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Paul Levesque, best known as Triple H in WWE, was stunned two weeks ago when Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker surprised him with news that he would be inducted into the Hall of Fame at WrestleMania. On Friday, he got his “revenge” on The Undertaker by doing the same thing to The Dead Man’s wife Michelle McCool.
Michaels and Taker pulled off their surprise in the lead-up to the Royal Rumble as Triple H was on stage speaking.
Triple H made his move while The Undertaker and Michelle McCool were on ESPN’s Get Up talking about the wrestling organization’s upcoming new competition series WWE LFG.
Much like when Shawn Michaels’ music mysteriously began playing before surprising Triple H, the WWE Chief Content Officer’s music also began playing ominously out of nowhere on the show.
“Hey guys!” Triple H said as he appeared on the big screen beside Taker and Michelle McCool.
“I just got nervous,” The Undertaker said with a surprised look on his face.
“Well, you know, a few weeks ago The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels decided that they want to put one over on me,” Triple H explained as The Undertaker muttered, “Oh boy.”
“They wanted to make an executive decision and they wanted to come to one of our in office events and surprise me and tell me that I was getting inducted into the Hall of Fame,” Triple H continued. “Which was a an amazing surprise, but from the two of them, from Shawn and The Undertaker, this seemed like just getting one up on me.
“And the beautiful part of me right now is being the bosses I get the last laugh,” he said. “So I wanted to come here today to take a moment to say Michelle, the Wrestlemania season is upon us, which means the Hall of Fame. And I would like to tell you right now that you will be inducted into the 2025 Hall of Fame. Congratulations. … Very well-deserved and long overdue.”
He would go on to say that Michelle McCool was “one of the women that that sort of transformed what we do and brought it into the modern era.”
McCool, who went from being a middle school teacher to pro wrestler after participating in the WWE Diva Search in 2004, was the inaugural WWE Divas Champion. She would later win the WWE Women’s Championship, becoming the first to have held both titles, then unified them at Night of Champions in 2010. Overall, she was a four-time WWE champion. She and Mark Calaway, AKA The Undertaker, have been married since 2010 and have two children together.