Triple H reveals the one time he actually injured someone for real with his sledgehammer

During an interview with Complex, Paul “Triple H” Levesque discussed his usage of the sledgehammer as a signature weapon in WWE…

“To be honest, I just used whatever hammer was available. I used it one time ’cause they needed—like, I ended up smashing a coffin with it that Rock was in, and it just became synonymous with me after that. Over the years I used various ones. Every now and then they’d have a prop one or something.

Ironically, the only time I ever injured anybody with the hammer was with Undertaker. We were going to—I believe it was WrestleMania [17]. He was going to put me up for the Last Ride, and I was going to grab the hammer on the way up. But we were so afraid—could I get all the way up there and still use it? So we used a gimmick sledgehammer that had like a foam head, ’cause it was much lighter. And when I went up top and hit him in the head with it, I held on to the foam part to protect him. And the handle went all the way through the foam part and cut him. I hit him—I had no idea. He went down. When I came up, he was bleeding. I was like, ‘Holy sh*t, what happened?’ He was just covered.”