- Hey, this is The Game, Triple H
with the WWE.
I am here today at FBE to,
oddly enough,
react to people reacting to me.
- (Michael) Sweet Chin Music
into a Pedigree!
- (Johnny) Boom!
- This one was a tough one,
because we'd both 
been gone for so long,
and while it was fun 
to be out there with them
and in front of that many people,
and doing this one more time,
you put a lot of pressure on yourself
late in your career,
25 years in, or however long you're in
to be able to still do
what you do at the level you did it at
25 years earlier,
and it just, that doesn't happen
that way sometimes.
This was one of those ones.
It was bittersweet in a way.
- (Johnny) Oh man!
- This was one of my,
you know, one of my 
favorite storylines we did.
Randy Orton and I
had a long history with each other
from Evolution all the way through,
and there was a moment
where I went after him
in his home.
- (Seth) It's really a precursor
to a lot of the cinematic matches
we've seen recently in
WWE pay-per-view,
because of the pandemic 
and stuff like that.
- We've been doing 'em for years,
whether it was Austin and Booker
in the grocery store, or whatever.
It's always memorable for us as talent
when you get to go 
into somebody's house,
or a house that they're renting
and just destroy it.
- (Seth) If Triple H shows up
in my backyard,
we're gonna have a problem,
I'll tell you that.
He'll be the one going
through my window,
I got a pregnant woman 
in here dang it!
No danger, alright?
- I'm more worried about Becky
than I am about Seth.
She's pregnant, she's tired,
all that stuff.
She'll beat the two of us up.
- (Michael) Has turned his back
on X-Pac!
- (Johnny) Shame, shame, shame!
- (Michael) Right over Shane!
- (Jerry) What?
- (Charlotte) 'Cause he wasn't scared
to be a bad guy.
The ultimate bad guy.
- (Sasha) Triple H is such 
a good bad guy,
like, you wanna hate him
at all times.
- It's funny for me,
in my career,
I always gravitated towards that
as a fan.
The bad guys were always
more interesting to me,
and more intriguing characters.
It always seemed like it was
so much more fun to portray that.
For me, it's just easier
to see the things that bother people
and then be able to do those things,
if you're not afraid to do them.
- (Shawn) He had the passion
and the desire,
and the drive to feel
like he was good enough
and he deserved his opportunity,
and that clip you just showed
was sort of in that era for him.
- That was a very controversial time
for me, within the WWE landscape.
As the Rock was becoming,
and Austin were becoming
these key good guys,
I knew that without the bad guy
in those scenarios,
the good guys aren't as good
as they need to be.
I went to Vince,
I pitched this,
I wanna flip,
and I wanna turn on the group.
I wanna turn heel,
and I wanna do this,
and they just didn't get it.
It caused a lot of strong
conversations to happen
with all of us about, you know,
God no, don't do that yet.
Not yet, ride this out
until it's done, man.
We have so much more legs on this.
One of the big lessons,
I think, that Vince taught me
all throughout my career
and even to this day
is if you believe 
in what you're doing,
be willing to gamble on yourself.
(crowd cheers)
- (Johnny) Oh, this is when DX
gets back together.
- (Jim) And Michaels, 
bad knee and all!
- (Stephanie) Coming in for the save!
- (Montez) You wanna do this?
Do you wanna do this?
- (Angelo) Let's go!
- (Montez) Yeah, let's go!
- (Angelo) Suck it!
For me, personally, I don't know 
if I'm allowed to say this,
but hey, when I was a kid,
I know how many detentions I got
for you know,
telling people to suck it.
- It just brings me back
to me being a talent
and sitting, watching Flair
and Dusty Rhodes,
and everybody that I watched
growing up,
and knowing what that meant to me
and how it inspired me
to get in the business.
I have talent say it to me
all the time.
Oh my God, you know,
you're part of the reason
why I got in the business
or something.
It's the biggest honor you can have.
- (Shawn) When we got together
as D-Generation X,
it was something that was
just an absolute blast to be a part of
because you knew you were
doing something very different
and very outside of the norm.
People either really loved it,
but a lot of the traditionalists 
really hated it.
- When we formed DX,
we were breaking a mold
that, as Shawn said,
a lot of people 
really resisted and hated.
We would do stuff in the ring
and it was just very spontaneous
to him and I,
and we would just riff off each other,
and when we'd come back,
be like oh my God,
I can't believe you did that,
or vice versa.
You could tell the people
that it angered,
and when we'd come back,
and you could tell the people
that thought it was funny.
- (Jim) Showing his 
competitive spirit here!
