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Post by héad.casé on Apr 27, 2022 11:42:53 GMT -5
“He’s cutting these promos, and he’s doing a good job, and so we get the story approved by Freebird, and then we get it approved by Vince, and we start shooting these little segments. They’re airing on television. It’s an ongoing thing, and he’s not calling out The Undertaker, but he’s sort of, speaking about The Undertaker, and you’re just waiting to figure out what the reason for it is. It can’t just be, ‘I want your spot!’ That would be stupid. “So, we’re all committed to this, or so we think. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Hunter says, ‘are we seriously going with this guy?’ And remember, this is not a pay-per-view match, this is not a guy who would get any sort of offense on The Undertaker. It would just be a build-up for The Undertaker to have something to do, so he could smash this guy and get rolling over to Edge. “He says, ‘are we really going to go with this guy?’ And Vince goes, ‘What do you mean? What’s the problem?’ And he says, ‘he looks like he cuts my grass, man!’ And literally – and Vince laughed. And literally, all the air went out of the room. Everybody just went, ‘noooo.’ Like you could just feel it. Because now it’s embarrassing to the company, at least from my perspective. “You put something on TV for three weeks, and then you remove it with no explanation? There’s no way you can do that. That doesn’t happen on any show. You could replace someone like Fresh Prince of Bel Air back in the day, all of a sudden there’s just a new mom, or on the soap operas where they’d be like, ‘the role of so-and-so is now played by Michael Barnett.’ I don’t know who Michael Barnett is. “So I’m sitting there like, there’s no way, there’s no way, and Vince laughs, and then Hunter laughs, and then Kevin Dunn laughs. Boy, I mean, he sells for it. You would have thought that was the best joke ever. So I’m like, ‘Ah man, this is – we’re dead.’ And Vince goes, ‘alright, dump it!'” www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2022/04/freddie-prinze-jr-recalls-triple-h-quip-that-made-vince-mcmahon-drop-angle/
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Post by Mid-Carder on Apr 27, 2022 11:45:53 GMT -5
Triple H in "being a dick" shocker
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Apr 27, 2022 11:52:42 GMT -5
Yeah, Hunter, completely unbelievable for a smaller guy to compete with Taker. Nobody could have believable matches with Undertaker, right Trips? Definitely not your best friend, Shawn, especially.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 27, 2022 11:54:57 GMT -5
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Post by pinja on Apr 27, 2022 12:13:47 GMT -5
Hade Vansen did spooky raspy voice while looking like a Disciple of the New Church reject. I don't blame Hunter for thinking what he said - problem is he said it. Playing devil's advocate: Why didn't Vansen come back from it? He seemingly didn't get a second look by WWE, he didn't have a noteworthy indie career afterwards (or did he?) - was there any one reason for that?
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Post by cornettesracket on Apr 27, 2022 12:30:20 GMT -5
Well that puts a bit of different spin on things then. Not a much better spin on it but different. Why would taker have a son ? Okay he has a brother but I don’t see how that would’ve worked at all.
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Post by sportatorium on Apr 27, 2022 12:31:14 GMT -5
Wondering if HHH was ever at a point when he wasn't up his own ass. His early blue blood promos didn't exactly stoke fear. He's as lucky as anyone that someone didn't say "are we really going with this guy"?
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Post by sportatorium on Apr 27, 2022 12:32:44 GMT -5
Well that puts a bit of different spin on things then. Not a much better spin on it but different. Why would taker have a son ? Okay he has a brother but I don’t see how that would’ve worked at all. This is the company that made Jason Jordan Kurt Angle's son and Hornswaggle Vince's son. Undertaker having an English son who looks nothing like him is entirely plausible.
