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Triple H

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American business executive, actor, and retired professional wrestler serving as the executive vice president for Talent Relations and head of creative for WWE.

Helmsley wore a tailcoat suit and carried a traditional atomizer perfume bottle to highlight his extreme snobbishness

Triple H after he won the Undisputed WWF Championship at WrestleMania X8

Triple H as WWE Champion in November 2008

Triple H at the Tribute to the Troops in December 2010

Triple H being taunted by The Undertaker ahead of their second consecutive WrestleMania match

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon as The Authority

Triple H making his Terminator Genisys inspired entrance at WrestleMania 31 2015

Triple H with his wife Stephanie McMahon at WrestleMania 34

Triple H setting up the Pedigree on John Cena in October 2005

Triple H making his entrance with the WWE Championship, which he has won nine times

Triple H is also the inaugural and five-time World Heavyweight Champion – totaling being a 14-time world champion overall in WWE

Helmsley held the title for nearly four months before dropping it to Rocky Maivia on the February 13, 1997 special episode of Monday Night Raw, called Thursday Raw Thursday.

The Undertaker

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American retired professional wrestler.

Paul Bearer betrayed The Undertaker by hitting him with the urn he is seen carrying here

The Undertaker in his "Big Evil" persona

Taker performing a Tombstone Pildriver on Ric Flair at WrestleMania X8.

The Undertaker, awakening the arena lights as he enters the ring

The Undertaker retaining his undefeated Streak at WrestleMania 22

The Undertaker after he defeated Edge at WrestleMania XXIV

The Undertaker, after defeating Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 25

The Undertaker defending the World Heavyweight title at the Royal Rumble in January 2010

Triple H and The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVIII

The Undertaker approaching the ring at WrestleMania XXX in 2014

The Undertaker in the ring at WrestleMania 31 in 2015

The Undertaker, as his Deadman character, preparing to trigger lights back to the arena from raised arms as part of his entrance.

The Undertaker walks away from the ring after The Streak was broken at WrestleMania XXX, April 2014

The Undertaker is a three-time World Heavyweight Champion

After Survivor Series, The Undertaker returned his attention to his previous feud with Austin for costing him the title at Judgment Day, hitting Austin in the head with a shovel during a title match with The Rock on the November 16 episode of Raw, returning the favor for what happened a month earlier.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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American media personality, actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler.

Austin celebrates with referee Earl Hebner.

Austin's signature "flipping off" the crowd pose

Austin (left) faces off against The Rock at WrestleMania XIX, which was Austin's last match until 2022.

Austin is noted for his signature "beer smash", seen here at WrestleMania 25.

Austin (center) with Hulk Hogan (left) and The Rock at WrestleMania XXX

...and a WWE Hall of Fame inductee (class of 2009).

With Hart out of the way, Austin set his sights on The Rock, who stole Austin's championship belt after Austin suffered a beating by his Nation of Domination stablemates.

Big Show

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American professional wrestler and actor.

Big Show entering the arena on the SmackDown! entranceway in 1999

Big Show, as United States Champion in 2004, facing Brock Lesnar

Big Show at the Tribute to the Troops in 2004

Big Show as the ECW World Champion in 2006

Big Show arguing with referee Scott Armstrong

Big Show and Chris Jericho as the Unified WWE Tag Team Champions, forming an alliance known as Jeri-Show

Big Show at Tribute to Troops in December 2010

Big Show with the World Heavyweight Championship prior to match at Smack Down

Show after he won the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania XXVIII

Big Show with the André the Giant Memorial Trophy

Big Show faces Braun Strowman in a cage match in 2017

Renamed as The Big Show, he made his WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania XV, facing Mankind for the right to referee the main event between Austin and The Corporation's WWF Champion The Rock.

Kane (wrestler)

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American politician, actor, and semi-retired professional wrestler.

Kane in 2003, wearing his half mask weeks before his unmasking on Raw

A bloodied Kane in a steel cage match against Edge

Kane was reunited with The Undertaker when he returned to SmackDown! in 2006

Kane preparing for a chokeslam at a WWE Live Event in February 2008.

Kane performing his signature fire pyro at WrestleMania XXVIII in April 2012.

