Triple H says Stephanie McMahon “changed the culture” in WWE from “the f*cking Wild West”
While appearing on Stephanie McMahon’s What’s Your Story? podcast, Paul “Triple H” Levesque commented on her contributions to the wrestling business ahead of her 2026 WWE Hall of Fame induction…
“You put the culture into what we do. It didn’t exist before that. It was just the f*cking Wild West—that’s what the business was.
And then you came in and changed it. All of a sudden, there was a different take on it, a different perspective. It wasn’t that Wild West business anymore—now it was a family.
I don’t know that it was a family before that. I think it was a business. You had people on the road you worked with who felt like family, but it was still very much a business—hard, cutthroat, all of those things.
And then you changed it over time. You made changes internally. You made changes on the road. You were the person who listened.”
“You changed that culture, and you still see it today. There’s a component of it that, no matter what, you’ll hear people say—we’re here, and some of the newer people don’t get it.
But anybody that was here through that period of time, all the way through to when you left the office—man, Steph was the heart and soul. Steph was the heart and soul. Steph was the heart and soul.”