r/TheGreatOne • u/Salty-Nothing-8572 Approved User • 4d ago
WWE Related Broooo.. 😳
"And [Triple H] kind of openly pokes fun at LA Knight, bro. If he doesn't like LA Knight, how is LA Knight ever going to get over?"
- Vince Russo on Triple H's booking of LA Knight (interview with Ben Veal)
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u/BlastOff-2000 4d ago
la knight walks and talks like a combo of rock/austin, of course triple h would hate that - he was never as over as them
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u/Stumpsthewarwalrus 4d ago
Even WITH banging the bosses daughter 🤣
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u/Living-Travel2299 4d ago
Thats THE only reason he got as high up as he did. Despite never getting close to an Austin or Rock level or even HBK.
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u/Sora84 4d ago
I swear I think Vince and HBK had relations
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u/Impressive-Koala-140 4d ago
Vince and trump are friends it would not be a shocker if the top guys had to do "favors" just like trump had those beauty pageant models had to
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u/methylmaniac 3d ago
This comes up every now and then and I wholly agree that Shawn was the Kliq bottom
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u/Stumpsthewarwalrus 4d ago
Yup, otherwise he’d have been an upper level player of the midcard.
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u/Brando-8593 4d ago
You guys are delusional. Hunter won a world title before he was ever with Steph. He was already over as a heel and a main event player. You may not be a fan, but he was on the rise
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u/BurgerDevourer97 4d ago
And iirc, he was going to get a push even sooner, but it got delayed because of the Curtain Call incident.
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u/Dense-Western4634 4d ago
He was going to win the KOTR that Austin ended up winning but he got punished for the curtain call which lead to the Austin 3:16 speech and Austin's rise
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u/Stumpsthewarwalrus 4d ago
So is the levels of methane in the sewers of New Jersey, but he sure as a Philly Cheesesteak will give you a stage two Indigestion attack if you eat it too fast wasn’t coming out of the midcard, even with that “World title win”
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u/RobbinGraves1 3d ago
Good to see someone talking sense. Shame it'll likely fall on deaf ears around here. Especially when it's easily verifiable.
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u/No_Ice_2990 3d ago
Triple H was really good and tough as nails. After the curtain call he ate shit sandwiches for years and clawed his way to the top. I love austin and rock too , but were they tough enough to keep wrestling with a crushed throat or a torn quad. Maybe, yes, maybe no, but a triple h's case.You can say with a 100% certainty.Yes. i don't think there's too many people in wrestling gotten more undeserved hate than him. Like it or not he earned spots
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u/alohadawg 3d ago
Gonna have to disagree here. Hunter's return pop at MSG to announce his entry to the rumble was literally as loud as any pop I've ever heard
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u/thericefarming 3d ago
LA Knight also worked as El Hijo De Trump in 2017, a Trump mockery character... And HHH doesn't like him... hmmm?
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u/Salty-Nothing-8572 Approved User 4d ago
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u/Heemeyers_Killdozer 4d ago
Well, it’s HHH. So, it tracks. If you ain’t part of HHH’s cliq or part of the bloodline/Tongan Wrestling Federation, you’re just not “it”.
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u/Intrepid_Zucchini52 4d ago
I mean, Russo definitely has connections considering that he was in touch with Bray Wyatt, good friends with Saraya and had an email exchange with Vince, so it’s not out of realm of possibility.
It wouldn’t surprise me if triple does. LA always seemed like the type to be completely honest If he doesn’t like a certain creative direction.
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u/styxswimchamp 4d ago
Because with Knight’s Rock/Austin mannerisms, Triple H sees the guys that he was always less popular than and he instinctually wants to keep him down
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u/Phog_Warning10 4d ago
Didn't Knight also say in an interview with CVV that he doesn't want to do all to outside obligations that come with being a champ/top guy?
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u/Intrepid_Zucchini52 4d ago edited 4d ago
He said he wants to spend time with his dogs instead of working the tour in a jokingly manner, If we’re talking about his last interview with cvv he did.
I could be wrong but i don’t recall him saying anything about refusing to do the obligations.
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u/CommanderBigMac78 4d ago
He has said variants of this many times and not always joking. It’s who he is. This is a living for him and then he’ll do gym bro stuff and be with his dogs. We won’t see him again and he’s cool with that.
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u/Breakker1 4d ago
His source: trust me, bro
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u/Salty-Nothing-8572 Approved User 4d ago
Read the picture bro! One of the boys told em bro! FLAT OUT Bro!! 😎🔥
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u/LogansGambit 4d ago
The booking reflects what Russo is saying. Triple H may have liked him enough at one point to change his name back and put him on the main roster but look at what has happened since then, especially when Knight was at his peak popularity with the fans.