Kane offering to "hug it out" with Daniel Bryan

Kane as The Authority's Director of Operations in 2014

Kane after his second re-masking in 2014

Kane reformed his alliance with Big Show during a feud with The Wyatt Family back in 2016

Kane alongside former Team Hell No partner Daniel Bryan in July 2018

Jacobs speaking at a political conference hosted by Campaign for Liberty in Alexandria, Virginia in 2014

Jacobs as Mayor speaking with attendees at Revolution 2021 hosted by Young Americans for Liberty at Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee, Florida.

In WWE, Kane is a former ECW Champion...

...and a former World Heavyweight Champion

Kane returned on the May 29 episode of Raw, when he helped The Undertaker and The Rock fight off the McMahon-Helmsley Faction.

Vince McMahon

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American media proprietor, retired professional wrestling promoter, executive, and performer.

McMahon sharing a joke with Ron Killings at the 2008 Tribute to the Troops event

McMahon after losing his match at King of the Ring in June 2000

The Undertaker, McMahon, Brock Lesnar and Sable on SmackDown!

The exploded limousine at WrestleMania Axxess in 2012

McMahon commands Hornswoggle to join his "Kiss My Ass Club" in 2008

McMahon during the 2009 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony

McMahon talks to Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell before the 2016 WWE Tribute to the Troops event, as his son-in-law Paul Levesque and his son Shane look on

McMahon as the ECW World Champion in 2007

McMahon's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame which is a one-time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion

McMahon receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2009

Mr. McMahon demanded that Austin defend his Intercontinental Championship against The Rock in a rematch.

Chris Jericho

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American-Canadian professional wrestler and singer.

Jericho after a taping of WCW Monday Nitro in 1998

Jericho live with Fozzy in December 2012

Jericho on SmackDown! in 1999 with Mr. Hughes, his enforcer during his rivalry with Ken Shamrock

Jericho and Shawn Michaels after their match at WrestleMania XIX (2003)

Jericho celebrates after winning his eighth WWE Intercontinental Championship in March 2008

Jericho attacking the injured eye of Michaels at the 2008 The Great American Bash. Their rivalry was named "Feud of the Year" by both Pro Wrestling Illustrated and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Jericho and Big Show as the Unified WWE Tag Team Champions

Jericho at WrestleMania XXVIII shortly before his match against CM Punk

Jericho at a WWE event in September 2016

Jericho as AEW World Champion in October 2019

In 2001, he became the first Undisputed WWF Champion, and thus the final holder of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship (then referred to as the World Championship), having won and unified the WWF and World titles by defeating Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock on the same night.

Kurt Angle

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American retired professional wrestler, Olympic gold medalist in American freestyle wrestling, and former collegiate wrestler.

Angle at King of the Ring in 2000 – a tournament he eventually won

Angle and Brock Lesnar after their WWE Championship title match at WrestleMania XIX

Angle applies the ankle lock to Shawn Michaels

Angle after regaining his Olympic Gold Medal at SummerSlam in 2005

Kurt and Karen Angle watching at ringside during Impact!

Angle holding IGF's version of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship belts

Angle as the "Godfather" of the Main Event Mafia

Angle and Jeff Jarrett at Slammiversary IX

Angle at Bound for Glory in October 2015

Angle as Raw General Manager in July 2017

Angle at WrestleMania 34 with Ronda Rousey

Angle being helped by his then-wife Karen, with their daughter watching at ringside (far back)

Following his feud with Triple H, Angle received another push and began pursuing the WWF Championship, defeating The Rock at No Mercy, after botched interference on The Rock's behalf from Rikishi.

The Undertaker in a casket match against CM Punk

Professional wrestling match types

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Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called "concept" or "gimmick matches" in the jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling.

A stretcher at ringside prior to a stretcher match

A steel cage match at a 2013 Impact Wrestling event

The original Elimination Chamber structure

Shane McMahon and Kevin Owens on the outside of the Hell in a Cell structure, as seen in 2017.

Joey Kings (in white top, right) dropkicks Warhed into the barbed wire ropes

In keeping with the theme, the wrestlers outside the ring may wear flannel shirts during lumberjack matches; an example of this is the 1–2–3 Kid in 1995

Johnny Devine (left) uses a kendo stick on Buck Gunderson during a match

Chris Jericho (left) and Shawn Michaels on a table at a 2008 house show in Puerto Rico

An example of this is the WWF championship match between The Rock and Mankind that took place in Tucson, Arizona, at the Tucson Convention Center, which aired as part of a special Halftime Heat edition of Sunday Night Heat aired against the Super Bowl halftime show of Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999.