Triple H's long career saw him overcome several major injuries, some of which put him on the shelf for months at a time. [97], At SummerSlam on August 26, he defeated King Booker in his return match. [23] During this time, he began using his finishing maneuver, the Pedigree. Triple H's best friend and DX partner never returned to in-ring competition after he lost his career vs. streak match against The Undertaker at WrestleMania 26. ", Speaking about his recovery, "Whether its four, six, or eight months, I dont really know, but I know what I gotta go through to get to the end of the road, and its a long, slow process I dont just want to come back and wrestle; I want to come back and be The Game. Triple H won the match, winning his eleventh world championship and sixth WWE Championship,[100] then defended his title against Umaga in his regularly scheduled match after Mr. McMahon declared the match to be for the WWE title. In early 1994, Levesque signed a one-year contract with World Championship Wrestling (WCW). After WrestleMania, Shawn Michaels was forced into temporary retirement due to a legitimate back injury sustained in January at the Royal Rumble,[41] with Triple H taking over the leadership position in DX,[34] claiming that his now-former associate had "dropped the ball". "Wrestling's historical cards" (p.119), Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. It felt honestly like my kneecap just kind of blew over to the side of my leg, which wasnt my kneecap moving so much as it was just the quad ripping off and sliding over to the side. Angered at his loss, a bloodied Triple H used his sledgehammer to attack both Edge and Cena and then performed a number of DX crotch chops. [148] After initially refusing the rematch as he did not want to tarnish The Undertaker's legacy,[149] Triple H accepted the challenge after being called a coward who lives in Shawn Michaels' shadow, on the condition their rematch be contested inside Hell in a Cell. First of all, I have a defibrillator in my chest, which, you know, probably not a good idea for me to get zapped on live TV. "Wrestling's historical cards" (p.110), Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. Rob tried to protect me as best he could. Background Dislocation of the knee is a serious and potentially limb-threatening injury. [179], The WWE World Heavyweight Championship was vacated after Rollins suffered a legitimate severe knee injury in November 2015 and a tournament to determine a new champion was held at Survivor Series on November 22, which was won by Roman Reigns. In October, Triple H began a controversial feud with Kane, leading to a match at No Mercy in which both Kane's Intercontinental Championship and Triple H's World Heavyweight Championship were at stake. 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. It just happened. When RVD went for the Five-Star Frog Splash off the top of one of the pods, he accidentally landed with his knee on Triple H's throat. 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. A dedication was shown from the beginning right until the end, with Triple H staying in Alabama to give himself the best chance of recovery. What began as an on-screen storyline marriage in 2000 became a real-life romance when Levesque began dating Stephanie McMahon. It wasnt his fault; it wasnt my fault. [69] When he learned that it was fake, he dumped her publicly on Raw when they were supposed to renew their wedding vows. Triple H defended his World Heavyweight Championship in an Elimination Chamber match at the 2002 Survivor Series PPV against Shawn Michaels, Booker T, Kane, Chris Jericho, and Rob Van Dam. [141] This was followed by the announcement that he had been assigned to take over as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the WWE. 139 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the, Metal Hammer's Spirit of Lemmy Award (2016), This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 06:01. [61] Triple H also feuded with The Undertaker, who defeated him on April 1 at WrestleMania X-Seven. On the January 3 episode of Raw Is War, Triple H defeated Big Show to win his third WWF Championship. In a modified version of his gimmick in WCW, Levesque started his WWF career as a "Connecticut Blueblood". Petschnig et al (ACL) Group A had a 95.2% LSI with a SD of 8.5. [16] After failed attempts at winning the championship, Triple H and Mankind challenged then WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin to a triple threat match on August 22 at SummerSlam, which featured Jesse "The Body" Ventura as the special guest referee. [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. [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. Naturally, that aggravated the injury and made it even worse. There are three types of dislocation around the knee joint: patellofemoral, tibiofemoral, and tibiofibular. Levesque had a brief feud with Alex Wright that ended on December 27 at Starrcade[5] with Wright pinning him. I was visibly upset about it. [99] On October 7 at No Mercy, Triple H was originally scheduled to face Umaga in a singles match. [134] On the January 11, 2010, episode of Raw, Mike Tyson, who was the Raw guest host for the night, teamed with Jericho to face DX; at the end of the bout, Tyson turned on Jericho and aligned himself with Triple H and Michaels. [232] He is a supporter of English football team West Ham United FC. This is what your Olympic hero had to say about it. Never one to do things halfway, Triple H decided the best option was to tear his right quadricep, five years to the day after returning from his left quad tear. [18], In early 1990, Levesque began to train as a professional wrestler at Killer Kowalski's school in Malden. [78] Triple H held