Triple H - Why I Started Using the Pedigree
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- WWE legend Triple H tells the story of why he started using the pedigree as his finisher. Taken from "Triple H - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?": • Triple H - Wikipedia: ...
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It’s so great to hear Hunter talk about his career like this. So glad he was able to have a fantastic run and walk away from it. Truly one of the greats.
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You're absolutely right, I love listening to him telling stories of the industry's past. I guess I deeply respect his being able to carve a spot for himself as a heel which was very much needed as opposition to those rising babyface giants of Austin and Rock
Probably I'm really fascinated with the heels' journeys where they had to embrace being despised and working towards it. In this regard I really hope someday MJF will have the privilege of working under Hunter's direction, they would create some of the hottest heat in history
@@molotovmutt3365I mean hell you see what he’s doing with Dom ..OMG MJF x Triple H = Heel On Overload 🤦🏽♂️🔥🤞🏾🤞🏾
Doesn't mean he doesn't have skeletons that will become controversies at some point. I mean, everyone knew Vince was a terrible person who did awful things but it still took 40 years for any of it to become public. Give it time.
Mick Foley is one of the best sellers of the pedigree. That one pedigree against Mankind is still one of the most brutal looking pedigree ever.
Thats because he would fall horizontal face first rather than on his knees
Got nothing on Marty Garner's sell.
@@guyverjay1289 That's how you're supposed to land. Foley, Angle, Jericho always took it like they're supposed to.
Cause he would actually take the REAL deal pedigree haha
This was a brutal move to take when he used to hold the arms the whole down during the drop. It wasnt til mid 2000s or so when he eased up by releasing the arms.
Michael Hayes really is a savior to every wrestler's career by letting them the freedom they deserves to have some of the iconic finishers like RKO, Pedigree, even the Stone Cold Stunner.
Diamond Cutter > RKO
I think the Stunner came Hayes's pal Jimmy Garvin.
Paul Michael Triple H Levesque is deceiver big cheater man just read his dark history to know who he is
He gave them other people's finishers, so funny how sheep act tho keep on ba ba ba ba
Paul seems like such a chill dude man, I'm glad he's doing well for himself after that scary incident. Stay safe man! You're definitely the pinnacle when it came to heels during the attitude era.
Paul is Hunter right?
@@thomashester2 yes his real name is Paul Levesque
I met Paul backstage in 2003 he was super nice and every event I went to he would recognize me and come over to say hi
If by chill you mean a back stabbing, ass kissing racist then yeah he's a pretty chill dude
@@S.T.A.N.D_inspirational HHH said in an interview in 2000, "most times, the bad guys are the nicest guys backstage, and the good guys aren't."
Glad you had a good moment with him. Was he intimidating?
Him talking about how he introduced the Pedigree reminds of one of Steve Austin's podcasts with Heyman about people being too scared to really think for themselves or push back against bad ideas. Triple H knew the Pedigree was good but WWF wanted him to do a different move. He wasn't sure about it but gave it a try. It didn't turn out good, he knew it needed changed, and he showed them the move he actually wanted to do.
More of these young wrestlers need to learn from their predecessors.
Or y’know. Upstairs need to learn from from past mistakes and let talent have some sort of creative over their character.
@@xMikeyHardyx Then the wrestlers need to show upstairs that their ideas suck and the wrestler's ideas rock. Again, they need to not simply be sheep that bow to whatever management wants.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 bruv have you not heard the horror stories from the AEW roster from when they worked for Vince?
Aew is what happens when wrestlers are allowed to do whatever they want 🤮. Definitely needs to be balance
everybody acting as though the sponsors who give wwe all their money arent more important than giving superstars creative freedom. it's hard to balance the business end of wrestling, wwe has sponsors that dont even want to see blood on their network cuz it promotes hardcore violence (sure it makes no sense cuz wrestling is violence) but you cant really blame wwe for trying to ensure everything always falls under the bracket of what the sponsors want
Iconic finisher just like his spine busters just pure perfection 👌
Triple H's character is the coolest in my opinion because he put so much into its development. Hunter Hearst Helmley. A blue blood aristocrat in the style of Talleyrand. Pedigree fitted. Yet as he evolved into a hated but fierce villain, he kept the name and abbreviated HHH into Triple H.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Triple H was my favorite wrestler growing up. I thought he was so cool.
