Triple H is now officially retired

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WWE Executive Vice President of Global Talent Strategy & Development Paul “Triple H” Levesque says he will never wrestle another match following a “serious cardiac event”.

“For me, as far as in-ring, which I get a lot, I’m done,” Triple H told ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith during a portion of an interview that aired on Friday’s episode of First Take. “I won’t – I would never wrestle again. First, I have a defibrillator in my chest. Which, it’s probably not a good idea for me to get zapped on live TV.”

The interview is the first for Triple H since his health problems took him out of the public eye last fall. Stephen A. Smith’s full interview with Triple H will premiere Friday night on Stephen A’s World on ESPN+.

WWE announced on September 8, 2021, that Triple H underwent successful heart surgery a week earlier at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. It was stated that the operation was needed after Triple H suffered the cardiac event, caused by a genetic heart issue.

“I had viral pneumonia,” Triple H recalled. “My lungs were inflamed. and as the next couple of days went on and I got home it got increasingly worse and my wife saw some blood and stuff that I was coughing up. I went and got checked and I – it was coming from the viral pneumonia but I had fluid in my lungs. I had some fluid around my heart. So they followed up on it. Did an EKG and echo and everything and basically the way your heart pumps out 55-65% of your ejection fraction is a good number. I was at 30. and I got a quick text message saying, ‘Don’t take time. Pack a bag real quick, head to the emergency room. I’ll fill you in on the way.

“So by the time I got to the emergency room, my ejection fraction had gone down to 22,” Triple H continued. “Which, I was in heart failure. Bad. By the next morning – as they figured that out that evening – by the next morning as they got the MRI done and they were sending me in for a heart cath my ejection fraction was down to 12. So I was nosediving and sort of at the one-yard line of where you want to be – or where you don’t want to be, really, for your family and your future.

“They tell you it’s 99%. It gets real,” Triple H said as he choked back tears. “We have 3 young girls – 15, 13, 11. You know, suddenly I come home. I’m a little bit sick and their dad who’s strong always suddenly is in the hospital and I don’t know if they understood the consequences of it but there’s moments in there where – when they’re putting you out for stuff and you think, ‘Is this it?’ Do you – Do you wake up from this? That’s tough to swallow and makes you think.”
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Thanks Hunter.
 
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I assumed he retired from wrestling over a decade ago and was just doing mic work.
 
52 is young to have heart problems.

guess there's a price to pay to look like this in your 40s...
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I remember the day after his return in 2002, the whole city was buzzing.

I was walking down the street and strangers were just high fiving each other and hugging each other.

Someone on the street said something that stuck with me to this day:
>He's captured the imagination of the entirety of this great nation, he's someone we all believe and someone with the desire to change everything... Hunter Hearst Helmsley could very well be the next president of the United States.
 
my childhood is fading away. <mma1>

HHH was the best damn heel in the game and one of my all time favorites. Go home and be a family man sir.

side note; he looks like a straight up barbarian with no hair and that epic beard.
 
Viral pneumonia from his steroid abuse.
Left him immunocompromised...
 
He wasn't as good as HBK but qas still really good. Really sold it as a heel
 
Time to play the gaaaammeeeeee.......







at home Trips, with your kids... Im sure it will be more rewarding in the long run, cheers!
 
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I remember the day after his return in 2002, the whole city was buzzing.

I was walking down the street and strangers were just high fiving each other and hugging each other.

Someone on the street said something that stuck with me to this day:
>He's captured the imagination of the entirety of this great nation, he's someone we all believe and someone with the desire to change everything... Hunter Hearst Helmsley could very well be the next president of the United States.
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That was his biggest pop ever.

He was never the the top draw, but he was consistently one of the top heels and best sellers of all time. Rock was always going to be a star, but his feud with Triple H was just as important to him at Stone Cold's.

He made Batista the "animal", one of the best angles in pro wrasslin' history, played out over months to perfection. Flair's reaction is priceless



This is one of the best pro wrestling videos of all time, centers on Triple H, and why he was one of the greatest characters we've ever had. Some hot biatches too.
 
These guys never fully retire. He’ll be back in the spandex for wrestlemania 40, looking jacked as hell, making some young hotshot eat a pin at the biggest show of the year.
 
Wasn't my favorite, but appreciated his transformation over the years from this pompus dude, to DX, to the top dog



 
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