Triple H ‘totally good’ with being retired from WWE in-ring competition

Paul “Triple H” Levesque has no desire to get back in the ring.

It’s been nearly five years since WWE’s Chief Content Officer has wrestled a match. In 2021, Levesque suffered a “cardiac event” that led to him announcing his retirement from in-ring competition. The near-death experience left Levesque with a defibrillator in his chest.

During a Friday appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, the 54-year-old Levesque was asked if he could physically wrestle again if the story called for it. 

“I don’t think so,” Levesque responded. “I don’t think I should be out there taking bumps around. Like, look, I’ve got a jumpstarter, right? So that’s all good. That’s a backup system if anything goes bad in your life, which could happen to anybody at any given time. So I’ve got a backup system – you don’t want to unplug the wires.”

Levesque added that being retired from the ring is something that he’s totally fine with.

“I’m totally good with that. I rode it until the wheels fell off – almost literally. I’m great with that,” he said. “And I was at a place where I should have been retiring anyways. I was in a place in my mind where I wanted to be done with it.”

Before his cardiac event, Levesque was approached about wrestling at WrestleMania 38. He thought about the idea but was going to decline it.

Levesque did appear in front of the crowd at WrestleMania 38 in April 2022, leaving his boots in the ring as he officially put an end to his in-ring career.

The final match of Levesque’s career took place in Japan in 2019. He teamed with Shinsuke Nakamura against Samoa Joe & Robert Roode at a WWE house show.

Levesque told McAfee that, as much as he enjoyed competing, he almost likes the behind-the-scenes side of WWE more.

“Helping these guys and girls, watching them go out there and succeed, watching them take something that they love and is a passion of theirs and go beyond their wildest dreams and getting what they want. To me, that’s more exciting than the physical aspect of it,” Levesque said.