Shawn Michaels is the only member of the Kliq whose finish didn't involve his opponent's head between his legs.
I thought Razors Edge the opponent was on Scott Halls back?
@@theofficialgreenkane it starts like any other power bomb or pile driver, though- with the other guy's head between his legs
@@theofficialgreenkane yea but it starts off like a powerbomb
No it's not
@@theofficialgreenkane Look how it starts brother.
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Surprisingly 1 of the better HHH interview clips on a random rock channel. I had never heard him talk about his WCW days. Man I bet when he became "The Game" Eric Bishoff was like "fuck my life"
Cool story like hearing him tell stories as well
That country accent from HHH is something I didn’t know I needed to hear lmao
lol he's from New Hampshire
pedigree always been a unique move to me i never seen it before hhh and never after (obviously rollins used it) but never seen it used by other ppl and its a great finish
Punk used to use a top rope version as a finish in his ROH days
@@Justinjubes never watched roh
Of course you never seen it before. Because HHH created the move. It's his.
@@Speedyreedy1218 Andre the Giant invented that move and the tombstone also
@@korbindallas7310 He didn't invent the pedigree. They are not the same thing at all.
gru knowing his wrestling moves. hunter being kind calling his first finisher an RKO and graham calling it a cutter
HHH is awesome. Love watching him even as a heel
This dude does incredible interviews. Would love to see a sit down with all the attitude era guys telling stories.
Dustin and Cody Rhodes tell some of the best stories.
Yeah about how he cheated on his fiancé Chyna, had her new husband Stephanie get daddycakes to fire her AND blackball her from every wrestling promotion, and the of course see her kill herself. Then he can talk about how himself(hhh-the Gay-maa!!) & the shitstain kid Shawn Michelle used, walked on, ridiculed, humiliated, and ruined the careers of. Yeah that would be EPIC! The GAY-MAA, the Cerebral-naa Assissin-naaa! The butt-taa kisser-raa of Vincent-taa Mc🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓!
Remember Vince loves 🐓❤🐓😍🐓💖🐓❣🐓💕🐓❤🐓!!
Rock ,Austin, taker, hhh and hbk would be nice
You'd get a load of bullsh#t
That’s incredible. Triple H really did pay his dues to become one of the best that ever did it. I appreciate all the work he’s done 💯💯💯💯🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
hhh thinks people like us shouldnt be world champs
@jordan bailey I honestly don’t believe that. I mean for his character it fits because he’s greater as a heel than a baby face. But he’s had greater success running NXT than Vince had running Raw and Smackdown. On NXT everybody has a chance to become champ. I know it’s not world champ, but at least it prepares them to transition to the main brand and become a world champion.
@@kaibricturner8836 have you not heard the th spanish announce team speaking about hhh making racist jokes to their faces or mark henry talk about hhh and hbk's "hazing" antics black face on tv what else bro
@jordan bailey You have your own thoughts and feelings about the man and that’s fine, but I’m a fan of his and I’m gonna always be a fan. The same goes with Shawn Michaels. I’m sure everyone in that business has something they’d like to erase at some point in time because certain things don’t age well. We see it in film, television and literature. On camera and behind the scenes. Mark Henry has the right to feel how he feels and so does Booker T. I’m a fan of those guys too. It takes time to grow out of old habits and behaviors and some take longer than others. So I don’t hold a grudge over Shawn and Hunter. They’re all hard working guys who’ve dedicated to their lives to the art of pro wrestling and put the necessary time and effort in to hone their skills for it. They have my respect and that’s all I want to show.
By paying his dues do you mean marrying the bosses daughter and kissing the boss between the cheeks?
I wish I can meet him in person and thank him for giving my childhood the best wrestling moments
I love hearing the shoot videos. They make me more interested in wrestling.
I miss his long hair, I miss his DX controversy, and I'll miss his wrestling career
Me too
Same bro im just glad i was able to see it🙏🏾
He would look ridiculous at this point in his life if he still had the long hair. Same goes for Michaels, way too much hair loss to be able to pull off long hair at their ages.
