Paul “Triple H” Levesque

Extracted Attributes

• Born

  1969-07-27

• Employer

  WWE

• Full Name

  Paul Michael Levesque

• Birthplace

  Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S.

• Trained by

  Killer Kowalski

• Current Role

  Chief Content Officer, Head of Creative, Executive Producer

• Ring Name(s)

  Triple H, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Jean-Paul Levesque, Terra Ryzing, Terra Risin', Terror Rising

• Billed Height

  6 ft 4 in (193 cm)

• Billed Weight

  255 lb (116 kg)

• Royal Rumble Wins

  2 (2002, 2016)

• World Championships

  14 (9 WWF/WWE Championship, 5 World Heavyweight Championship)

• Influences (Personal)

  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair

• Key Business Philosophy

  Emphasis on Charisma and Storytelling in Wrestling

• Key Executive Contributions

  Creator of NXT, elevated female wrestlers, spearheaded international expansion (e.g., Clash at the Castle, NXT UK)

• Other Wrestling Accomplishments

  7th Triple Crown winner, 2nd Grand Slam winner

• WrestleMania Main Event Appearances

  7 (16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 32)

Timeline

• Born Paul Michael Levesque in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1969-07-27

• Graduated from Nashua High School. (Source: web_search_results)

  1987

• Won the Mr. Teen New Hampshire bodybuilding competition. (Source: web_search_results)

  1988

• Made his professional wrestling debut under the ring name Terra Ryzing. (Source: web_search_results)

  1992-03-24

• Gained mainstream exposure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Jean-Paul Levesque. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1994

• Signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and became known as Hunter Hearst Helmsley. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1995

• Began a relationship with Chyna, which lasted until 2000. (Source: web_search_results)

  1996

• Won the Royal Rumble match. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2002

• Married Stephanie McMahon. (Source: web_search_results)

  2003

• Appeared in the film "Blade: Trinity." (Source: Wikipedia)

  2004

• Appeared in the film "The Chaperone." (Source: Wikipedia)

  2011

• Appointed Executive Vice President of Talent, Live Events and Creative for WWE. (Source: web_search_results)

  2013

• Won the Royal Rumble match for the second time. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2016

• Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of D-Generation X. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2019

• Officially retired from in-ring competition at WrestleMania 38 due to health concerns. (Source: WWE.com)

  2022-04-02

• Assumed the role of Chief Content Officer, Head of Creative, and Executive Producer for WWE. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022

• Scheduled to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame for his individual career. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025

Triple H

Paul Michael Levesque (; born July 27, 1969), also known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive, professional wrestling promoter and retired wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as its chief content officer, head of creative, and is an executive producer. Levesque began his wrestling career in 1992 under the ring name Terra Ryzing, and gained his first mainstream exposure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994, becoming known as Jean-Paul Levesque. In 1995, he signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and became known as Hunter Hearst Helmsley, which was later shortened to Triple H. In WWF, he gained fame during the Attitude Era as a member of The Kliq and co-founder of D-Generation X. Amongst other wrestling accomplishments, he is a 14-time world champion in WWE, having won the WWF/WWE Championship nine times and the World Heavyweight Championship five times, a 2-time Royal Rumble winner (2002, 2016), the seventh Triple Crown winner, and second Grand Slam winner. He has headlined multiple WWE pay-per-view events, including its flagship annual event, WrestleMania, seven times (16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, and 32). In 2022, he retired from working as an in-ring performer due to health concerns but remains active in an executive role. Through his marriage to Stephanie McMahon, he is a member of the McMahon family, which held a controlling interest over WWE until its sale to Endeavor in 2023. Levesque has garnered praise for his behind-the-scenes work within the promotion, which includes creating the acclaimed developmental branch NXT, elevating female wrestlers to the level of their male counterparts, and spearheading WWE's international expansion with concepts such as Clash at the Castle and NXT UK. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame's 2019 class as part of D-Generation X and was inducted for his individual career in the class of 2025. Outside of wrestling, he has appeared in acting with roles in Blade: Trinity (2004) and The Chaperone (2011).

