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00:00Just in case you've forgotten, I AM THE GAME!
00:08Behold the King of Kings, Triple H.
00:10An icon who graced the squared circle with talent so incredible,
00:13the story of WWE cannot be told properly without him.
00:17I'm Triple H!
00:18And with me, there is no hype necessary.
00:23To this day, his presence is still felt out of the ring,
00:26as the cerebral assassin's mind permeates WWE's every move.
00:31He's as deadly as they come, the cerebral assassin.
00:34With an intellect as impressive as his physical capabilities,
00:37the game is unquestionably a bona fide legend of professional wrestling.
00:41Today, we're looking back at all things King of Kings,
00:44as we delve into the illustrious career of Triple H.
00:49Are you brave?
00:52This is WWE's Greatest Moments.
00:58He's just a man!
01:00Oh my God, what the hell are you doing?
01:04Absolutely unbelievable!
01:06Welcome, baby, I'm in Israel.
01:14Welcome, everyone, to WWE's Greatest Moments.
01:17I'm Michael Cole.
01:19And on this edition, we're looking back at the very best of the game, Triple H.
01:46We are the Generation X.
01:49You make your rules, and we will break them!
01:53We are the Generation X.
01:54This year back injury would keep the Heartbreak Kid away from competition.
01:57It was time for Triple H to take the reins.
02:03Triple H of DX is gonna make a major announcement here tonight.
02:08At that time, D Generation X was the biggest faction in WWE, and it was hard to picture them without
02:13Shawn Michaels.
02:13This is the genesis of D Generation X.
02:21There were conversations with me about going forward with DX from there.
02:25When you start an army, you look to your friends.
02:30Well, look who's back!
02:32Hunter called me.
02:33He wanted to keep doing a DX thing.
02:34I was just happy it turned out as good as it did.
02:37One of my best friends in my entire life, Triple H, and he says, DX needs your help.
02:44So now you have Triple H, Chyna, and X-Pod.
02:48That's not all for that night, though.
02:50The New Age Outlaws have a tag match against Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie.
02:54And all of a sudden, DX shows up and interferes.
02:58That's DX! DX is here!
03:00And then we all got on all four corners of the cage after that.
03:04They're stronger than ever!
03:05There they were, Triple H's DX.
03:08Break it down!
03:09Oh, let's get rid of this sucker!
03:13That renewed DX very quickly went from a place of approaching everything from an angry heel standpoint
03:21to fans were mobbing us. The fans loved it.
03:25This is my DX, my army!
03:31In 2001, Triple H was at the top of his game.
03:34When you play the game, you will lose.
03:40Engulfed in a heated rivalry with the Texas Rattlesnake Stone Cold Steve Austin,
03:44these two would stop at nothing to take the other out.
03:46Triple H, right here, in this ring, in front of the world.
03:52I'm gonna beat your ass.
03:53This situation became so tumultuous that it required an entirely new type of match just to settle the score.
04:00A three stages of hell match.
04:05Three falls of hell for Austin in the game.
04:09Is Austin ready to play the game? That's the question!
04:12The regular match, it turned into a street fight and turned into a cage match.
04:16That was the first time that's been done.
04:18This whole issue built on nothing but pure hatred.
04:21To put those two together created a match of just magic.
04:26Stone Cold has beaten the game in the first fall!
04:30That was really cool because it's not just one stipulation, it's three of them.
04:34Now we're in a street fight phase.
04:36Look at him! Look at him!
04:38There's a certain magic that happened with me and Austin.
04:40Professionally a great part of my career.
04:43The sledgehammer rounded off to space!
04:46Now go for the pedigree!
04:48And that's the second five-god ball!
04:50And now we're going to the third ball!
04:53What are these guys gonna do?
04:54Seeing what they're capable of, you've seen what they've done to each other already!
04:57The game punishing Storm Cole, Steve Austin.
05:00Wait a minute, the game, look out!
05:03I think we went like 45 minutes.
05:05This is a marathon!
05:07Triple H has got the sledgehammer off to the two by four!
05:10They go!
05:11They both scored!
05:12They both hit each other!
05:13And the game falling back on Austin!
05:16Austin, wait a minute!
