Triple H Interview
Posted by David Damage on Friday, September 16, 2011
Under: Interviews
WWE
star Triple H told Eric Larnick of Moviefone that Ric Flair doesn't
know when to walk away. "Ric is one of my best friends," Triple H said.
"Ric doesn't know when to walk away. Ric doesn't want to be told to walk
away. And Ric can't afford to walk away. Ric has lived every day of his
life like it's the last for almost the fifty years he's been in the
business.
"In Ric's mind, it's still 1982,
he's on top of the world, he's young, he's got a lot of money. Ric has
never questioned spending. We have a term on the road where if you go
out and you have a crazy night that you spent a ludicrous amount of
money or you just lose it one day and you can't go through another
airport and you're trying to get a jet instead, we call it 'Naitching.'
Ridiculously spending money for no point is called 'Naitching.'"
UFC needs to evolve more than WWE. "I don't think we have to evolve,"
Triple H said. "It's two totally different things. I think now
especially there's this thing like, "oh it's very similar. I don't see
us needing to evolve to what UFC does because quite frankly sometimes
the fights are long and boring, guys lying around and sometimes the
fights are fast and over in five seconds.
"I've always thought
one of the things about us, if you look at us solely from a sports
standpoint, is that we always give you a good show. We're never going to
give you a crap game. I think if anybody needs to evolve, it's them.
Give more of an entertainment standpoint. Give more form; they just have
fighters who walk in in T-shirts and shorts and just stand there and
then they fight and then they win and then they go 'thanks, I'd like to
thank my sponsors' and then they leave.
"The whole world was up
in arms when Brock was flipping people off and was cussing at the beer
company because they didn't give him any money and everyone thought, 'oh
my god, he's disrespectful,' -- the whole world was talking about it.
They couldn't wait to see him get beat up." To read the MMA portion of
the interview, visit MMAFighting.com. To read more regarding WWE
studios, visit MovieFone.com
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