Web Search Results

• Triple H

  Paul Michael Levesque (/ləˈvɛk/; born July 27, 1969), also known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive, professional wrestling promoter#Professional_Wrestling "Promoter (entertainment)") and retired wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as its chief content officer, head of creative, and is an executive producer. [...] | Ring name(s) | Hunter Hearst Helmsley Jean-Paul Lévesque Paul Levesque Paul "Triple H" Levesque Terra Risin' Terra Ryzing Terror Rising Triple H | | Billed height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | | Billed weight | 255 lb (116 kg) | | Billed from | Boston, Massachusetts Greenwich, Connecticut Sainte-Mère-Église, France | | Trained by | Killer Kowalski | | Debut | March 24, 1992 | | Retired | April 2, 2022 | | | | Signature | [...] Paul Michael Levesque was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, on July 27, 1969. He has a sister named Lynn. His first experience of watching professional wrestling was seeing a match involving Chief Jay Strongbow as a young child, and he took up bodybuilding at the age of 14 because he wanted to look like the professional wrestlers he saw. He graduated in 1987 from Nashua High School, where he played baseball and basketball. He continued to enter bodybuilding competitions and won the 1988 Mr.

• Triple H - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969) is an American business executive"), retired professional wrestler, actor, and former bodybuilder. He is better known by the ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of his former Hunter Hearst Helmsley name. He is currently the CCO ("Chief Content Officer") of WWE. [...] | Triple H | | --- | | Triple H in November 2017 | | | Born | Paul Michael Levesque (1969-07-27) July 27, 1969 (age 56) Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. | | Occupation(s) | Business executive, professional wrestler, actor | | Years active | 1992–2022 | | Employer | WWE | | Title | Executive Vice President of Talent, Live Events and Creative (2013–present) | | Spouse | Stephanie McMahon 2003–present | | Partner | Chyna (1996–2000) | | Children | 3 | | Family | McMahon") | [...] | Professional wrestling career | | | Ring name(s) | Hunter Hearst Helmsley Jean-Paul Lévesque Terra Ryzing Terra Risin' Terror Rising Triple H | | Billed height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | | Billed weight | 272 lb (123 kg) | | Billed from | Boston, Massachusetts Greenwich, Connecticut Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France") | | Trained by | Killer Kowalski") | | Debut | March 24, 1992 | | Retired | March 25, 2022 | | | |

• Paul Levesque - Biography

  Paul Levesque (known as Triple H) is an American business executive, professional wrestler, and actor. He has been the Executive Vice President of Talent, Live

• Paul "Triple H" Levesque, Patrick Talty | TED - YouTube

  From his electrifying entrances as a professional wrestler to his current work as WWE's chief content officer, Paul "Triple H" Levesque knows how to entertain a crowd. In this conversation with TEDSports co-chair Patrick Talty, Levesque pulls back the curtain on WWE's approach to storytelling, gives a peek at what's coming next and explains why pro wrestling belongs in the same conversation as the world's biggest sports. (Recorded at TEDSports Indianapolis 2025 on September 9, 2025) [...] built the business from the ground up. He is the visionary that saw this. You talk about our deals with ESPN. When Wrestlemania 1 happened, it was on closed circuit TV. We were pioneering the closed circuit TV industry. When pay-per-view came to be, Vince could see it going into every home. So, he had gone out and took over all the little territories and became the first sort of national global brand, pioneered the pay-per-view industry. And I've heard people say in that industry, pay-per-view [...] uh, you know, the athleticism, the sport, it's all there, but the entertainment aspect of it, it's all there. And, uh, we love what we do. Awesome. Paul Triple HC. Thank you.

• Triple H - WWE

  Outside of the ring, his first major success came during the creation of NXT, a developmental brand designed to build the future stars of WWE. As the lead creative mind along with the likes of Michaels, William Regal, Matt Bloom and others, Levesque created a transformative brand that has molded the brightest in-ring stars of the 21st century, including Charlotte Flair, Rhea Ripley, Becky Lynch and dozens more. What started as a developmental program has become a third WWE brand with its own [...] As The Connecticut Blue Blood, The King of Kings, The Cerebral Assassin, The Game and now the CCO, Levesque’s legendary career both in front of and behind the camera will be remembered for generations to come as he resides in the WWE Hall of Fame in the Class of 2025. ## Triple H: Latest News WWE Photo ## Get 2-Day Combo Tickets today for WrestleMania 42 WWE Photo ## WrestleMania 42 promo | Triple H, Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Brock Lesnar & Paul Heyman WWE Photo [...] Following his official retirement from in-ring competition at WrestleMania 38, he would go on to lead WWE’s creative operations as Chief Content Officer and ushered in a new era of success for WWE including a Netflix streaming deal and a merger to create the industry-leading TKO media group.