05:17Triple H has done it!
05:19Triple H won two out of three.
05:21This was a huge victory for Triple H.
05:26In 2015, Triple H and his wife Stephanie McMahon ruled the WWE with an iron fist as the authority.
05:32Anybody that defies our authority will drovel!
05:38Roman!
05:39However, his subjects wouldn't take kindly to such a merciless ruler.
05:42No, no, no, no, no, no!
05:44That's the boss!
05:45And the semi-retired King of Kings would suffer a vicious attack at the hands of Roman Reigns.
05:50Oh my god, what is he doing now?
05:51Stop him!
05:52Oh my god, he just speared Triple H through the floor!
05:56But as punishment for his actions, Reigns was forced to defend his WWE Championship in the number one spot of
06:02the Royal Rumble.
06:02It's one versus all.
06:05Outlasting many competitors, Roman Reigns looked to be on the verge of retaining his title.
06:10Roman Reigns is the only one standing in this match right now!
06:13Until he learned why you should never put your hands on the boss.
06:20Number 30 on his way!
06:25Oh my god!
06:34At this point in his career, Triple H really wasn't wrestling that often.
06:38For him to come out of the Royal Rumble, this was a huge surprise.
06:42We have not seen Triple H since Roman Reigns sent him to the hospital over a month ago!
06:47Here we go!
06:48He's not afraid to do whatever it takes to keep himself at the top.
06:54Roman Reigns eliminated!
06:56We are guaranteed to have a new champion!
07:00And it's gonna be Triple H or Dean Ambrose!
07:04Triple H over the top rope, Ambrose gonna do it!
07:06He hung on, he hung on!
07:08Ambrose eliminated!
07:09Triple H is a 14-time WWE Champion!
07:14To be able to be in there with Triple H, you lose to learn how to win, you know what
07:18I mean?
07:18So you have to go through some kind of struggle, some kind of adversity.
07:21What a great night for the Authority!
07:24The Rumble, it was incredible.
07:27It was everything it needed to be.
07:32When a king has lust for power, the best way to keep it is to surround yourself with trusted allies.
07:38Following a victory over his former friend Shawn Michaels at Armageddon 2002,
07:43He's the World Heavyweight Champion, JR!
07:46Triple H captured the World Heavyweight Championship once again, taking his rightful place atop the WWE Kingdom.
07:54From now on, when you call me out, you don't just get me!
08:00In February of 2003, the King of Kings introduced the WWE Universe to his new Royal Council.
08:11Wait a minute, what the hell is this?
08:13The World Heavyweight Champion, Triple H, and one of these other guys, Batista, and Blair and Orton.
08:18What are they doing out here?
08:19And what you see in this ring before you is the greatest example of evolution you will ever see.
08:26Evolution was sort of that next step in careers.
08:29Dave Batista, 6'5", 325 pounds!
08:35Hunter was the first guy to see something special in me.
08:39Randy Orton is the coal that will be squeezed into the next diamond.
08:45That's a huge part of what made me who I am.
08:50Triple H cutting that promo and forming Evolution was a monumental moment in his career.
08:56Evolution had an incredible run.
09:01The celebration is just about to begin! Evolution on top of the world!
09:07Triple H is really the architect here, setting them on that path.
09:11You've got two future world champions here, Randy Orton and Batista.
09:15And that may not have happened without Triple H.
09:18Because Hunter saw that there was something special about Randy Orton, my career took off.
09:24Hunter made my career.
09:26I was only as good as I was because of Hunter.
09:29So if you wake up one day and you're wondering what in the hell happened,
09:35Evolution has just passed you by.
09:41Triple H desired one thing.
09:43One thing that eluded him his whole career.
09:45The WWE Championship.
09:47And he would do nearly anything to get his shot.
09:50Now Mitch, I want your ass out here.
09:54I want what is mine.
09:56Or I am gonna break his arm.
09:59You don't have to threaten JR.
10:01You want a shot at this belt.
10:03All you had to do was ask.
10:07Triple H and Mankind, WWF Championship on the line.
10:13Shane McMahon who appointed himself the referee to this match.
10:16He's on the precipice of greatness.
10:19But he still hadn't had that decisive moment.
