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The Rise Of Triple H | Wrestling Timelines

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In the latest episode of Wrestling Timelines, Simon Miller explores Triple H's rise to power in professional wrestling, covering everything, including his early days as a Connecticut Blue Blood, through D-Generation X, his marriage to Stephanie McMahon, lengthy in-ring WWE career, and eventual ascension to WWE's Chief Content Officer under his real name, Paul Levesque...


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0:00.0

Triple H is one of my favourite wrestlers ever and this is a recency bias either.

0:04.5

You can go back years and years throughout all my content.

0:07.5

You can hear me defending his corner.

0:09.5

I mean, if nothing else, he inspired me to go to the gym, so he changed my life.

0:14.0

And of course these days he's better known as Paul Levesque, because he runs WWE's Creative Vision.

0:19.0

What a position to end up in because nobody had their on their

0:22.8

bingo card when he was walking around as the Greenwich Blue Blood back in the day.

0:26.8

Although it is fair to say at the moment, WWE is going through a boom period and he is leading

0:31.7

the charge and everybody calls it the new WW.

0:35.4

It ties into record attendance number and gates, although that is due to high

0:39.7

ticket prices, which is on the video for another day, the debut on Netflix, and I suppose doubling

0:44.4

down on the idea of cinema, if you know you know, back up that aura. Triple-A just certainly

0:48.8

connected the audience to the product, which is his main job, and look, he turned Cody Rhodes

0:53.2

into a baby face with the most

0:54.9

formulaic process possible. Cody wins a lot, and there ain't nothing wrong with that. He has done a great

1:00.4

job. But where does it start? We'll jump in your DeLorean, because we're going all the way back to

1:05.5

1992. Now as the story goes, Paul Levitt decided to call wrestling legend Killer Kowalski on the phone,

1:11.0

which was quite the brave move. Although it worked, I suppose, he soon became Triple H's trainer.

1:16.7

In March of that year, Levick also made his debut in Klauski's homegrown promotion against

1:21.3

none other than flying Tony Roy. This was proper indie wrestling too.

1:26.6

Word is that Tony came out to Queens,

1:29.3

We Will Rock You. And of course he did. It's also fun to watch as Hunter wears his

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