The Game is over! Just announced via WWE.com on Twitter.
BREAKING: Triple H retires from professional wrestling.
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It's time for Triple H to become the new Mr. Mcmahon
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Congrats on a wonderful career. He will be missed in the ring.
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it's truly amazing that HHH's last 2 matches are against Batista and Orton, 2 stars he build and create
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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.”
Thank God he's ok now. Thanks Hunter.
“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.”
Thank God he's ok now. Thanks Hunter.
Congrats on an amazing career and even a better retirement enjoying the great things life has to offer.
Say what you want about Triple H, but the 2nd half of the Attitude Era wouldn't have worked as well if Rock and Austin didn't have a vicious and credible heel like Triple H to work with. He also put Batista over in a huge way, and Batista went on to become wrestlings 2nd biggest star post Attitude Era and a big deal in Hollywood
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Loved him during the attitude era and the early 2000's. But the best thing he ever did was NXT which got me back into wrestling again after WWE being so bad for so long. I know it didn't last, but that wasn't 100% his fault and I've gained a lot of respect for him in the last 5 years or so. So happy that he pulled through, that had to have been scary as hell.
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That's fine. He should put his health first.
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And still didn't have a proper send off.
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I think most people had figured this was the case following the news of his heart issues, but hearing it officially is still sad. Despite what anyone says he put his body on the line night after night for what he loved and that's to be admired. Just glad he's still around for his family.
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Yeah…he’s not done
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It was to be expected unfortunately.
Thank you for the memories, Hunter.
Thank you for the memories, Hunter.
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he was already retired.
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Tho I wish he had a proper Wrestlemania send off match, his last 2 televised matches were 2 protégés of his Batista and Randy Orton.
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Why is everyone acting surprised? After the heart attack it should’ve been obvious that he would never wrestle again. Then when Scott Hall passed away from 3 heart attacks, there is no way Hunter was taking that risk. Wrestling fans are stupid at times if they expected him to continue wrestling after all that.
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