Randy Orton Reveals Emotional Meeting With Triple H After Retirement Announcement

Randy Orton has done pretty much everything a pro wrestler would want to do in WWE over the course of his 2-decade-long career. Orton is also a proper veteran now and is more than willing to help the younger generation out in any way he can.

Triple H recently announced his retirement from professional wrestling, after he suffered a cardiac event that almost cost him his life. Even now, many continue to show a ton of respect to Triple H for all he did for the pro wrestling industry.

Triple H brought Randy Orton under his wing as part of Evolution and eventually helped him become a big star as well. While speaking on the Out of Character podcast with Ryan Satin, Orton revealed the emotional meeting he had with Triple H after his retirement announcement.

“I got to see Triple H last night and I hugged that grown man as hard as I could, and I got emotional just because of this announcement last week,” Orton said. “We had just a few words between one another, but you don’t have forever. This is a really special close-knit group of guys and girls and this is where it’s at. To us, this is everything and you never know when it’s going to be taken away from you.

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All of that really makes me appreciate the now more, and Riddle being one of those as well. I obviously didn’t like him too much in the beginning, that was very real, but I love the guy now and he’s great and he’s definitely motivated me to give it a little more effort. He’s making it more fun for me too.”

Randy Orton also recently stated that Triple H is motivation for what he wants to do in pro wrestling. Triple H is busy building up NXT and that is what matters for him in the end.

h/t to Wrestling Inc for the quotes

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