Fr I hated him so much as a kid now I want him back
@@GabagoolGang Then he did job well.
The hardway pedigree was just undoubtedly one of the best finishers of all time, it's a shame that the damage to his knees/quads meant the move had to change. Foley taking the move will always be my favourite
That one guy got spiked I think his first pedigree
It’s amazing how the most smallest details of a character can really define who a wrestler is
It would be to see HHH have his own podcast, you can tell he knows his wrestling outside of WCW and WWE.
He's certainly got the time to do it now.
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Current era WWE will never be like before and sometimes it makes me a bit sad but I’m grateful to have witnessed something you probably won’t see again in this lifetime.
Triple H is one of the best all time wrestlers, not only becaues of the performances, but he really made people laugh, and also feel good when the baby face got revenge on heel character. A tree talented guy! I appreciate the great memories and respect the hard work and sacrifices he made.
Low key one of the best finishers
Good interview. Cool to hear him tell what really happened and how he came up.
"The Outlaw" Ron Bass usually did a finishing facebuster it in 1988 without holding the arms, though on a few occasions he did hook the arms and it looked exactly like a pedigree. Hard to say..
Yeah, when Triple H started using it, that is who I thought of. I do not think Bass ever did the double under hooks, but it was a fast first piledriver move.
But that footage of Andre was before 88 so really think about it
In around 1987 or maybe 1988 I got into a fight with another kid. I kicked him in the stomach and then gave him a pedigree. Obviously, it wasn’t ever done in professional wrestling before other than when Andre, faced Onoki, as Triple H noted but anytime that I saw Hunter do it, it always reminded me of that fight that I got into with that other kid.
“Remember that time I smashed somebody’s face?” Type vibes 😭
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What’s the name of the movie?
Triple H started his career in the 90s.
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Wait so HHH Created his own finisher move ? That's fire
Damn straight.
Did we watch the same interview?
They literally showed footage of Andre doing a "proto-pedigree" in Japan years before HHH was in the WWF.
All he did was get in trouble for using the "Diamond Cutter" without permission... and making it look like absolute SHIT, then gave an incredibly dull name to a move he saw performed years ago and called it his finisher.
@@thisisnotachannel ok Todd.
@@thisisnotachannel well you obviously didn’t watch the same interview then because he clearly states he didn’t know about that until a year or two ago.
@@RandomCommentKid101 Yep. He said he learned it from watching Killer Kowalski not Andre. But I guess he modified it not invented it.
Every time i hear a wrestler talk about wcw, they’re always saying how much of a mess it was. Imagine how different wrestling would be if they actually knew what they were doing
Lol
True enough. The talent, the stories, the various stuff that just came together, they really could have done more if they had a better head on their shoulders and had thought more long-term.
When I started watching wrestling I liked way better
The victors get to write the history books not the losers. It was not nearly as bad as some claimed. Things were sunshine and rainbows in the WWF either.
Wcw was comedy wrestling
My favorite wrestler of all time 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Triple H
My brother, a few cousins, and I had a sleepover as kids and one of the things we did was wrestle WWE style on the floor, little to no pillows. Long story short I hit the Pedigree on my brother, knock him out, and we thought I killed him. Don't try this at home right 😂
I remember hitting a tombstone pile driver on a friend of mine at school in the playground mulch...went straight to the principal's office!!! But yeah...don't try at home or any other place; for that matter...lol
Man, my brother damn near gave me a concussion doing that to me.
@@rawrep07 haha same story. I was taken Jericho wall on the school table, and then a teacher came. We were taken straight to the office and promised not to do smack down again. Not only that, the whole school was informed about it too. I was really embarrassed at that time, but thinking about it now, I guess it's kinda cool.
I tried to do a famouser on the bed to my brother and landed my tailbone on the metal bed frame
I feel bad for trips man. With the heart stuff and losing control of his product. And has to watch his stars get released and ruined. Hope the best for him. Will always miss old nxt
Story always was, he got this finisher seeing Outlaw Ron Bass.
That’s very brutal.the giants version.
yea...but in todays wrestling world guys would kick out of 20 of them ....
yeah it looked dangerous as hell
I always understood it as the pedigree was a variation of somthing where the arm or something stuck out (and maybe the move was different) and HHH changed it to what it became.
