Triple H: WWE doesn't need to evolve, UFC does

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                    <p>Hunter Hearst Helmsley (real name Paul Michael Levesque)&nbsp; is poised to inherit the WWE from his father-in-law Vince McMahon - Triple H is married in real life to Vince McMahon's daughter Stephanie. The WWE&nbsp;headliner was recently interviewed on AOL Moviefone, to promote the newest WWE Studios film 'Inside Out'. The topics covered included Brock Lesnar, and competition between the new and former kinds of PPV.</p>

Moviefone: How do you think WWE and pro wrestling needs to evolve as UFC and MMA grows in popularity?

Triple H: I don't think we have to evolve. 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. And then he did well, and he beat some guys and then people jump on his bandwagon going "Brock's the greatest."

I'm good friends with Floyd Mayweather and Floyd would be the first to tell ya, "I make the most money in boxing and I have the biggest buyers because I have the biggest mouth." He'd be the first guy to tell you that. That's what it's about.

Sports is entertainment.

MF: Brock left wrestling under controversial terms because he chose to walk away while he was still young, rather than stay on for too long.

HHH: Well [the terms] weren't controversial. Brock's a country bumpkin. And I don't mean that in a derogatory way. Brock just wants to be on his farm and he doesn't like being famous. He doesn't want to be bothered. Before he left, he was talking about buying a prop plane, and hiring a guy to fly him so he wouldn't have to go to airports ever. He could just literally fly from town to town so he wouldn't have to see anybody, go to the building and wrestle. That's the one thing about what we do for a living: you go to the ring twenty minutes every night, it's the highlight of your day. But you're on the road a couple 100 days of the year, that twenty minutes a night, that is the juice.

The rest of the time is the pain-in-the-butt stuff that you have to do to get you to the twenty minutes a night. It's the flying, it's the airports, the hotels, it's the rent-a-cars. You go through all of that stuff to get to that twenty minutes of adrenaline and then you go to the next town and you do it all over again. And Brock just couldn't deal with the other twenty three hours and forty minutes of the day outside of his 20 minutes in the ring. He loved that twenty minutes in the ring. The rest of it? Not so much.

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Says the UFC needs more excitement and then points to PBF as the example?

C'mon Mr Triple, you need more balloons and bright colours to try and attract a younger audience, not and older one. Phone Post

Personally I'd love flying around, banging groupies, being famous, being on national tv every week, staying in fancy hotels over my boring cubicle life. I chose the wrong career.

Didn't he just star in a action "comedy" where he has to take care of kids?  Oh yeah, he did.  No need to take anything he says seriously.




WWE believes in intelligent design?

 HHH: Reality is so messy. NBA, NFL, MLB only good in close but exciting games. So let's forget reality and fake everything.



"As unreal as it gets" is ultimately a losing slogan.

He has a point about the post fight interviews.

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suBJJective warMTh - Says the UFC needs more excitement and then points to PBF as the example?

C'mon Mr Triple, you need more balloons and bright colours to try and attract a younger audience, not and older one. Phone Post

Say what you will may's trash talk has made him into the biggest draw in boxing today, despite his no risk fight style. Thats what triple h is saying.

Look at volkmann, whole career no one talks about him, or mentions him anywhere. Makes Obama comment and he's on fox news.

Same goes for sonnen, of he hadnt started his talking, he'd probably be prelims still. Phone Post


Volkmann was featured as an "and finally" type lighthearted story everywhere that I saw and the other two are world class athletes who have many notable performances to their names.

My point was obviously referring to him slating real sports action for being boring and then heralding the most notorious boring sportsman as the answer. Phone Post

cool yeah your fake fights are so exciting

triple H awesome show great job

there may be some boring fights but when you get the good ones and the exciting ones, it's incredible to watch because it's really happening

and mayweather's fights are real too

he does what he does to hype it up but he also goes in there and fights a real fight and doesn't use steroids

the reason people hated what brock did is because that type of shit appeals to a low ass denominator

save that shit for the jerry springer crowd

HHH understands the business, there's a reason the WWE have been an international juggernaut for so many years.

Few decent points in the midst of the usual shit points.

HHH has done very well for himself in all facets of life. He makes good points too. Fighters who refuse to stand out will get lost in the shuffle. Phone Post

Hunter Hearst Helmsley (real name Paul Michael Levesque) is poised to inherit the WWE from his father-in-law Vince McMahon.


And once this happens - it will be the beginning of the end for The WWE.

Lots of BS but some are gold.

Promoting yourself is a good way to get paid, but you also need to be good and win in a very exciting fashion especially in a high-profile fight. Phone Post

tres_equis_666 - Lots of BS but some are gold. <br><br>Promoting yourself is a good way to get paid, but you also need to be good and win in a very exciting fashion especially in a high-profile fight. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>


if the fighter is boring, people will stop paying to see you fight.

 Looks like CM Punk disagrees






Ariel Helwani 




Nice. RT : Triple H: UFC Needs to Evolve More Than WWE” RIDICULOUS!!!!! Laugh out loud ignorance.


So many haters... Say what you want but the WWE is huge... I'm sure many of you used to watch it in your younger years or still do just refuse to admit it... He makes many good points... Say what you want the interview process is horrible... And the hype jobs are a joke... Listening to GSP say in his robotic voice that every fighter he fights is his biggest test ever is horrible... And there is a reason Manny and Mayweather get a entire series based on their upcoming fight and the UFC reruns the same show time and time again... People actually watch 24/7... Some of his other comments are wrong but he is a smart business man no matter how much you guys try to hate on him and the WWE it will keep going strong. Phone Post

TKOkami'd by the GOAT -  Looks like CM Punk disagrees

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CM Punk is hyping his appearance on Ariel's radio show lol

Well, CM Punk just responded to Triple H on twitter: (sorry Abe)

@MMAFighting Triple H: UFC Needs to Evolve More Than WWE aol.it/qVzzuK”

@CM Punk RIDICULOUS!!!!!
Laugh out loud ignorance. Phone Post

Says the king of the most boring era in pro wrestling.