10:24Nick was instrumental in putting a stamp of toughness to Triple H.
10:30And now Triple H takes advantage.
10:32Did you see that?
10:33Double teamed.
10:34That night was pretty much the most important thing in my life at that point.
10:38Pedigree time.
10:39He got it.
10:40Triple H with a pedigree.
10:42This is unbelievable.
10:43Will it be?
10:44Will it be?
10:45Triple H!
10:46Triple H!
10:47Triple H!
10:49Guys inside the business will joke about it.
10:50Like there's a moment when you win that title for the first time where it's all real.
10:54And you sort of get that feeling.
10:57Triple H has realized his dream.
11:00He is now the World Wrestling Federation Champion.
11:05With the help of his mentor Triple H, Randy Orton evolved from a champion to a vicious viper that gained
11:10a lust for the spotlight.
11:12In 2009, Orton won the Royal Rumble and chose to face his former ally Triple H for the WWE Championship
11:18at WrestleMania 25.
11:21Triple H, I have taken everything from you except the WWE title.
11:30All bets were off, but the game decided to make a house call.
11:37Triple H, I gave you too much credit.
11:40You're not the competitor that I thought you were.
11:42You're not even the man that I thought you were.
11:45Randy Orton's doing the interview at his house.
11:47And then all of a sudden...
11:49Award me the title!
11:51I don't...
11:51Wait, stop!
11:52Samantha, don't get the door!
11:54It doesn't get any more personal than someone invading your room.
11:59Working with Triple H, always next level experience.
12:04It was just a chaotic moment.
12:06I mean, Triple H is just destroying this guy at his house.
12:12People were really absorbed at this emotionally charged angle.
12:16It was intense and they could buy into that.
12:20He attacked me!
12:21Come here!
12:21He attacked me!
12:23The year 2000 was the end of a millennium.
12:26But it was also the beginning of a whole new game.
12:29Triple H has won the World Wrestling Federation Championships!
12:33No one was taking that gold from the King of Kings.
12:37Not even the King of Hardcore.
12:39Cactus Jack, the most sadistic wrestler of all time,
12:43was hell-bent on capturing the prize that Triple H held so dearly.
12:46You accept my stipulation, I will put my entire 15-year career on the line!
12:56Hell in the Cell!
13:04Somebody's gonna walk out of here with a WWF title!
13:07The matches they had were brutal.
13:09The Hell in the Cell match takes it to another level.
13:23And then the building just came alive.
13:27And as soon as they come alive, it registers.
13:30I promised these people I was going on top of that cell again.
13:36The crowd chanting, Bowling!
13:40I don't know how high we are, but we're high.
13:42Seems a lot higher when you're up there.
13:45Jerry Lawler says...
13:46What could be worse than a 2x4 wrapped in barbed wire?
13:49Boom!
13:50That thing lights up.
13:54He's gonna pound drive him on the fire!
13:57Oh my God!
13:59For the love of God!
14:01The case broke!
14:02The ring broke!
14:03And Captain Jack has broke the impact!
14:07That's Mick's playground.
14:09And Hunter walked in there and beat him.
14:13What more can you do as a heel than take a lovable character
14:16and force him to then retire?
14:19Mick Foley's career is over, folks.
14:21For my career, it meant the world.
14:25It's about one thing!
14:27It's about me!
14:30On an episode of Sunday Night Heat in 1999, Triple H sat down with Jim Ross to get something heavy
14:36off his chest and make an emphatic statement to the WWE Universe, reminding them of who he was.
14:45What, you want me to shoot with this interview?
14:47I'm gonna shoot with it.
14:48I'm gonna tell you how I feel, whether you like it or not.
14:51The interview with Jim Ross, that's a very real interview.
14:56Everything that came out of Hunter's mouth was the truth.
15:00I don't need anybody else, JR.
15:03This is about me.
15:04I don't need to be in a clique anymore.
15:07I don't need to be in DX anymore.
15:09It's about me reaching my goals.
15:11There's moments in time where you can just sit down with somebody and be real.
15:15Not having to be projecting on a microphone to a large crowd.
15:19You guys talk about being students of the game.
15:22I am the f***ing game, JR.