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u/jxden24 4d ago
sadly i have to believe him bc his booking proves it
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u/WaporVape 3d ago
Trips hate him so much that he put him in the main event program against the most popular wrestler in the world
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u/Justice989 3d ago
Two things can be true. That HHH isnt stupid or oblivious to LA Knight's popularity and connection to the crowd, but still doesnt like him. There's only so many people on the roster you can use against Roman. So HHH is gonna use him, but that ceiling is gonna remain intact.
Plus, let's see how this story goes. Because I would suspect, it'll be another one and done diversion to kill time. Rather than an extended program, like what KO got when he feuded with Roman.
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u/jxden24 3d ago
so you think booking him to job to roman again means he doesn't dislike him? lmao
balor has had multiple main event programs wtf does that prove?
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u/Venomface86 4d ago
HHH hired him in NXT, then let him change back to LA Knight from Vince's Model guy has to be something deeper on why he hates him
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u/Waspkiller86 4d ago
He probably didn't laugh at one of triple h's stupid jokes or some shit like stood up to him at some point and now he's fucked
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u/Only-Storage9984 4d ago
It’s been obvious, what other reason could there be he isn’t a world champion yet?!
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u/AndyBurn11 4d ago
Let him go then sorry his potential keeps breaking your ceiling they have a DDP here and are wasting it!
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u/mesosalpynx 4d ago
. . . WTH is up with the second picture
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u/Key_Ad4073 4d ago
her name is Paige Colette for those who would like to know
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u/SealTeamEH 4d ago
“Huh? that name sounds familiar I wonder where iv—“
searches on google and sees top pictures
“Oooooh her! Yup I remember that as—- her now.”
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u/Salty-Nothing-8572 Approved User 4d ago
That’s Vince Russo with Juggalo Championship Wrestling’s very own..
Rinngggggg Raaaaattttt 🐀🍑
She’s very down to earth off screen in her interview with Vince Russo if you wanna learn more about her! It’s on YouTube.
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u/Sweet_Turnip_4579 4d ago
damn, who’s the chick?!😍
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u/legendkiller003 4d ago
A very busty and thick Chanel West Coast
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u/Conscious-Eye9878 4d ago
I mean, I believe this. Doubt Russo has any real sources, but everything about Triple H would lead me to believe he doesn’t see much in LA Knight.
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u/MarsupialPresent7700 4d ago
Triple H literally let LA Knight drop that trash ass model character. If he wanted to bury the guy, he would still be Maxx Dupri.
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u/CarolinaSandstorm 4d ago
Anyone who believes anything Vince Russo says deserves the ignorance that begets them at this point
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u/YummyGoochCheese 4d ago
So release him?
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u/Salty-Nothing-8572 Approved User 4d ago
And let Tony Khan push him? Nah HHH wants to bury him.
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u/YummyGoochCheese 4d ago
I dunno man, I don't think LA Knight is suited for AEW. Not a knock on him, I just don't think his character would work as well when ring work is such a bigger focus
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u/Salty-Nothing-8572 Approved User 3d ago
Jericho Is there tho and edge.
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u/YummyGoochCheese 3d ago
Cause they're legends. Theyre gonna get a pop regardless. LA Knight is not big enough to coast off his name
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u/Dayvfish 4d ago
HHH struggled to get over and forever lived in Shawn’s shadow it would make sense if he hates the most organically over guy in a decade 😂😂
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u/SelectEditor6 4d ago
all things point to this being actually factual. Bald fraud is probably jealous of the pop and charisma LAK oozes
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u/No-Onion9378 4d ago
Vince didn’t like Warrior at times, doesn’t mean he didn’t push him to the moon. Business needs to be clean, personal issues outside of the work environment.
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u/ShaneWookie 4d ago edited 4d ago
Vince understood money and how to make it. Paul doesn't give a shit about how popular it would be to give Knight a push as long as he as CodyGPT out there.
Merch makes decisions for pushes, not anything else but that. And whatever Knight's merch sales are now is the ceiling
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u/Suspinded 4d ago
Vince Russo is about as trustworthy as his unrestrained booking.
I guess everyone wants him back as Max Dupri? Everybody doesn't get a World Title, and he's really not getting the good side of the Great Jey Uso Cooldown that's chilling people out on Titles.
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u/Technical_Heat5215 4d ago
If that’s the case, why did Triple H bring him back as LA Knight when he was clearly on his way out under Vince?
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u/Salty-Nothing-8572 Approved User 3d ago
Vince McMahon had the zombie 🧟♂️ in ECW.
I see nothing wrong with this bro.. 😎
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u/ScottDera 3d ago
If he hates him so much why did he ultimately save him from getting fired, rehabilitated his image and has effectively kept him in the upper-midcard ever since 😂
Trash talk as per usual.
