Triple H addressed his upcoming WWE Hall of Fame induction during the Royal Rumble post-show, revealing previous conversations with Nick Khan about the timing of this honor.
Nick and I talked about the Hall of Fame many times, and he would always bring up the fact that, when are we gonna put you in, and I would say, not now, because no matter how I do it, it looks like I’m putting myself in the Hall of Fame, and I’m just not gonna do that, so he said we have to do it eventually, and I was like, okay, if we have to do it eventually, let’s wait three, four, five years and then we’ll talk about it, and he said okay.
Triple H also detailed the unexpected way he learned about his induction during a town hall meeting.
We had an entirely different plan for Hall of Fame, and we got to the end of the town hall and Shawn’s music hit, I thought, honestly, being lazy, I didn’t read the end of the town hall run sheet and there was more after the Q&A that I just didn’t see, and I was like, oh, Shawn’s gonna come out here and talk about the new show we’re doing, LFG, and put that over, so I was confused when Shawn came out, when Taker came out it doubled, then I saw Nick walk to the other side of the room, and I realized, that somehow this is gonna affect me. I wasn’t sure positively, negatively, humorously, until Taker said WrestleMania.