Hanging up his belt. WWE star Paul “Triple H” Levesque is officially retiring after undergoing heart surgery last year due to heart failure.“As far as in ring, which I get [asked about] a lot, I’m done,” the 52-year-old athlete told Stephen A.
Smith on ESPN’s First Take on Friday, March 25. “I would never wrestle again. First, I have a defibrillator in my chest.
Which, it’s probably not a good idea for me to get zapped on live TV.”The 14-time world champion, whose full interview will air on Stephen A’s World on Friday evening, explained what led to his decision to step back from the ring, pointing to his health scare in the fall of 2021.The professional wrestler recalled having viral pneumonia where his lungs became enflamed.
After learning that he had fluid around his lungs and heart, he got “increasingly worse,” explaining that he was told by doctors to pack a bag and get to the hospital ASAP.Triple H had having only 30 percent of his heart ejection fraction working before arriving at the emergency room when it should be at 55 to 60 percent. (Ejection fraction is how well one’s left or right ventricle pumps blood with each heartbeat.)“By the time I got to the emergency room, my ejection fraction had gone down to 22,” WWE’s executive vice president of global talent strategy and development said during his interview. “I was in heart failure.
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