WrestleMania legend, 55, is responsible for Sky Sports presenter's breakthrough thanks to chance meeting
04/19/2025 06:44 PM
EMMA PATON got her first break in TV thanks to WWE legend Triple H.
Paton, 30, is considered by many as the face of darts after spending years covering the sport with Sky Sports.
And the esteemed presenter revealed that if it wasn’t for a chance meeting with the pro wrestling great at Royal Albert Hall in 2018 then probably none of this would ever happen.
She attended the United Kingdom Championship Tournament where the then head of NXT was present to oversee the event.
Paton told Wayne Mardle on the William Hill Club 501 "Obviously I was trying hard to present six or seven years ago.
"This was before I made any breakthrough with darts. I was working in production, behind the camera. I was trying to find opportunities to gain experience as a presenter.
"In the end one of my colleagues worked on WWE and said, 'We do podcasts if you ever want to come and shadow or watch, let me know'.
"An event came up at the Royal Albert Hall for a press day and then the event in the evening.
"My colleague told me to ask a question. I put my hand up and they brought a mic over and I asked about the growth of women's wrestling and Triple H gave this really long answer.
"The press conference wrapped up and he's walking out with his entourage and comes over to me and introduces himself. He says 'I might have an exclusive for you'.
"A month later and my colleague gets an email from his PA and said, 'We want to give you this exclusive as mentioned. There will be this all women's pay-per-view which has never been done before. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon would like to invite Emma over to New York to cover the event for Sky Sports’.
"A job came up at Sky Sports News for a presenter/reporter job which I applied for and I was lucky enough to get through the stages.
“I'd been at Sky for seven or eight years. The Triple H thing maybe gave me confidence as well. Really random."
That WWE event was Evolution – the first and only all-women’s Pay-Per-View show that took place in 2018 at the Nassau Coliseum in New York.
Triple H is one of the the greatest wrestlers of all time, having won a staggering 14 world titles by beating fellow legends like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker and more.
The Game now goes by his real name of Paul Levesque as he has taken a leading role within WWE as the company’s chief content officer and head of creative.
And The Cerebral Assassin is now set for the ultimate honour as he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame before WrestleMania 41.
