Paul "Triple H" Levesque

But I've never sort of been the guy that just wanted to play.

Like I'm the kid that wanted to play baseball but wanted to know everything about it.

Like I wanted to know all the positions.

I wanted to know the theory of the game.

I wanted to know all that stuff.

So when I...

Really first started to make it came to WWE and started to make it I had the opportunity to Talk creatively with Vince McMahon for the first time and that would start a creative relationship with the two of us That would last for you know multiple decades that would sort of put me in even while I was performing in a behind-the-scenes capacity understanding what drove the business and the business of the business and

over all those years.

So when, you know, he finally left, I had sort of been in that position for a lot of years to sort of come in and seamlessly, to some degree, because, you know, nobody can fully take over the chair that he had.

He built the business from the ground up.

He is the visionary that saw this.

You talk about our deals with ESPN.

When WrestleMania I first happened, it was on closed circuit TV.

We were pioneering the closed circuit TV industry.

When pay-per-view came to be, Vince could see it going into every home.

So he had gone out and took over all the little territories and became the first sort of national global brand, pioneered the pay-per-view industry.

And I've heard people say in that industry, pay-per-view would have failed if it wasn't for WWE cuz we had multiple events all the time.

Not like boxing where there was one offs.

When pay-per-view was starting to slow down and streaming came in, you know, when Netflix was the big first mover, we moved immediately and went from pay-per-view.

And I think you were there for part of that.