative writing, talent relations, live events, talent development and creative services departments. [82] Triple H was traded back to Raw without competing on SmackDown! More importantly, Ian is also a wrestling fan, comic book reader, video game player and photographer. However, Sheamus was still furious at Triple H, and he once again laid him out at their second encounter at Extreme Rules. Triple H Smash. He officially retired from in ring competition at WrestleMania 38, leaving his boots in the ring and signaling the end of his in ring career. Head Is Struck. The first-ever Elimination Chamber match took place at Survivor Series 2002. [144] After repeated attacks from these wrestlers in various matches, the majority of WWE's on-screen staff gave Triple H a vote of no confidence. World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE, World Heavyweight Champion and Evolution (20022005), Multiple WWE Championship reigns (20072009), Third run with D-Generation X (20092010), Post-retirement and corporate roles (2022present), Accusing Kane of murder and necrophilia (Katie Vick). Unique lists featuring pop culture, entertainment and crazy facts. "I feel completely safe in the ring with Rob every time Im in there with him. [79] He lost the title after 280 days on September 21 at Unforgiven to Goldberg, in a match with the stipulation that had Goldberg lost, he would have to retire. Less than 85% on limb symmetry score is classified as abnormal ( ) Vertical Hop. [80] After failing to win back the title from Goldberg in a rematch on November 16 at Survivor Series, he finally regained the championship from Goldberg in a triple threat match at Armageddon on December 14, which also involved Kane. The man didnt even know whether his throat was fully crushed or not. [193] His feud with The Undertaker continued into Crown Jewel on November 2, where Shawn Michaels came out of retirement to reform DX with him, in a winning effort against The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane). 7 1999. However, even the mightiest warrior have many wounds in his body, and similarly, Triple H has endured various injuries throughout his career. These are the worst. Group C had a 74.9% LSI with a SD of 13.3. He was back in action within a couple ofweeks but stayed in the hospital overnight. However, this was a no-contest done right. [216] That year, he earned a combined salary of just over $1.5 million from his front office job and as a wrestler. [190] Angle subsequently joined forces with the debuting Ronda Rousey, and the two defeated Triple H and Stephanie McMahon in a mixed tag match at WrestleMania 34 on April 8, 2018 after Stephanie submitted to Rousey's armbar. Triple H's quad injuries get a lot of focus due to how severe they were but his neck has given him a lot of issues over the years, too. Regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he currently serves as the chief content officer for WWE. It took place on August 30, 1998, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Triple H wound up requiring surgery once he was back in the United States and, after lengthy rehabilitation, returned to the ring for WrestleMania 35, where he defeated Batista. During a tag team match against The Hurricane and Rosey, the latter performed a botched leg drop on Triple H and landed hard on The Game's head and neck. Rapid, extreme swelling. [16] He dropped the WWF Championship to Mr. McMahon on the September 16, 1999 episode of SmackDown! [29][30] Up until that event, his angle included appearing on television each week with a different female valet (which included Playboy Playmates Shae Marks and Tylyn John). 1 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the, Ranked No. RELATED:10 Wrestlers You Wouldn't Believe Beat Triple H. Just to add some really gross icing to a terrible cake, Triple H sustained a horrible tear to his right pectoral muscle. Rob tried to protect me as best he could. [52] Their feud culminated in a Last Man Standing match at Fully Loaded on July 23 which Triple H won. Eventually, after numerous attempts, Levesque persuaded Arcidi to introduce him to former wrestler Killer Kowalski, who ran a professional wrestling school in Malden, Massachusetts. Randy Orton and Batista to become the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion", "CALDWELL'S WWE EXTREME RULES PPV RESULTS 5/4: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live PPV - Bryan vs. Kane, Evolution vs. Shield, Cena vs. Wyatt steel cage match", "CALDWELL'S WWE PAYBACK PPV RESULTS 6/1: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live PPV - Bryan's Decision, Shield vs. Evolution "Final Battle," Cena vs. Wyatt", "WWE Raw results: Seth Rollins explains betraying The Shield as Money in the Bank takes shape", "Team Cena def. It was a brutal injury that came at a straightforward moment in the match. He also said there were moments where he thought he would die and confirmed that the event forced his retirement: "I was nose-diving and sort of at the one-yard line of where you don't want to be really, for your family and your future. Hardy interfered and hit Triple H with a steel chair meant for Edge, costing him the title after a 210 day reign. Once the swelling goes down, I have to see. Obviously, there was a story reason why Rock got such an easy win. He defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin on October 17 at No Mercy before dropping the title to Big Show on November 14 at Survivor Series. Shawn Michaels, in Triple Hs corner, could see the match was losing structure and used his high ring IQ to save the match. One of them was to win the Royal Rumble, and the other was to eliminate Steve Austin as he would receive a hefty $100,000 from Shane McMahon's trust fund. [8][9] Later in his career, Triple H gained