Professional wrestling legend and two times WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels who is a former four times WWE World champion recently talked about his real life best friend Triple H and talked about his working relationship with the “Cerebral Assassin.”
As mentioned above, Shawn Michaels and Triple H are real life best friends. Their friendship started after Triple H joined WWE back in the 1990s. Together they formed a backstage group of the wrestlers that were really close to each other and the name of this group was the Kliq.
Shawn Michaels Talks About His Relationship With Triple H
In 1997, they formed the legendary WWE faction D Generation X and this was the first time Triple H and Michaels worked as a team in front of the wrestling fans. On their initial days, Michaels was the leader of this stable as he had been the WWE World champion for the most time period.
But after Michaels dropped the WWE World Championship to Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania XIV, he went out of action for quite a long time. Triple H went on to become one of the biggest stars of WWE during this time. In 2002 they started working together once again. But this time only as enemies, of course in kayfabe.
In 2006 they reformed D Generation X and once again they reached the ultimate height of success together. Right now Triple H is working as the Head of Creative of WWE and Shawn Michaels is the Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative. Their friendship is still going very strong.
Shawn Michaels who is a former four times WWE World champion recently spoke to Culture State podcast where he talked about his real life best friend Triple H and talked about his working relationship with him. He said;
“From a weekly television standpoint, what we do on ‘NXT’ is more or less my ballpark,” Michaels said, clarifying that Levesque still has a heavy hand in WWE’s recruiting process but that he isn’t making decisions for individual shows. “Hunter always checks in and knows who the people are.
“He obviously watches the show, he sees the people that appear to have promise in his sight and in ours as well. I think he takes a mental note of who he sees and what he sees in them, and I’m sure he makes his crew aware of it as well. And then whenever those times come when they feel like they’re ready for a call-up or they see a need that they might have, that’s when they would give us a call.”
Quotes via Wrestling Inc