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Hanging up his belt. WWE star Paul “Triple H” Levesque is officially retiring after undergoing heart surgery last year due to heart failure. Celebrity Health Scares Read article “As far as ...
The event also saw the final matches of two veteran wrestlers: Kurt Angle lost his farewell match against Baron Corbin, and Batista lost a No Holds Barred match against Triple H and retired after the event. Additionally, this was the final WrestleMania to feature Triple H as an in-ring competitor as he retired in 2022 due to a cardiac event.
Another feud culminating at Over the Edge involved Triple H and The Rock, who met each other in a match at the event. [6] Triple H had interfered in one of The Rock's matches, [9] and later threw him off the stage, [7] leading The Rock to wearing his injured arm in a plaster cast. Shane, acting as co-owner of WWF and ally of Triple H, further ...
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The main event was a Hell in a Cell match for the World Heavyweight Championship between Batista and Triple H, which Batista won by pinfall after executing a Batista Bomb. One of the predominant matches on the card was John Cena versus Chris Jericho versus Christian in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship .
The events leading up to this match began on the June 23 episode of Raw, when Kane took his mask off and exposed his face in front of Van Dam and the crowd after he lost to Triple H in a match for the World Heavyweight Championship (which was the stipulation) before chokeslamming Van Dam.
The buildup to the match began after WrestleMania 21, WWE's previous pay-per-view event, where Batista defeated Triple H to win the championship. On the April 11 episode of Raw , one of WWE's primary television programs, it was announced that Batista would defend the championship against Triple H at Backlash, after Triple H invoked his rematch ...
Triple H as World Heavyweight Champion. The event comprised eight matches, including one on the pre-show, that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.