Everybody seems to agree that Triple H's transferring to WWE was the best career move for him at the time.
Yet...
nobody has considered that this decision effectively deprived the world of _Triple H vs Wright II._
followed hhh Carrer in wwf from the start and I loved the blue blood gimmick. when he ended up with Shawn I saw huge things coming. was not a huge fan but hhh gave us a lot of memories probably more then we realize. he is one of those wrestlers who will be talked about 70 years from now
Paul is such a LEGEND ✨💫
One of the best...maybe the best heel ever
Andre clip aside, I always assumed the pedigree was borrowed from someone else.
One of the greatest finishers ever, same echelon as the Tombstone, RKO, Stunner and Sweet Chin Music. Fits the character perfectly and believable as a finish
But the best move probably ever is the Kata Ha Jime aka tazzmission.
Once your in that move kiss your ass goodbye...
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Survive.... if I let you!!!
His Michael Hayes impression is spot on 😂😂
Even tho I knew all of this, great video and format. Subbed
Triple H doing a Michael Hayes impression was something I didn’t know I needed in my life
Honestly could listen to him all day
It's all about the game, and how you play it.
Good interview
Vince knows how to talk to his super stars
Said he wanted to be the best.
Ended up becoming a legit legend.
Michael Hayes had a lot of good ideas, I always hear his name when people talk about how they started using their finisher.
Black Bart was doing “The Pedigree” years before HHH was even around. He called it the Texas Death Drop.
4:22 I've heard so many guys say that about that era. 'Go to WWF, Vince will make you a star'. And he did.....WWF had a ridiculous amount of talent that they built up themselves, and pushed all the guys that left WCW and came to them to greater things in their careers....Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Big Show. They made so many stars. Which is why its so baffling as to why they get it so wrong in the current era. Its hard to believe its the same company that gave us the attitude era, then Ruthless Aggression... its been a steady decline since then.
It was Vince in the end. As evidenced by the current day’s highs
@PW.Skyline.V37 Haven't seen the attitude era return yet. So clearly wasnt just a Vince thing. Lmk when proper chair shots are back, color, and King screaming about the puppies.
Did you know? Vince was the one who performed the best Pedigree in history while Triple H selling it.
Wow that Andre move was dangerous. Axial compression of the neck with twisting.
Hi. Thank you for someone who didnt know triple h was a reverse ship jumper! My whole life i thought he had a start from a similarr ovw gym scenario!
The Warrior didn't even wanna sell it. 😂😂😂
One of the best finishers period!
I was just bringing it up about the diamond cutter so I'm glad he told the story
The move has the "Bury them" vibe too which kinda goes with his "The king" gimmick
HHH is my all-time fav wrestler
The most loved Badass in WWE - HHH
Dude said get out of here Vince will make you a Star. Correct! Many companies believe that WWE is the weaker Brand. Nope.
Sincerely,
Pedigree is a brand for dog food.
Pedigree Definition : distinguished, excellent, or pure ancestry.
@@RyzenZegend Yeah... it's also a dog food brand.
Fact.
@@thisisnotachannel Yeah thats sold around the world as Quality.....hence the name Pedigree.
@@brocklesnar3802 also considering he was apart of the blue bloods the name fits
My world would’ve been so different if hhh stuck with the rko as a finisher.
One of the greatest finishers of all time.
The Pedigree is the one move i refused to let my brother do on me. That shit always looked lethal
Outlaw Ron Bass used to use the pedigree
So fun seeing Trip years after the reign of terror
Triple H was one of my favorites during the Attitude era and it's always interesting to see him out of character.
1980’s mid carder Outlaw Ron Bass used a very similar move to the pedigree as his finisher.
Pedigree on the thumbtacks was the craziest
Andre's the GOAT. That pre-pedigree was brutal.
I like Trips but he literally followed up talking about how little money he was being paid in WCW and how he turned down a multi year deal because of it with “It’s not about the money”.
I know right like if it's not about the money then turning down the wcw contract wouldn't have been an issue then
He also mentioned what a mess it was in WCW. I think what he meant when he said it wasn’t about the money is he knew that wasn’t going to be an issue.