- (Angelo) Oh!
- (Montez) Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
- (Angelo) Helmsley, oh!
- (Johnny) That's the most
amazing thing to me,
'cause they've heard
the name Triple H so long,
they don't even know what
Hunter Hearst Helmsley means.
- There's a moment when 
the Attitude Era begins to launch
where, you know, the characters
are kind of going out the window,
and it's becoming larger than life
versions of you,
and just much more attitude driven
and all that,
and I remember Vince coming to me
and saying like
look, what do you wanna do with this?
And I wanted to morph
out of the character slowly,
become something more, because
we were gonna do DX with Shawn.
I didn't wanna change the name,
because I had so much time
and energy invested already
in this Hunter Hearst Helmsley guy
that it felt like, to just say
that was all garbage,
and forget it, I'm a different guy now
seemed wrong, so,
everybody backstage,
Shawn, Kevin Nash, Hall,
they all called me Triple H,
and I think it was Shawn that
actually called me that the first time.
And so the suggestion was made, just
stick with the nickname, it works.
- (Stephanie) Oh, this is priceless.
- (Hunter) Knocking on that door!
- (Johnny) I knew, I knew!
It's the whole deal,
it's all of 'em, there you go!
- I knew about it before
getting to the building that day,
and I remember Billy and Dogg
and Kid coming to me going like
there's a whole bunch of army stuff
with our logos on it,
what are we doing?
And I was like, so Vince made me swear
that I would not say anything
to you guys until he did,
but trust me, this is epic.
We're about to change
the entire industry, man.
- (Adam) For DX to show up
at WCW's door,
I was like what is happening?
- It's hard for people 
to understand today
how much that moment
changed the business.
That was a moment in time
sort of where you didn't 
acknowledge the other guys.
- (Stephanie) One of his 
best entrances!
- (Angelo) Every entrance matters
because you gotta get everybody
who's tuning in
and take 'em on a journey.
- For me, the pageantry, 
the entrances,
the way things are lit,
the music,
everything that leads you 
to these fights to me,
is as big as the fight.
You know, you put 
a lot of thought into these,
and I've seen sometimes people
think oh, it's just all about
me trying to build grandeur on myself,
well it was,
it was about the story of the match
and the characters,
and trying to make them
as epic and big as possible.
- (Seth) Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I see some familiar faces there.
- (Adam) That's Alexa Bliss,
Charlotte Flair, and Sasha Banks,
all right there!
- (Sasha) Legit told all of us
that we were going to have
this moment of our own one day,
and just what, a year and half later,
two years later,
we're all debuting on Raw,
we're all like champions.
- (Charlotte) It was so cool
when he told us in the gear,
and being a part of it,
we were like this is our biggest
WrestleMania moment ever!
The fact that now I've had
my four or five WrestleManias,
just at that moment,
like, I didn't have to do anything.
How does he do this?
- Probably one of my favorite
entrances of all time.
Not because of the, I mean,
because I thought it was very cool,
but also having them
out there with me doing that.
Being able to share 
that stage with them
and give them that experience
as knowing where they're
about to go with their lives
and their careers
was awesome.
- (Jerry) Oh, JR!
- (Johnny) That was the return, yep!
- (Jerry) This is it!
- (Johnny) The loudest reaction 
I've ever heard.
- (Adam) This is my personal favorite
Triple H moment.
- For me, that was a moment that,
if I could have written
the whole thing,
I couldn't have done it any better
or would've done it any differently.
The moment was incredible.
- (Sasha) You know you get
some goosebumps when you return, dad.
- (Charlotte) I can't image
what that sounded like there.
Like to be backstage
or to be him,
and that's gotta feel good
as a performer.
- This is, you know,
nine months give or take
after an injury where I tore my quad,
and didn't just tear my quad,
but like, completely blew apart
the entire capsule of my knee.
I don't care who you are,
when you come back from
something like that,
you think, well I hope they,
at least give a crap and remember.
I remember even 
standing in the curtain,
they chanted the entire time
during the commercial break
before I came out,
and still thinking
please give a crap
when my music hits.
- (Jim) For God's sakes!
- (Stephanie) Oh yes!
The turn.
- (Adam) Stephanie!
- (Jim) What?
Oh God!
- (Sasha) This is so juicy!
- (Jim) What is this?
- (Seth) Young babyface Stephanie.
It's so cute now,
but at the time, it was very devious.
- It's funny, because Steph and I
were just, you know,
we didn't really know each other then,
and we were put into 
a working situation with each other.
The storyline being what it is,
and we always say our marriage
works so well,
'cause we had a dry run on TV.
