Matt Hardy recently discussed several topics on an episode of his podcast, “The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy.” One topic was WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s claim that R-Truth’s release from WWE was merely a storyline. Hardy expressed that Levesque seems reluctant to admit he was wrong about the situation.
Hardy said, “You know, I get where Hunter is coming from. He doesn’t want to come straight out and admit he’s wrong, he probably wants to try and leave — make it be as mysterious as possible like, oh, was it a work, was it a shoot? Who knows, let’s leave it kind of open-ended. Let’s leave it mysterious so people really don’t know. I almost feel like we’re at that time in pro wrestling where when you’re doing those post-show press conferences and you’re trying to be a legitimate to a degree, obviously you’re going to have characters come out and do character stuff, right? I think when you’re in Triple H’s role, you have to be as transparent as possible, especially to give the media as much faith as they possibly can have. I think you don’t have to make it out like you’re the bad guy and you were a million times wrong. I think you could say, ‘Hey, this thing happened, and the fans showed how much they loved Ron Killings and they wanted him back and we listened to our fans.’ I think it could have been that simple.”
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(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
