Triple H

Background

Paul Michael Levesque, popularly known as Triple H, was born on July 27, 1969, and raised in Nashua, New Hampshire. Levesque began his professional wrestling training from 1990 to 1991 and his career from 1992 to 1993 with the International Wrestling Federation (IWF) under the name Terra Ryzing. He joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1994 to 1995 and was repackaged as a French-Canadian aristocrat named Jean-Paul Lévesque, and was later repackaged in 1995 when he signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), where he became Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and later, Levesque.

He began his professional wrestling career with the International Wrestling Federation under the name Terra Ryzing, before joining World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1993. After briefly using the name Ryzing, he changed his character to Jean-Paul Lévesque, a French-Canadian aristocrat, similar to the character Hunter Hearst Helmsley, who used in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1995. He later shortened his name to Levesque and adopted an alternate image in the D-Generation X group (DX). After the end of DX, Levesque won several individual titles. As part of the story, Levesque married Stephanie McMahon, who later became his real-life wife. In 2003, Levesque formed a new group known as Evolution and reformed DX with Shawn Michaels in 2006 and 2009.

In total, the wrestler has won 24 WWE titles, including 14 world titles, having won the WWF/E Championship nine times and the World Heavyweight Championship five times. In addition, the wrestler also won the 1997 King of the Ring, the 2002 and 2016 Royal Rumble, and was the second winner of the Grand Slam Championship. Outside of wrestling, he has made numerous cameo appearances in films and on television.