MVP has never been afraid to speak his mind in an interview and he’s not holding back with his latest comments regarding WWE’s head of creative content, Triple H.
The pair were full-time WWE talents for a number of years starting from MVP’s main roster debut back in 2006 and while he has been vague with exactly what has happened between the pair professionally, the former United States champion has been clear he’s not a fan of The Game for a long time.
Bret Hart is another legend who feels the same way. The Hitman, despite accepting a WWE Hall of Fame induction (his third) earlier this year, recently slammed Triple H during an Inside the Ropes show.
When the subject of WWE’s Chief Content Officer came up during the event, Hart dismissed Triple H as “a guy I have very little respect for”, labelling him “a phony” and somebody who “became Vince’s hit guy.”
Not for the first time, MVP has echoed Hart’s statements.
“Man, I agree with Bret’s assertion. I’ve said before, I call him a coward and a liar. Let’s put it like this, if you really want to, you can go to YouTube and you can look up the interviews of various wrestlers through the years of what their opinion is of the man.
“Interviews of guys that were his friends, what they had to say about the guy. I can think of more guys that dislike him than I can think of guys that do like him, and people say MVP’s salty or bitter. Like, no, I have personal issues with the dude, stemming from professional stuff, but just the things that he does, how he carries himself, I just don’t have respect for the guy.
“The newer generation, they don’t know that guy yet. So the (ones) of those that came up underneath him in NXT, they think he’s brilliant and a lot of them should for the hand he’s had in their career.
“But the guys that had to work with him back in the day will tell you a different story almost overwhelmingly, and so it’s not just me saying it. There’s guys who are way up the totem pole than me that are telling you that this guy’s no bueno.”
A combination of factors have led to Triple H reinventing his image in the professional wrestling industry.
There’s no shortage of stories speaking to his selfish, ruthless nature during his working days and he was prepared to do whatever it took to stay on top.
That’s admirable to some, but certainly not to the peers he had no problem treading on.
However, he headed up NXT, recruited fantastic talent from the indies with the help of William Regal, had a fantastic NXT product from 2014-2019 and eventually inherited the WWE main roster after Vince McMahon’s disgraced retirement.
McMahon’s creative juices had long gone stale, so an uptick in the WWE product was an almost certainty under Triple H, but the money-making Bloodline story – which was already underway before he came into full power – certainly led his charge.
So, NXT and a new boom of WWE business has led to Triple H being viewed in a saviour-like light by some fans and perhaps the talents that have blossomed under him. But, as MVP states, not everyone forgets the man they have known for years prior.