Cause even when he spoke of negotiating the one year deal with WCW that was really practical. He bet on himself.
The Pedigree is one of the top 10 finishers of all time. I'd love to talk with HHH about wrestling.
I watched another interview recently wherein it was stated that Trips was happy to stop using the Cutter because he and DDP were friends and he knew how important it was to protect a finish. Page counted this as Hunter being a real standup guy. The alternate take here is…interesting.
Years ago, and I mean 10+, I saw the interview you’re talking about. 100%, the story was that DDP asked HHH directly to not use it and HHH agreed, none of this ddp speaking to someone else to get hhh to not do it and him being relieved.
I remember the first time I saw the pedigree I cringed at how brutal it looked. Hook the arms and drop your opponent on his face...
“A guy”… was Mick Foley 🌵 2:50
I get why you're correcting to show respect but tbf Paul didn't even remember an rko was called a cutter so I doubt he remembered who was in that clip
I always saw the Pedigree as a piledriver. It looks like it early in the WWF. But when he released the arms on hitting the mat it became a facebuster.
Who's the guy interviewing him? Making that comment about DDP "he does know he didn't invent the cutter, right?" The move was practically his identity and was associated with him until Randy Orton brought it to a whole new generation (DDP actually gave him the move btw). Put some respect on his name.
So what. The DDP was once associated with Jake the Snake now anyone can use it
@@GA-sb9sz So anyone could've just taken the Ace Crusher? Anyone can just take the Pedigree and use it? Anyone can take the Tombstone with the crossed arms in WWE without asking, first? You make 0 sense
Johnny Ace gave DDP the move. It's a respect thing.
@@imaratspal Did he?
The pedigree is the easiest move to do with the most effective.
yehyehyeh, of course hhh is the only guy who innovated his finisher himself and didnt see others doing it
hhh seems like the kinda guy who has a great story for everything...
the guy who knew about the screwjob and was friends with the biggest backstage assholes in all of wrestling always tells the nicest stories about himself
Hunter needs his own podcast. Seriously.
Everyone forget Stevie Ray? The flapjack. Knew about Andre but I'm old lol. Just like bruiser brody did the jackhammer but as a normal move not a finsher. Goldberg's whole character is homege to Brody. Always like hearing cool stories from HHH. He was a tag partner to ,Sean O'Hare in wcw as terra rizing. Sean invented the F5. R.I.P. big guy.
With Triple h, everything is funny😂
I did this to my brother once
Broke his nose and was so much in pain.
Considering he landed Steph and a perm exec job I'd say he made some good moves
Legend!!
I did the pedigree on my step-dad and he started throwing up.
You need to be in jail that's assault sir 🤣😆
@@xxxmetalslugga5349 he walked it off and goes shit that hurts.
I remember seeing him doing it in WCW
DDP may not have invented but none has every done it so many different ways or better than him fullstop .
That piledriver Andre gave Inoki was brutal. Damn
He was lucky. Im sure he suffered a legit concussion from that
Crazy to hear we nearly had HHH using the RKO / cutter as a finisher
That is ironic cuz Orton ends up using the move
He DID invent the CUTTER!! DDP !
MICHAEL HAYES made a lotta good calls !
Jonny ace laurintis created the ace cutter. Diamond cutter, rko and the stunner are all variations of Johnny's original
@@seaniekay we all know this ... but noone ... not even Johnny thought it was great until Dallas made it famous!
@@seepack2910 I must admit the way he would pull it off of different moves it gave it that mystique of it was dangerous because it could happen at any moment In the match so you would be glued to the match waiting for it too happen. Another I forgot to mention before who did a good one was bubba Ray dudleys bubba cutter was done very well. But stone colds was the most famous
The Pedegree is what made Triple H a 14 time world champion
Andre used the tombstone first too, Andre was such an innovator.
Thank you Hunter
Killer - Your name is Terrorizer. Paul - But I want a first and last name!
Killer - Done! Terra Rizin!
His voice sounds different compared to when he was more younger
Decades of additional test.
@@samwell707 Lol True
@@samwell707 what you mean?
@@Kickboxing72829 steroids probably
@@Kickboxing72829 injections of testosterone
My favorite finisher, its like the embodiment of saying f*ck you