Today is the birthday of Triple H, AKA HHH, The Cerebral Assassin, The Game, The Wrestling Aristocrat, The Connecticut Blueblood, Aristocrat of the Mat, and The King of Kings.
His real name is Paul Michael Levesque (French- pronounced Levec).
He turns 40 today. He was born on July 27, 1969, in Nashua, New Hampshire.
HHH started out in wrestling in the early nineties, under the names of Terra Ryzing,and later Jean-Paul Levesque in WCW.
He came to the then WWF in 1995, and competed under the name Hunter Hearst Helmsley, which was later abbreviated to HHH or Triple H near the end of the nineties.
He was one half (or one third) of the founding members of the famous group of DeGeneration X, along with Shawn Michaels, and his bodyguard Chyna in 1997. Legendary Rick Rude also teamed with them at one point. When Shawn retired for four years in 1998, HHH went on to be the leader and recruit other wrestlers like X-Pac, The Road Dogg Jesse James, Billy Gunn, and Tori (not Wilson).
Before that he had also been in the Kliq with Shawn Michaels, and other good friends of his, including Razor Roman (Scott Hall), Diesel (Kevin Nash), and the 123 Kid (Sean Waltman).
In 2000 he reinvented himself as The Game, a nickname which he claims was once supposed to be Owen Hart's before he died. He went on to defeat and retire Mick Foley that year.
There have been several reformations of DeGeneration X with Shawn Michaels. There was one brief one in 2002 but ended with HHH turning on Shawn. Then in 2006 and 2007 there was a "Reunion Tour" which saw the two team up together once again. Between 2002 and 2006, the two feuded heavily.
HHH is a thirteen time heavyweight champion (WWE and World Heavyweight), as well as a triple crown and grand slam champion, as well as a Royal Rumble winner and a King of the Ring. He's pretty much done it all.
Not to mention he's Vince McMahon's son-in-law, having married Stephanie McMahon years ago. He has two children.
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