15:25I said the game moniker for the first time just off the cuff.
15:30Just happened to say it.
15:31I knew that we had heard something special.
15:35There is nobody that eats, sleeps, or breathes this business more than me.
15:40And now it's my time to prove that to the world.
15:44I knew that was a pivotal moment for me to get across what I was looking for from the business.
15:52I was no longer Hunter Hearst-Helmsley.
15:54I was just the game.
15:55It was a different conversation.
15:57But when it's said and done, it's about me getting what I deserve in this business,
16:02and that is becoming the WWF champion.
16:08A king is dangerous when they are hungry for glory,
16:11but can be even more ruthless when motivated by revenge.
16:15After watching the career of his best friend Shawn Michaels end when he failed to conquer The Undertaker at WrestleMania
16:2026.
16:21The Undertaker is 18-0.
16:24Shawn Michaels' career is over.
16:28Triple H set his sights on the dead man the following year, but he too came up short.
16:32We have seen two men go through an excursion through hell.
16:36With The Undertaker offering him one more shot in immortality, and HBK as a special guest referee,
16:42we would witness the phenom in the game wage war inside two tons of harrowing steel.
16:52There have been 24 Hell in a Cell matches in history.
16:57These two men have been in 19 of them.
17:01Our names are synonymous with that match.
17:05Those carcinogenic right hands of The Undertaker.
17:09So debilitating.
17:10Three guys that had been in the trenches together for all of it.
17:14Having our last shot on the front lines together.
17:17Oh, my God.
17:18He beat me with that chair like I owed him money.
17:22Oh, no. Oh, no.
17:24He is truly superhuman.
17:27How's he doing this?
17:29Oh, my God.
17:31At two and a half, he kicks.
17:33Oh, my God.
17:34I can't believe what I'm seeing.
17:36That's one of my favorite moments of my entire career.
17:40Look at this.
17:41My God, we know what that means.
17:43Yes, we do.
17:45The sign of the disaster.
17:48And the three.
17:51I knew that we had just finished something that was going to be so special that would last
17:57through the animals of time in our industry.
18:00An image that we will all remember forever.
18:06We have now reached our number one moment.
18:08One that would define the grit and determination of the King of Kings.
18:122001 saw Triple H running at peak performance.
18:15But everything would come to a screeching halt in May of that year.
18:19When the game suffered a career-threatening injury in the form of a torn quad.
18:23The WWE Universe questioned if this was the end of the game.
18:28A horrible break.
18:30For nearly eight grueling months, Triple H put his body through hell
18:34to make it back to where he was meant to be inside the squared circle.
18:37It was time for the game to restart.
18:54One of the loudest guarding ovations that I've ever heard.
18:57That's what you live for.
18:59It has been eight more months of hellacious rehabilitation.
19:05I just have to prove to everybody that I can still do this.
19:08Every moment of hell that he went through was thinking about this very night.
19:15Just in case you've forgotten, I am the game.
19:23It's Madison Square Garden with the most passionate WWE fans in the whole entire world.
19:28And Triple H got to make his comeback there.
19:30And it was with me, which was crazy.
19:33What the hell is this idiot?
19:35Kurt Angle, the audacity to interrupt this man's return.
19:38Who the hell do you think you are?
19:43Look at the game with those big old right hands.
19:45Look at the face of the pompous Kurt Angle.
19:48Get out of there Kurt.
19:49Look at the game.
19:50Look at the game.
19:51He's in great shape.
19:52Oh no.
19:52Oh no.
19:53Look at the big.
19:54Pedigree.
19:55Pedigree.
19:56Pedigree.
19:57Triple H gave me the pedigree and there he was man.
20:01He was back in the game.
20:02The game looks better than ever.
20:05Just everything about it.
20:07Fairytale.
20:08You can bet your ass I'm back.
20:13No man alive could stop Triple H from conquering the impossible.
20:17As he would stack win after win, claim title after title.
20:20All the while cementing his legacy in professional wrestling.
20:23He's the game.
20:24And he's that damn good.
20:26Well that'll do it for this edition of WWE's Greatest Moments.
20:29Hope you've enjoyed this look back at the best of the King of Kings, Triple H.
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