Paul “Triple H” Levesque says there is one other person in his career he saw for the first time and immediately understood the business had changed, and that person is Oba Femi’s opponent this weekend.
Speaking to ESPN’s First Take, Levesque was asked about Femi’s ceiling and said there is not one.
“There is no ceiling. I’ve been fortunate enough to be around this business for a long time and see a lot of guys come and go, to see a lot of first moments for people. The only guy I’ve seen that I can recall walking down a hallway at one of our events, seeing for the first time and thinking, ‘Wow, this just changed the game,’ was Brock Lesnar.”
“Oba Femi is of that same cloth. He is a guy that when you see him in ring for the first time, and keep in mind he’s only been doing this for a very, very short period of time, he is a paradigm-shifting, game-changing athlete that comes along once in a generation. Very rare.”
What Levesque said stands out most is not the physical side.
“There is no ceiling, and the one thing about Oba that stands out more than anything else for me, dealing with him on a day-to-day basis, he is a smart, smart man also. It’s not just a case of this physically intimidating, generational athlete that others can’t match. It’s a different level of intelligence and business savvy like I’ve seen in very few people also.”
“When I say there is no ceiling, I really mean there is no ceiling. It’s anything he wants, it’s just a matter of when, not if.”
Femi faces Lesnar inside Hell in a Cell at SummerSlam this weekend in Minneapolis. He won the King of the Ring tournament at Night of Champions and passed on the world title shot that came with it to pursue Lesnar, and the two have split their previous meetings at WrestleMania 42 and Clash in Italy.