- (Stephanie) That is when
I turned on my father,
and joined forces
with the evil Triple H.
That was the moment
that started it all, right?
Here we are, married,
with three kids,
and if that moment never happened,
who knows where we would be today?
- It was a surreal moment,
and it wasn't really expected to go
the way that it did,
it was expected to be just
kind of a big swerve
to get out of a different storyline.
The whole thing was just 
so unheard of and shocking
that it blew people's mind,
and she was so good in the role.
Especially as being this young,
fresh faced innocent girl
to all of a sudden being this just
devious manipulator.
It really made everything work.
- (FBE) So this year marks
the 25th anniversary
of Triple H in the WWE.
Can you talk a little bit about
what Triple H has 
meant for you, personally.
- (Seth) Oh, personally for me,
Triple H has, you know,
he's been there through it all.
If it weren't for Triple H,
there would be no Seth Rollins
as you know him today.
- (Sasha) I kinda owe
my whole career to him,
because I wouldn't have 
the opportunity if he didn't care.
- It's just humbling
to see, you know,
people and performers
that are such big stars
that one, saw you in that light,
and you know,
saw you as they were coming up
and trying to get into the business,
much like I did with people
that were before me,
and then to think that they think
that I'm even just a small part
of the reason why they get
where they are
is incredible and humbling.
- (Shawn) I've been able to
make an awful, you know,
wonderful living,
one, doing what I love to do
and then getting to do it
side by side with your best friend.
That is absolutely 
an unbelievable thing.
- My life revolves around 
this business in a lot of ways.
So to be able to do the day-to-day
business stuff with my wife,
to then be doing what we're
doing together at the NXT,
and the Performance Center,
it's funny because in a lot of ways,
I feel like I just get to be
a giddy kid
sitting next to my best friend,
I don't know, 
running a wrestling promotion,
so to speak, almost like 
it's a video game
or something like that,
except it's real life.
- (FBE) So finally, if Triple H
were watching this right now,
what would you want 
to say to him?
- (Sheamus) Tell him not to
get a big head,
I'll still knock the [censored]
out of him.
That WrestleMania victory
was a fluke,
you can tell him that.
- It's a fluke, tell him I don't,
tell him I don't remember it,
because he kicked me
so hard in the head.
- (Charlotte) I'm forever grateful
for the confidence
he instilled in my dad
and gave back to him,
and just giving me 
the opportunity at NXT,
which changed my life.
- I appreciate the fact that
people say oh,
I instilled his confidence
back in him.
I just told him he was Ric Flair.
I just looked at him every day
and I thought Jesus,
this is Ric Flair, the greatest 
in-ring performer of his generation,
and he had forgotten it,
and everybody else saw it but him
and I just helped him remember.
- (Stephanie) I couldn't be 
more proud of you.
I love you so much.
You deserve every celebration
25 years of this iconic career,
and I can't wait for the next 25.
- That's awesome.
(laughs) It's a funny thing,
because it's a little bit past now,
I feel like I've been celebrating
the 25 for 25.
It's nice, in a way,
it's like your birthday
all the way up until the birthday
the following year.
- What is it like to see
these superstars
talk about you like this,
not only just share memories,
but talk about what impact
you've had on their careers?
- It's humbling.
It really, really, is.
In some ways, it makes you feel old.
You know, when people tell you,
oh I watched you when I was a kid,
and you're the reason why
I got in the business
or something like that,
it's like well thank you, I think?
All of those people,
whether it's Sheamus,
whether it's Adam Cole,
whether it's the Street Profits,
whether it's Sasha, Charlotte,
so many.
As satisfying as your career is,
it's like doing all those things
and it being wonderful for you,
and then your kids come along
and you watch them have that success
and you watch them live their dreams
and have that success.
It's almost more rewarding.
- So what would you like to say
to those in the WWE Universe
who have been watching you
for all these years?
- Thank you.
They give us the privilege,
I'm trying not to get emotional.
They give the privilege
to do what we do.
Thank you for every cheer,
every boo,
everything you threw at me,
everything you,
horrible things that were said
because I deserve them.
Hopefully now, I'm making generations,
or helping to give the opportunity
to generations, more talent,
that can continue to deliver
a product that is worthy
of your passion for WWE.
Once again, thank you
for all of this.
It's been an epic 25 year ride
at this point.
If you're watching this,
you know where to follow.
You know how to follow.
Support NXT, it is the future 
of this business.
We're creating the stars of tomorrow
for you, for the generation after you,
and for generations to come.
Thank you for watching.