the World Heavyweight Championship for most of 2003, successfully defending against Booker T on March 30 at WrestleMania XIX in an angle with racist undertones. [136], On February 21, Triple H eliminated then WWE Champion Sheamus from the Elimination Chamber match, though he did not win the title. "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. Vince was super cool about it.". More importantly, Ian is also a wrestling fan, comic book reader, video game player and photographer. Triple H returned to the ring after his first torn quad injury on January 7, 2002. It didn't simply happen over night. Despite the injury, The Game finished the match by hitting Kane with a Pedigree and pinning him for the win. It was not to his spine as the WWE said but was to his face. Triple H returned to the ring 13 days after Survivor Series, so given the closeness of the dates, it might have been a legitimate consideration. [17][21] In his first televised match, Levesque debuted as a villain named Terror Risin', defeating Keith Cole. RVD is an exceptional athlete, and he uses a lot of that athleticism in his Five-Star Frog Splash, using the ropes as leverage, getting that extra spring, covering great distance, and adjusting his body mid-air But it wasnt natural for him to do all that on top of a pod. 9 Quad Injury - 2001 Triple H sustained the most gruesome injury of his career in 2001 when he suffered a tear in his left quadriceps muscle, causing it to come completely off the bone. Triple H after tearing his pectoral muscle, and after surgery. But RVD misjudged the timing and ended up landing hard on The Game's throat, which caused a swelling inside the throat that put pressure on his esophagus and trachea. By the time he returned, Triple H's on-screen marriage to Stephanie McMahon was faltering, so Stephanie faked a pregnancy in order to get him back on her side. [4][15] His classmates included fellow future WWF wrestlers Chyna and Perry Saturn. The match was thrilling, and the crowd was hot, everything was going really well, and the boys were going to enjoy a few beers and celebrate after this performance all that changed during the latter stages of the match. 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. 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. 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. This is one of the prices you have to pay for being in the professional wrestling industry. When Triple H completely recovered from the quad injury he sustained in 2001 he must've sworn to be more careful in the ring. [7] Triple H has headlined several major WWE pay-per-view events, closing the company's flagship annual event, WrestleMania, on seven occasions. Their group ran roughshod over the WWE for several months. [150] Triple H went on to lose this match on April 1 at WrestleMania XXVIII. 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. With that said, let's take a look at all of those injuries in detail in the run down below. During a match on Raw that featured Rosey and The Hurricane, Rosey performed a leg drop on Triple H that put a lot of pressure on his head and neck in the wrong way. Answer (1 of 3): The injury of Stone Cold's knees is one that occurred over the accumulation of his career. [11], In 2020, Levesque became WWE's Executive Vice President of Global Talent Strategy & Development. [13], Levesque was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. 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. [185][186], On the August 29 episode of Raw, Triple H made his return by interfering in the main event for the recently vacated and established WWE Universal Championship. [34][39] Later that year, Shawn Michaels, Helmsley, Chyna and Rick Rude formed D-Generation X (DX). [1] Managed by John Rodeo, he wrestled for various promotions on the East Coast independent circuit until 1993.[20]. Difficulty and pain in trying to move the knee. 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[213], As the founder and executive producer of NXT since its inception in 2010, Levesque has been widely praised for helping cultivate the brand, recruiting fresh new talent, and helping guide the brand to various levels of success including sold-out shows, increased respect for women's professional wrestling, international expansion and critically acclaimed matches. weight on you from a few feet in the air and it hit you on the throat, it could crush your windpipe and kill you instantly. After The Game hit his pedigree on the announce table whilst dealing with the pain of a detached muscle, Shawn Michaels took a huge leap from the turnbuckle to the Spanish announce table, elbow dropping Orton in the process. [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. [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. [221][222] In this role, he oversees the companys creative writing, talent relations, live events, talent development and creative services departments. 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[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. A rumor worth noting is that Stephanie McMahon was absolutely devastated backstage when the injury occurred and was inconsolable as staff awkwardly looked on. [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. [112] He successfully defended it against Jeff Hardy both on October 5 at No Mercy[113] and Cyber Sunday on October 26. [83] The following night on Raw, Triple H turned on his protge Randy Orton (who became the youngest world champion in WWE history at SummerSlam), expressing jealousy over Orton's title victory. Unfortunately, Triple H suffered what was described as a severely strained groin. [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. Triple H then attacked him with a sledgehammer and he was carried from the ring on a stretcher.