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Post by Fundertaker on Apr 27, 2022 12:35:22 GMT -5
Hade Vansen did spooky raspy voice while looking like a Disciple of the New Church reject. I don't blame Hunter for thinking what he said - problem is he said it. Playing devil's advocate: Why didn't Vansen come back from it? He seemingly didn't get a second look by WWE, he didn't have a noteworthy indie career afterwards (or did he?) - was there any one reason for that? Because, usually (as in, unless you have someone at top level that likes you and sees future in you) once you get out of developmental and tip your toes in the main roster... and you don't go anywhere? You're done. Even if it's due to stuff that you had absolutely no control over. You may even make a small career after it (say, how Kevin Fertig failed with Mordecai and later came as Kevin Vampire DudeThorn), but more times than not that impression is what sticks with management. More so back then, of course.
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Post by cornettesracket on Apr 27, 2022 12:35:38 GMT -5
Well that puts a bit of different spin on things then. Not a much better spin on it but different. Why would taker have a son ? Okay he has a brother but I don’t see how that would’ve worked at all. This is the company that made Jason Jordan Kurt Angle's son and Hornswaggle Vince's son. Undertaker having an English son who looks nothing like him is entirely plausible. Plausible maybe but no less shit.
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Post by crowley1986 on Apr 27, 2022 12:35:57 GMT -5
another similar idea was making Matt Morgan or a train as kanes brother
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Post by asuka007 on Apr 27, 2022 13:03:23 GMT -5
Yeah, Hunter, completely unbelievable for a smaller guy to compete with Taker. Nobody could have believable matches with Undertaker, right Trips? Definitely not your best friend, Shawn, especially. Not like Brock Lesnar, who’s a physical freak of nature, has sold his ass off for smaller guys repeatedly before and it’s been awesome either. My favorite Triple H story is when he said that it would “not be believable” for a guy like Kurt Angle to take him in a fight. And one of the old timers (It might have been Pat Patterson or Gerald Briscoe) said essentially “oh, then go try and shoot take him and see how that goes for you.” And Hunter sat down and shut up agates that.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 27, 2022 13:13:24 GMT -5
I genuinely like Hunter, I actually think some of his publicity is accurate, because he has grown as a person at all in the most forced ways. He started investing in women's wrestling, notably after having had daughters that he would definitely push. He started helping other guys backstage instead of trying to bury everyone because he no longer was wrestling full time, eventually becoming Papa H. He started using his arrogance when he did wrestle to try to get people over like and started losing matches more often.
Stopping wrestling was the best thing to happen to his legacy. What an asshole.
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Post by Nosnorb on Apr 27, 2022 13:15:13 GMT -5
Least they could have done for Hade after killing his angle and gimmick, was to at least see if he could make a Mr Arse gimmick work.
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Post by asuka007 on Apr 27, 2022 13:21:27 GMT -5
Kane was supposed to be a 1 PPV gimmick at first. But Taker liked working with Glenn Jacobs, so they kept him around.
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Apr 27, 2022 13:33:49 GMT -5
I guess I’m the only one thinking that sounds like shit and am glad Hunter prevented it?
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Post by chazraps on Apr 27, 2022 13:34:16 GMT -5
Prior to this, Hade was tagging with Jon Moxley in Puerto Rico and by all accounts they were a great heat magnet tag team. Was hoping he'd resurface someday.
Great hearing Freddie confirm all the Triple H stories we heard online in the aughts that were chalked up by some to just being internet rumors (or "rumours" overseas) at the time.
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Post by Dub H on Apr 27, 2022 13:55:12 GMT -5
One among the many reasons I wont ever buy the "Papa H" persona,dude is a politician and is as honest as a 3 dollar Bill
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Post by eJm on Apr 27, 2022 14:02:57 GMT -5
I guess I’m the only one thinking that sounds like shit and am glad Hunter prevented it? It does but as other mentioned, feels unfair to the guy to throw him under the bus like that. And Hade's career basically never recovered, especially coming at a time when British Wrestling wasn't that long before a renaissance of some kind he basically had no part of.
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Post by DSR on Apr 27, 2022 14:05:14 GMT -5
One among the many reasons I wont ever buy the "Papa H" persona,dude is a politician and is as honest as a 3 dollar BillYall$
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