WWE: Triple H Clarifies His Comments on Fans Online Criticisms Over His Booking, Ricky Saints on “Tony Fumbled” Chants in NXT & He Would Rather Not Put Somebody Else Down, CM Punk on Being in Main Event of WrestleMania

Triple H Clarifies His Comments on Fans Online Criticisms Over His Booking

Throughout interviews held over this past week, WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque made several very negative comments directed at online wrestling fans and his issues with them complaining over his booking of storylines and build for WrestleMania 41. Among his comments included him saying ” This will sound defensive. I wish I could tell people ‘fuck off’ being a critic. Be a fan. Go watch this and be a fan” during a recent interview with WWE’s Peter Rosenberg.

Friday’s episode of The Pat McAfee Show featured Levesque as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Levesque clarifying what he meant about his issues with online fans complaining over his booking of late.

“If I tell you that I saw a movie and I thought it was great and you should go see it. You just go see it, you’re a fan, you go watch it, you like it or you didn’t, whatever. If I say, ‘Go watch that movie, give me a report on it, tell me all the things that worked and all the things that didn’t,’ you go watch that movie differently. That’s my point. At some point, you loved this. You loved it more than anything and you grew up watching it and you’re invested and you went as a fan and for some reason you got into being a critic or someone asked you to be a critic and now you’re hypercritical. To me, that ruins the experience for people. I don’t want to go watch a movie or anything else and just criticize everything I see. I just want to go see if I enjoy the movie. People will criticize this. I don’t put a lot of stock into what is on the internet unless it follows through to other things we do. When Jey Uso won the Rumble, there were a lot of people that had their thoughts, opinions, and comments on that, which is all they are at the end of the day. There are 15,000 people in a venue and it’s been sold out all the time, yeeting and going absolutely crazy when he comes out. Who do we listen to? The few people or the large crowd. We have a focus group every single night of a lot of people who are, in that moment, fans. Not being critics, not being anything else. People are allowed to love what they love and dislike what they dislike, and their opinions are their opinions, but you cannot base things on the opinion of some when the majority feels differently. When the majority starts to feel it, that’s when you gotta listen.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Ricky Saints Comments on “Tony Fumbled” Chants in NXT & He Would Rather Not Put Somebody Else Down

Good Karma Wrestling held a recent interview with current NXT North American Champion Ricky Saints. One of the topics discussed included Saints’ thoughts about the “Tony Fumbled” chants by NXT crowds directed at his former boss AEW CEO Tony Khan.

“My reaction is, it’s not about what happened in the past. Let’s focus on now and my work that I’m doing now. I appreciate the sentiment that they care about me and have opinions about the situation, but let’s not put somebody else down.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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CM Punk Comments on Being in Main Event of WrestleMania 41

A recent episode of The Ringer Wrestling Show podcast featured CM Punk as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Punk’s thoughts about why he was so obsessed for years with wanting to be in the main event of a WrestleMania.

“The reason why I was so obsessed with the main event of WrestleMania is pay scale. There isn’t a single person that can criticize me that can explain professional wrestling pay scale. If I’m in the main event, I get paid more money. That does not exist anymore. Everybody is on flat salary, and we get paid stupid money for what we do, and yes, I do think we should all get paid more based on things I see the company doing and shouting from the rooftops of how much money TKO is making, but I’m 46, I don’t need money at this point in my life. Biggie was right; more money, more problems. I hate it, so much.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com