Triple H Recounts Spike Pedigree On Marty Garner, Details Backstage Reaction

The moment occurred in 1996.

Variety posted a 30-plus-minute sit-down chat with WWE Chief Content Officer Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque and NXT overseer Shawn Michaels.

There was a point in their conversation when Levesque looked back on spiking Marty Garner (Cham Pain) with a Pedigree on an episode of WWF/E Superstars in 1996. Levesque, then known as Jean-Paul Levesque, remembers Garner immediately saying he was fine. Levesque also shared the backstage reaction to the moment.

“It’s funny, when I first came in here, I had started using a version of the Pedigree in WCW and they wanted me to do — I think they had seen (Diamond) Dallas (Page) do the Diamond Cutter or something and they wanted me to use that so I used it for a couple of matches on TV. I didn’t feel comfortable using it and I felt like somebody else is already doing it and I said, ‘Well, I have this other move that I did before’ and I did the Pedigree and I remember Chief (Jay Strongbow) coming to me like, ‘Well, why didn’t you do that the whole time?’ I was like, ‘Because you guys told me not to.’ But, that kid that took the — I think his name was Cham Pain — was a friend of The Hardys. He came in to do an extra, and he’s a good hand and all that stuff. We just talked about it beforehand — doing the Pedigree — and when I went to do it, he went straight up and down and I tried my hardest to hold ‘em up. Because I was like, oh, I can piledrive him and he landed–I thought I killed him. I was like, ‘Holy sh*t.’ I was like, ‘Are you okay?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, I’m okay.’ When I walked back through Gorilla (Position), everybody was staring at me like, ‘What’d you do?’ I was like, ‘He said he’s fine.’ It’s not like I threw him up there. He just jumped up there and he was totally fine with it so, we got lucky…”

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If the quote in this article is used, please credit Variety with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.