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Chris Jericho Discusses Bret Hart Ripping Triple H,Royal Rumble
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By: tnafanforum Date: February 6, 2013, 10:08 am
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This is what Jericho had to say about Bret Hart's comments on
HHH:
"It was funny because when I saw that comment that Bret had
said, I was kind of surprised because I think that Triple H has
had a lot of great matches, dozens of great matches. I could
think of two or three that I was in with him myself, so, maybe,
I don't know why Bret would say that, maybe it's still a little
bit personal or some bad vibes or taste in his mouth from what
happened years ago. But I'll tell you face to face that Triple H
has had many great matches and I always enjoyed watching him
work, even up to the match he had with Lesnar. I don't know if
that was a great match, it was definitely a very good one, so I
would definitely never ever bury Triple H's wrestling talent for
sure I think he's one of the best we've ever seen."
What benefit does it have for Bret Hart to make those comments?
"He's saying it just because, old, old, old wounds die hard, or
whatever the cliché is. You know, I'm sure Bret has made his
peace with Shawn over the Montreal Screw Job; maybe he still has
some lingering issues with Triple H as part of that. I don't
know, cuz I think Bret is very much one of my favorites of all
time, one of my top two or three as a matter of fact, but maybe
there's a little bit of bias in this or something like that for
him to say that Triple H has had no great matches. Cuz I don't
think anybody could ever say that he's had no great matches. You
might say "well this guy's a jerk" or "I don't like him
personally" or "backstage I don't like him" or "politically I
don't like him", but there's one thing you can never doubt with
Triple H and that's his wrestling ability, especially as a main
event performer, like you said earlier, in the early 2000's as
the top heel in the company, I think you could throw any baby
face's name out there and you could probably match up a quote
unquote great match that he had with that person, for sure.
"Triple H may be a little bit underrated as far as the amount of
flak that he takes over the years, but, as a performer, I'll
tell you straight up he was definitely one of the best, from
that era and even up until last year. The match he had with
Undertaker, the match he had with Undertaker the year before,
both Wrestlemania matches, were both amazing matches. Maybe not
the same levels as the ones Shawn had with him but definitely in
the exact same ballpark. Triple H is just one of those guys,
he's got it, he always has had it, he's a great ring general,
he's very smart in the psychology of putting together his
matches, believable when he works, so definitely definitely
definitely. Like I said, I could give you 3 matches that I had
with him, personally that I thought were great. The Last Man
Standing that we had in Dallas, the title match we had at State
College where I won the title, and then the tag match with me
and Benoit versus Triple H and Austin. All of them were what I
would consider to be some of my best performances, some of my
best matches that I ever had for sure."
Outside your matches with him, what do you think was his best
match ever? Y2J – It's hard to say cuz there's just so many
eras, like you said, I would have thought of the Three Stages of
Hell with Austin, was a great one. I think he had a 60 minute
Iron Man Match that's forgotten against The Rock where Shawn was
the referee, that was great. I think the 3-way with Benoit and
Shawn at Wrestlemania, whatever it was, was amazing. And I think
the ones he had with Undertaker, both of those were great. But
that's the thing, when you get a guy who's had as many great
matches as he has, it's hard to just say here's one or here's
two, you know. There's just so many. There's this one there's
that one there's this one and that one, I mean the Batista
Wrestlemania match was great as well. That's what makes a great
worker, not just a short burst, but longevity of a career, 10-15
years of having great matches with a whole variety of different
opponents and whole variety of styles. You know, that's what
makes a great worker to me."
On his Royal Rumble appearance: "Y2J – Well it's funny because,
2 things about that was, one, I was so happy that it didn't
leak. Like I thought for sure, sooner or later it's going to
leak on a website or dirt sheet or somebody would hear something
and it would get out. But nobody knew that I was there until the
moment that music played. And I think that was such a cool vibe,
that we could still surprise people, still surprise guys like
you who have your finger on the pulse and have spies or contacts
or sources. And that's what wrestling is all about. It's all
about the surprise element that takes you back to when you were
a kid. When I was a kid, we had no internet or no dirt sheets.
All we knew, all I knew, was what was coming by promotions. And
that's how we'd have a surprise. I think of when Dave Hebners
evil twin brother Earl Hebner and they screwed Hulk out of
winning the title. If you would have heard earlier today that
Earl Hebners brother Dave was in the building and they're
identical twins, it would have killed some of that magic. And
that was cool for us to be able to do that at Royal Rumble and
have a complete surprise, legitimate surprise. And then number
two was, I didn't even think about it until afterwards, that I
was in there for so long, like 48 minutes, or whatever it was.
And Vince even asked me after "how did you stay in such good
shape? I was like. I don't know, I'm not sure."
So what do you guys think about what he said about HHH
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