[72]. Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. [] I will never wrestle again. Tibiofemoral dislocation is the variant that is deemed the most serious, with a higher risk of compromise to the popliteal artery and common peroneal nerve. There was a fantastic tag team match on the May 21st, 2001 edition of WWE Monday Night RAW. Thankfully the swelling went down. 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, creating a rivalry between Triple H and Orton. The injury Triple H ended up with was bad but it could have been much, much worse, possibly even life threatening. Heres what Triple H had to say from the segment: "Basically, I detached the muscle at the front of my leg from the bone of my kneecap. At the start of the night, Triple H challenged newly named WWE Champion Randy Orton, reigniting their feud that had been interrupted following his injury. 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[109] He defended the championship over the summer by defeating the likes of Edge on July 20 at The Great American Bash[110] and The Great Khali on August 17 at SummerSlam,[111] and was the only champion to retain his title at Unforgiven's Championship Scramble matches on September 7. 7 1999. Group C had a 74.9% LSI with a SD of 13.3. [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. It took place on August 30, 1998, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. "The night HHH returned from his quad injury at Madison Square Garden 20 years ago. Over the course of his 10+ plus year wrestling career, his kn. Triple H failed to win the Royal Rumble match on January 29, 2006 at the Royal Rumble, but another championship opportunity arose for him in the Road to WrestleMania Tournament, which he won, granting him a match for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 22 on April 2, where he lost to champion John Cena via submission. He now works as a wrestling list writer for Valnet, Inc, covering thesportster. [35] For a very brief time, Helmsley was accompanied by Mr. Hughes, who was his storyline bodyguard reminiscent of Ted DiBiase and Virgil. It was, unfortunately, regarded by many as one of the worst matches of the year. Paul "Triple H" Levesque provides an update and comments on the knee injury suffered by Mae Young Classic performer Tegan Nox Thursday night, with thoughts from Nox following her hospitalization. 1 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the, Ranked No. While having a decorated career that spans close to thirty years, Triple H suffered three dramatic injuries within five years of each other. Grapple Moves: Grapple Punch 2 x2. The time was right, and there it was. I hope you enjoy watching. 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. But he's had some nasty injuries pile up over the years. However, he couldn't enjoy much time with the title as he endured a legitimate knee injury, and he had to relinquish the title. as she watched her husband on the monitor backstage. But as it turned out, Triple H did sustain a legit injury in the attack. "Wrestling's historical cards" (p.117), Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. The first-ever Elimination Chamber match took place at Survivor Series 2002. They were needed for support as the groin injury healed. brand on the March 22 episode of Raw and failed to capture the WWE Championship from Eddie Guerrero. Justin has been a wrestling fan since 1989, and has been writing about it since 2009. Elbow To Back Of Head 1. [127] On the August 17 episode of Raw, Triple H and Michaels officially reunited as DX, but as they were in the process of their in-ring promo, The Legacy attacked them both. Regardless, Triple H's longtime friend Kevin Nash attacked Punk immediately after the match to allow Alberto Del Rio to become the new champion. [92] On April 30 at Backlash, Triple H was involved in another WWE Championship match, fighting Edge and Cena in a triple threat match, where he lost again. I remember packing my bags; the vignettes had been playing of my return. [114], At Survivor Series on November 23, Triple H was scheduled to defend the title against Vladimir Kozlov and Jeff Hardy, but Hardy was kept out of the match after a scripted attack and injury. The Game suffered bad swelling in the throat, and hes lucky it wasnt any worse than what it was. RELATED: 10 Things About Triple H's Life Outside Of Wrestling Fans Should Know. "Wrestling's historical cards" (p.122), Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 06:01, extended Undertaker's undefeated streak to 190, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Scooby-Doo! Updated: Feb 28, 2023 / 09:26 PM CST. [143] Triple H defeated Punk at Night of Champions despite interference from John Laurinaitis, Nash, The Miz and R-Truth. During the match, Triple H took a five-star frog splash from Rob Van Dam off the top of a pod. Triple H sold Sheamus' attack to perfection at the event but ended up sustaining a legitimate torn bicep, which took him out of action for several months. Triple H then defeated Chris Jericho for his third Intercontinental Championship on the April 5 SmackDown!,[64] and won it for a fourth time two weeks later by defeating Jeff Hardy. [16] His gimmick changed as he fought to earn a WWF Championship opportunity. [184] After WrestleMania 32, with The Authority now disbanded, Triple H competed in the WWE Live tour of the United Kingdom in late April before taking a hiatus from WWE television. "Wrestling's historical cards" (p.114), Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts. Once again, Triple H's neckissues pop up as does Sheamus and the Elimination Chamber. 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