notability for his behind-the-scenes work at WWE, creating the developmental branch NXT, and gaining praise for his business acumen in professional wrestling. However, he was not able to enjoy the title for long as he suffered a legitimate knee injury and had to relinquish the title. Though a new champion was crowned, Triple H helped re-sign Punk and upheld both championship reigns. Some authors mistakenly believe that in this . In April, he started to move away from his DX look, taping his fists for matches, sporting new and shorter wrestling trunks and adopting a shorter hairstyle. One was delivered not long after tearing his quad as the match was still going on. No one had ever tried jumping off one of the pods before, and nobody really knew what it would feel like to bump on the steel and all the surroundings the Elimination Chamber came with. During the second assault, Triple H sustained a legitimate injury which WWE later revealed as a fractured vertebra. "Wrestling's historical cards" (p.100), Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. [123] He teamed with Shane McMahon and Batista against Orton and The Legacy in a six-man tag match for the WWE Championship on April 26 at Backlash, which they lost after Orton pinned Triple H.[124] He lost a Three Stages of Hell title match to Orton on June 28 at The Bash. [68] Triple H then became exclusive to the SmackDown! [18], In early 1990, Levesque began to train as a professional wrestler at Killer Kowalski's school in Malden. This ended in a match between the two at WrestleMania XIV on March 29, 1998, with the stipulation that Chyna had to be handcuffed to then-Commissioner Sgt. [107], On the June 23 episode 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. "[200], According to the Wrestling Figure Checklist, Levesque had 412 action figures produced of his likeness between the 1990s and 2010s. He also holds an executive position in the company, working as the senior adviser to . [89], After a four-month hiatus, Triple H returned to Raw on October 3, where he and Flair defeated Chris Masters and Carlito. Triple H already had a history of neck injuries when he once again found himself in the same position in 2005. [74] He went on to claim that, after Vick was killed in a car crash, Kane (the driver) raped her corpse. [16], On March 28 at WrestleMania XV, Triple H lost to Kane after Chyna interfered on his behalf and she was thought to have rejoined DX. In 2011, the Pro Wrestling Torch stated that he was "widely regarded as the best wrestler in North America" by 2000. [153] At No Way Out on June 17, Triple H challenged a non-present Lesnar to a match at SummerSlam,[154] which Heyman refused on Lesnar's behalf the following night on Raw. Thankfully the swelling went down. La fibromyalgie, ou syndrome fibromyalgique, est une forme de douleur chronique diffuse associe d'autres symptmes tels que fatigue, troubles du sommeil et de l'humeur, troubles cognitifs, dconditionnement physique. He followed it up by hitting some wicked chair shots, bringing the match to an improvised no-contest finish. and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon, Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame, "A guide to collecting WrestleMania's biggest stars from WrestleMania 1 to 27", "W.W.W.F./W.W.F./W.W.E. (ACL deficient knees) 0.81s difference between limbs. Triple H being Triple H, he continued to wrestle for the next several weeks until he was finally pulled from house shows as well as the European tour. [34] Even after the DX versus Hart Foundation storyline ended, he continued to feud with the sole remaining Hart family member Owen over the European Championship. John Cena, Kofi Kingston, Ted DiBiase, and Randy Orton were the other participants in the contest and as the match went by, Triple H took a massive Celtic Cross from Sheamus and ended up sustaining another neck injury. [51], After a brief run as a face that saw him defeat Chris Benoit on October 22 at No Mercy,[57] Triple H reverted to his heel persona and restarted his feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin when it emerged that Triple H had paid off Rikishi to run down Austin at Survivor Series, causing him to take a year off. [10], Outside wrestling, he has been a figure of substantial media attention due to his marriage to Stephanie McMahon, daughter of Vince McMahon and the CEO of WWE. [36] After losing the title, he feuded with Goldust, defeating him on March 23 at WrestleMania 13. The majority of these were produced by Jakks Pacific and Mattel, making Levesque one of the most produced wrestlers in history.[235]. Affiliation . Facing off with a big fella like Sheamus isn't something to take lightly. It was Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho against Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin. 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Medically necessary but they looked ridiculous on him. The injury Triple H ended up with was bad but it could have been much, much worse, possibly even life threatening. Triple H defended the World Heavyweight Championship inside the Elimination Chamber once again when he walked inside the structure at the 2003 SummerSlam PPV. He teamed up with Shawn Michaels at the 2007 New Year's Revolution PPV to take on Edge and Randy Orton. [118] That record stood until 2011 when John Cena won his ninth WWE Championship. His ring name was soon modified to Terra Ryzing, which he used until mid-1994, when he was renamed Jean-Paul Lvesque. Aninterview for WWE.com the day after the second Triple Hinjury backed up what RVD said and explained his version of events. At one point, Randy bizarrely ran into the ring with a steel chair, setting up to hit Triple H in the back but then decided against it, running back out of the ring with the