7 WWE Fake Accents That Are Miserably Poor
1. Triple H (Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Jean-Paul Lévesque)
Triple H has had one of the most storied and impressive careers of all time. The Cerebral Assassin, The Game, The King of Kings, DX Leader. Those are the HHH characters that WWE, and the man himself, want you to remember. Before there was HHH, though, there was Hunter Hearst Helmsley, the Connecticut Blueblood. Before that, it was French aristocrat Jean-Paul Lévesque.
The blueblood character saw HHH affect an American upper-class accent that made him sound like a cross between William Regal and Frasier. The accent was dropped entirely when the eventual COO made the transition from Hunter Hearst Helmsley to become Triple H. Because the character evolved into the HHH we know today, it can be argued that the accent was successful. The same can’t be said for another early incarnation of 'The Game': Jean-Paul Lévesque.
Lévesque’s strained aristocratic French accent was difficult to listen to, even by the standards of the time. The man behind the accent wasn’t all that comfortable with what he was doing, and it showed in the performance.
It turns out that when Triple H called out Kofi Kingston for his sudden lack of an accent, it was coming from a place of camaraderie.