WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque took part in the WWE Royal Rumble post-show and discussed several topics, including being surprised during the recent town hall meeting regarding his upcoming induction into the 2025 WWE Hall of Fame class.

“Nick and I talked about the Hall of Fame many time and he would always bring up the fact that, when are we going to put you in, and I would say not now, because now matter how I do it, it looks like I am putting myself in the Hall of Fame, and I’m just not going to do that, so he said we have to do it eventually, and I was like okay, if we have to do it eventually, let’s wait three, four, five years and then we’ll talk about it and he said okay.

We had an entirely different plan for the Hall of Fame and we got to the end of the town hall and Shawn’s music hit and I thought honestly, being lazy that I didn’t read the end of the town hall run sheet and there was more after the Q&A that I just didn’t see, and I was like oh, Shawn’s going to come out here and talk about the new show that we’re doing, LFG, and put that over, so I was confused when Shawn came out and when Taker came out it doubled, then I saw Nick walk to the other side of the room and I realized that somehow this is going to effect me, I wasn’t sure positively, negatively, humorously until Taker said WrestleMania.

I’ll be honest, we did it with DX, it was a lot of fun, it’s different when it’s you, and while I’ve been a part of all of these and I’ve seen some talent see it as the biggest honor, I’ve seen other talent be like eh whatever, but for the most part, our talent all see it as sort of the ultimate pay of respect to you and your career, and I’ve had the honor of calling a lot of people to tell them we’re going to induct you into the Hall of Fame, or be there in-person to say to them we’re going to induct you into the Hall of Fame, and watch them cry, and watch them get emotional, because of our passion for what we do.

It hit me way harder than I thought it would, so when we left there, it was a kind of oddly comical and surreal moment, and then Taker was there and Shawn was there and we went straight upstairs and went into a meeting and everything else, and as it slowly started to dawn on me, I thought like, here we go, that same moment that I have watched everybody else have, the emotions flooding over you, your career, the people you’ve worked with, what it meant to you, the fans, the moments that you’ve been able to create and share, fortunately for me, I’m not out of the business. I have maybe a more enjoyable point of my life in being able to watch these guys do it now and help them get there and put it all together, but it was emotional.”

The full post-show is available at this link.