steel chair in hand. There are three types of dislocation around the knee joint: patellofemoral, tibiofemoral, and tibiofibular. [196] Triple H's final house show match took place on June 29 in Tokyo, Japan, where he and Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Robert Roode and Samoa Joe after Nakamura pinned Roode. His first feud was with Vince McMahon and in a surprise move he married Stephanie McMahon. [175], The Authority were briefly removed from power after losing a five-on-five tag team elimination match on November 23 at Survivor Series after Sting made his WWE debut to assist their opponents. [The doctors here] were saying I might never wrestle again, so I gotta stay here to rehab, and [the office] was like, Done, stay where youre at., "I lived in the Embassy Suites [located in Birmingham, Alabama] for nine months. Musculoskeletal exam, Viscosupplementation, Physical examination, Injection, Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration, . [17] Despite his inability to place any weight on his leg, Triple H was able to complete the match. During Triple H's early days in the DX faction, he found himself in contention for the Intercontinental Championship, and he got his hands on the title when he defeated The Rock at SummerSlam 1998. This Triple H injury caused an extraordinary amount of pain, and Triple H immediately started kicking against the mat furiously. With it being such a fresh concept, an injury was a strong possibility. Petschnig et al (ACL) Group A had a 95.2% LSI with a SD of 8.5. What began as an on-screen storyline marriage in 2000 became a real-life romance when Levesque began dating Stephanie McMahon. But as of right now, they think its not structural damage; its just swollen tissue. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon", "D-Generation X def. It caused swelling on the inside of my throat, which closed my airway down. During the match, SmackDown general manager Vickie Guerrero announced that Edge had returned and introduced him into the contest. The feud ended on February 17 at No Way Out inside Hell in a Cell, where Triple H retained the title and forced Foley to retire. [49] He regained it three weeks later, in an Iron Man match on May 21 at Judgment Day,[50] only to lose it back to The Rock on June 25 at King of the Ring. He also owns just over $1.5 million in WWE stock. [46], Triple H feuded with Mick Foley in early 2000. If the injury looks bad for the athlete, theyll be taken out of the game. They had a dark match after an episode of Raw which was part of the build leading into their match at SummerSlam. On December 13 at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, DX defeated Jeri-Show (Chris Jericho and Big Show) to win the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. He announced he would referee a match to unify both WWE Championships on August 14 at SummerSlam. [156] To anger Triple H, Lesnar broke Michaels's arm on the August 13 episode of Raw. The time was right, and there it was. Laurinaitis was named interim general manager of Raw, and booked him and Punk in a tag team match against Miz and R-Truth on October 23 at Vengeance. However, he continued making occasional appearances in an executive role for NXT. "[The doctors] told me not to wrestle for at least ten days. In early 1994, Levesque signed a one-year contract with World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In response, Triple H stormed out the arena and vowed to return to the ring the next week on Raw.[169]. A wrestler can become a perfect heel when he combines various aspects like power, cunning, and wisdom in his efforts in taking down his adversaries. They then again defeated the McMahons on August 20 at SummerSlam, withstanding the attack of several wrestlers who assaulted them before the match as directed by Mr. Ive never seen a contact sports athlete come back from this, so if you do, its gonna be awesome. Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. For the. She supposedly fell to her knees and shrieked, "Noooooooo!" "They needed to keep me overnight because they were afraid that if it swelled any more, my airway would close off, and before I would be able to tell anybody, I wouldnt be able to breathe, and I could die. 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. The group was heavily pushed on Raw and the height of their dominance occurred after Armageddon, where every member of Evolution left the event holding a title. Two of the men in that inaugural bout were Triple H and Rob Van Dam. [12] Levesque suffered a major myocardial infarction in September 2021, which resulted in him having 15 hours of surgery and being fitted with ICD in December. The injury took him out of action for two months as The Game didn't return to in-ring competition until November 1998 when he defeated Al Snow at a house show. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. Answer (1 of 3): The injury of Stone Cold's knees is one that occurred over the accumulation of his career. Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff then awarded Triple H the World Heavyweight Championship, represented by the Big Gold Belt (which previously had been used to represent the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship), making him the first World Heavyweight Champion. I said, Im telling ya, and he put his hand in there and was like, Wow, you did. He could feel the divot and stuff. Two were career-threatening injuries, while another came close to ending his life. Group B had a 46.3% LSI with a SD of 12.9. At the event, DX defeated The Brothers of Destruction, but the victory came at a great cost as Triple h tore his pectoral muscle during the match, and had to undergo surgery to repair the damage.

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