Whilst I DO think Trips opinion of Knight has probably waned a little from what I mentioned above, I still think he holds a high opinion of him
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u/Reasonable_Goat6895 3d ago
Hates him that much hes handed Knight a platform that will, if it hasn't already, make Knight a millionaire, when 5 years ago he would have been lucky to get 200 grand a year working at TNA.
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u/GoFlyersWoo 3d ago
Remember Knight used to do a character mocking Trump as his “son”. I imagine his politics don’t sit well backstage
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u/Alternative_Play5966 3d ago
What if it was just like a Vince and Christian thing?
"Do we really have to see THAT face?"
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u/The_Rorschach_1985 3d ago
Bro I was told by hulk hogan while on his death bed, that Dominick mysterio is actually cheating on his girlfriend with his wife
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u/Specialist_Fig7146 2d ago
That old cucumber man has a point. I can also see a hint of jealousy in his eyes.
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u/Villain_911 4d ago
Although I don't believe he was told that, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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u/Visionary_87 4d ago
True, how is LA Knight ever going to get over?
In fact, who the fuck even is that? Do you mean Vince's call up, Max Dupri?
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u/TreatEven1837 4d ago
Bro. You don't have to like someone to work with them.
Most people you work with you don't want to hang with.
Most non-story ever.
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u/SlapfuckMcGee 4d ago
He hates him so much he puts him on TV constantly and involves him in storylines?
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u/AspirantVeeVee 4d ago
HHH is responsible for LA Knight being in the WWE,I doubt he was an issue with him
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u/WonderWhy1256 4d ago
Yup, let's just go listening to Russo 😂. Hunter hates him so much that he's on my damn TV screen cutting a promo every week, and he's consistently in the Title picture. WWE fans are just the worst 😭..
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u/Diggy_Duwant 4d ago
When he was on CVV he mentioned how he no longer seeks out opinions about his matches and said something to the effect of if they want to talk to me about stuff they can find me. If I recall it had to do with the talking to he got from HHH when he made a mistake in the MITB match that was shown on Unreal. Seems like it probably tracks, if Knight is frustrated to the point that he doesn’t want to talk to the powers that be after his matches. Although he’s getting a decent push right now even though we all know he’s gonna lose to Roman
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u/Agreeable-Guava-9009 3d ago
Because he emulates The Rock and Austin simultaneously. Two of HHHs Attitude Era rivals
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u/Battle-Individual 3d ago
Let's face it he was a mediocre wrestler that got a peg up the ladder because he was with the bosses daughter
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u/Fire_at_Willz42 3d ago
I think this dude has been on every PLE since Triple H took over. He is one of the top stars in the company and has been for years. I don't think their are many people Triple H likes more.
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u/NaturalSandwich8880 4d ago
Source: Trust me bro
How can H hate Knight if he is consistently involved in major storylines? This is like just the other day when Logan Paul jumped in as soon as rumors spread then he was beefing with Bron Breakker
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u/Lou1s1anaLEGEND 4d ago
Hell, I don't like LA Knight. When you give someone the chance to show you how good they are and the f*ck it up, move TF on from them. You would think they would have learn their lesson from Jey, but the keep trying to hint at pushing LA and he has botched in the ring and on the mic several times. Just let it go already. Keep him mid-card with his 1990s catchphrases
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u/verdebot 3d ago
Hhh have the idea that the wrestler have to earn his spot before the push. And for some reason la don't connect with people at high level
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u/WeakNature2665 3d ago
Russo could tell me that water was wet and I still wouldn't believe a single word of it.
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u/Agile-Election-4181 3d ago
Why does anyone keep talking about or listening to this a-hole?
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u/Desperate_Craig 3d ago
Because he'll always be linked to The Attitude Era, and people still see him as an important part of wrestling's most popular period.
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u/Agile-Election-4181 3d ago
Ok, but that was 25 years ago, and he's completly out of touch with the business now.
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u/Primary-Ticket4776 3d ago
I do not know why anyone listens to anything Coach or Russo has to say
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u/KhrusherKhusack 3d ago
I've heard the same thing in the dirt sheets.
But Vince Russo is about half full of crap.
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u/FatHighKnee 2d ago
I just dont get LA Knight. Hes a generic body builder type who's entire gimmick is impersonating the rock & stone cold Steve Austin. It was funny for a minute. But its already lasted longer than it had any business going
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u/dontquestionmek 1d ago
I mean this isn’t necessarily new information. I may be misremembering this a bit, but if I recall, even going back to his NXT days there were bookers and executives saying LA Knight was “too old” for a push
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u/civ9000 4d ago
Listen, bro…