Do People Believe this HHH Story?

[Matt D]

Just humor me. I'm curious how this one will go. It's anonymous so don't worry about Johnny Sorrow coming after you or anything.

 

I think it primarily came from Powerslam, sourced from a former WWE writer.

 

“I remember being nervous the first time I delivered the script to the McMahon dressing room where HHH would dress (he would never use the locker rooms with the rest of the boys). When HHH answered I told him the RAW script was ready for his review. On the first occasion, he grabbed the script, flipped through it but did not read it, and asked me point-blank: ‘Am I f***ing going over?’ This first time that I delivered the script to him, he did indeed win his match, so I said yes. Then he politely gave the script back to me without reading it and said, ‘That’s all I needed to know,’ and walked back into the McMahon locker room. A few months later when Gewirtz had another weekend off, I delivered another RAW script to him on a PPV Sunday. And it was the same routine. He nonchalantly flipped through it and said, ‘Am I f***ing going over?’ This time, however, he was to lose his match via disqualification. He would keep his title. I said to him, ‘Well, sort of.’ Then Hunter froze. He said, ‘What do you f***ing mean, sort of?’ I said, ‘You lose the match via DQ, so you still keep the title.’, ‘What page?’ he growled. After I told Hunter the page number this occurred on, he ripped that page out, threw the rest of the script to the floor in a rage, and slammed the door in my face. Needless to say, the next day during the agents’ meeting, the script had somehow changed and now HHHwon his match – cleanly. This was hardly an isolated incident.”

[Loss]

I think it's actually from Ring of Hell. And no, I don't believe it. Even if you believe HHH is a master manipulator, it's not his style.

[WingedEagle]

Not buying it.

[Exposer]

Nah, Trips is too much of a coward to do anything that blatant.

[shoe]

I think it's actually from Ring of Hell. And no, I don't believe it. Even if you believe HHH is a master manipulator, it's not his style.

Yep Ring of Hell. No way does he do that.

[kjh]

Matthew Randazzo wrote a few columns for PowerSlam after Ring of Hell was published, so it could have come from there. My answer is who the f*** knows for sure. That said, even if you take everything with a big pinch of salt from his book and articles, clearly the WWE creative team is a dysfunctional workplace by any normal standards.

[BigBadMick]

I read that in Power Slam, in 2008 I think.

 

Don't believe it.

[Timbo Slice]

None chance. Still remember the limo story from Ring of Hell and I think he worked the hell out of him just like he does Shoemaker.

[Jimmy Redman]

I don't believe this happened.

 

I can believe that a staff writer would have had a hard time dealing with Hunter or been intimidated by him. I can believe that Hunter (along with a lot of top guys) would only care enough about the night's script to check if he was winning or losing his match. I can believe that a guy with the sway of Hunter successfully argued to have the finish of a match changed between first draft and the show.

 

I can believe that a lot of kernels of truth went into constructing this story, but the story itself sounds incredibly far fetched.

[dexstar]

Whenever I read that story I picture HHH laughing about how he was fucking with the new guy mark writer as soon as he left the room.

[sek69]

Whenever I read that story I picture HHH laughing about how he was fucking with the new guy mark writer as soon as he left the room.

 

That's the only way I could believe that story, I could totally see Hunter just fucking with the noobs. Otherwise, it just seems like something written as fanfic designed as fap material for people who think Hunter is the devil.

[Jingus]

When Ring of Hell was first published, I remember lots of people (including some on this board) defending it as gospel. What changed?

[Death From Above]

Here's what I think of Triple H: I voted no without reading it, then read the thread and I felt fine.

[Matt D]

This is pretty definitive. I'm going to do one more though.

[jushin muta liger]

When Ring of Hell was first published, I remember lots of people (including some on this board) defending it as gospel. What changed?

It was more 50/50. I went through the Ring of Hell Thread a couple of months ago cause I read some chapters of it during a weekend and it was back and forth on what was truth and fiction.

 

I voted no btw.

[Loss]

I think we were more inclined to believe it because a lot of us felt like wrestling had no redeeming qualities at all and that everyone involved was corrupt and evil in the wake of how they handled the media post-Benoit. With some distance, I think most of us acknowledge now that wrestling has a dark underbelly, but that it's also a little bit more complex than that, and that a lot of the initial reaction to wrestling circling its wagons was a bit polemic.

[thebrainfollower]

Not something he'd do. Something he'd THINK sure but I don't buy it happening.

[Mad Dog]

No.

 

Beware of stories that conform to your biases too closely because it probably isn't true

[Death From Above]

Not something he'd do. Something he'd THINK sure but I don't buy it happening.

 

Here's the thing. Triple H is noted as a really good corporate guy behind the scenes. A guy that can talk with the media, non-wrestling people etc. And is really good at coming across as professional in his manner.

 

Even if he wanted to manipulate things this blatantly, I legitimately believe he'd be more subtle about it than this based on what we know about him.

[Mad Dog]

If this happened I could also see it as him just fucking with the new guy too.

[RyanClingman]

This thread gave me false hope for the return of PowerSlam. I was a religious reader of PowerSlam, but don't remember this. I still have some old issues, so if someone has a month or issue number I may be able to verify.

[fakeplastictrees]

I believe it. I am not sure why some people are saying that this is completely out of the realm of possibility. A top star who is only interested in what he/she is doing that night? If I was in WWE at the time, why would I give a shit what Al Snow or Bob Holly are doing that night? Also, factor other mental and physical demands on the job, its not that crazy that the last thing on HHH's mind is reading an entire script from start-to-finish.

[Laz]

Or that he'd be particularly focused on going over during his reign of terror on Raw.

 

I don't think it's 100% true, but given what so many people there at the time have said about morale I'm willing to believe it's more truth than fiction.

[SteveJRogers]

I believe it. I am not sure why some people are saying that this is completely out of the realm of possibility. A top star who is only interested in what he/she is doing that night? If I was in WWE at the time, why would I give a shit what Al Snow or Bob Holly are doing that night? Also, factor other mental and physical demands on the job, its not that crazy that the last thing on HHH's mind is reading an entire script from start-to-finish.

 

I think its the unprofessional and pure douchebag piece of shit aspect that people are responding to. Its pretty much a more shit bag like version of Jericho's crumpling up a script and throwing it out while the writer watches story (which Jericho has said happened). And as far as people can tell, Paul Levesque has never been seen to be such an overt unprofessional, even in private. Sure it may be true that he looked at his match's finish and then bitched to get it changed, but to have an unprofessional outburst like that in front of the new writer does smack of something that would be out of character for him, or him ribbing the new writer.

[Loss]

The reason people are doubting it is that HHH, based on rep, seems more likely to start working Vince to make him think it was his idea to change it. Plus, HHH wasn't really known for refusing to do jobs as much as he was doing them in a way that they meant nothing, to people who weren't likely to threaten his spot.