'When it is done well, there's no greater form of entertainment in the world,' Paul Levesque says of professional wrestling
Including Johnson, Levesque has had rivalries with almost every superstar who walked through the WWE’s doors in the last two decades. He’s gone toe-to-toe with legends such as The Undertaker, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Mick Foley, and his longtime friend, Shawn Michaels.
But what made the character of Triple H so unique is that for much of his career, despite being a ruthless, backstabbing villain, he’s remained a crowd favorite — and it has made for some truly compelling television. But this fandom around Triple H is a testament to Levesque’s dedication to the “artistic performance show” that is professional wrestling.“I think to me — and I still feel this way to this day — that when it is done well, there’s no greater form of entertainment in the world,” he says.
“It hits all your senses,” he adds. “To be able to get in a ring and then almost tell a Shakespearean story through physicality, it just encompasses everything that is entertaining to me and it still does to this day.” Today Levesque finds himself in a suit working behind-the-scenes as WWE’s executive vice president of global talent strategy and development, a position that has allowed him to help cultivate the next generation of WWE superstars through the company’s developmental show,
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