During a recent appearance at the “Fanatics Fest NYC” event, Paul Heyman described how Paul “Triple H” Levesque had a keen sense of the wrestling industry’s future back in 1997 when he was still an active WWE Superstar.

You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

Paul Heyman on the first time he met Triple H: “I can’t speak for Paul Levesque [Triple H], I don’t know when or where he may have garnered that level of respect for me. I can tell you, I’ve always been a Paul Levesque guy. I’ve always had a lot of respect for Paul Levesque. I met him for the first time when we had ECW participation on Monday Night Raw. I met him backstage. I don’t know what the conversation was completely, but it was about Killer Kowalski.”

On the appreciation Triple H has for the business: “The appreciation that he had, for the history of the business, but the vision he had that ‘as much as I love the past and I’m grounded in the rudimentary and fundamental ways of the business, we have to push it forward.’ Even back then in ’97, I was like, ‘Wow, this guy has his finger on the pulse of the future.’”