Post by Pennyroyal_Tea (admin) on Jan 31, 2005 15:53:34 GMT -5
AG: Looking back at the “Montreal Screw job,” do you believe that the right decision was made?
HHH: Definitely! Our business is what it is, sports entertainment. If a movie producer tells Mel Gibson that at the end of the movie you’re going to die, he doesn’t go back and say, “I’m a big star in North America, so I’m not going to die.” Bret Hart said, “I’m a hero in Canada, I can’t lose this belt and I’m leaving by the way tomorrow or whatever it is to go work for another company. Therefore you’ll just have to take my word for it, that I’ll get the belt back to you.” That couldn’t happen. If I came up tomorrow and said you know what, I’m a big star in the United States, I’m a hero in the United States, so I’m not losing anymore in the United States, do you think that would be ok? The same is the case for what Bret Hart was doing. What I get is that it’s real in Canada and not real in the United States? To me, the evil party in that was Bret Hart. He didn’t want to do business and yet he’s “gloried’ because of that. Vince McMahon owns a company where we tell the stories that he’s wanting to tell and Bret refused to tell the story, so Vince made it happen.
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AG: What is your official title with the company?
HHH: Wrestler!
AG: You don’t have an outside business title then?
HHH: I’m an independent contractor, just like every other single wrestler that we have under contact. It’s my only job with the company. All the extra business related tasks that I do, whether that is attending creative meetings or production meetings, its just extra. I’m not required to do any of that. I don’t get paid to do it. I do it because I care about the business. One of the things that people don’t understand is that Vince and I have had a creative relationship together, where Vince respected my opinion, for whatever reasons, as far back as the days of Shawn and me teaming together in “DX.” I was in on conference calls then to determine creative. In actuality it was before we did the “DX” gimmick. Half the time I’m in on these calls, it’s not about me. I’m in there talking about storylines, creative and other things for these other people. I don’t have to do any of it.
To read the rest of Triple H's interview with pwinsider.com, go to www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=7992&p=1
HHH: Definitely! Our business is what it is, sports entertainment. If a movie producer tells Mel Gibson that at the end of the movie you’re going to die, he doesn’t go back and say, “I’m a big star in North America, so I’m not going to die.” Bret Hart said, “I’m a hero in Canada, I can’t lose this belt and I’m leaving by the way tomorrow or whatever it is to go work for another company. Therefore you’ll just have to take my word for it, that I’ll get the belt back to you.” That couldn’t happen. If I came up tomorrow and said you know what, I’m a big star in the United States, I’m a hero in the United States, so I’m not losing anymore in the United States, do you think that would be ok? The same is the case for what Bret Hart was doing. What I get is that it’s real in Canada and not real in the United States? To me, the evil party in that was Bret Hart. He didn’t want to do business and yet he’s “gloried’ because of that. Vince McMahon owns a company where we tell the stories that he’s wanting to tell and Bret refused to tell the story, so Vince made it happen.
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AG: What is your official title with the company?
HHH: Wrestler!
AG: You don’t have an outside business title then?
HHH: I’m an independent contractor, just like every other single wrestler that we have under contact. It’s my only job with the company. All the extra business related tasks that I do, whether that is attending creative meetings or production meetings, its just extra. I’m not required to do any of that. I don’t get paid to do it. I do it because I care about the business. One of the things that people don’t understand is that Vince and I have had a creative relationship together, where Vince respected my opinion, for whatever reasons, as far back as the days of Shawn and me teaming together in “DX.” I was in on conference calls then to determine creative. In actuality it was before we did the “DX” gimmick. Half the time I’m in on these calls, it’s not about me. I’m in there talking about storylines, creative and other things for these other people. I don’t have to do any of it.
To read the rest of Triple H's interview with pwinsider.com, go to www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=7992&p=1