Triple H Addresses Botched Pin Attempt In Damian Priest vs. Seth Rollins Match

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At the 2024 WWE Money in the Bank PLE, a pinfall was botched during World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest’s match against Seth Rollin. Rollins attempted to cover after hitting a falcon arrow, and Priest did not kick out, but the referee stopped the count.

While speaking to the media after the show, Paul “Triple H” Levesque addressed the botch.

Triple H said, โ€œHuman beings in a ring, mistakes happen, things happen, it is what it is. Itโ€™s funny for me now looking at that โ€“ if that was something I was involved in as a talent, I donโ€™t care how good the rest of it was, that would be all I would think about. And to me, itโ€™s a shame that thatโ€™s all people will talk about and thatโ€™s all people will hit Damian Priest with while he had a phenomenal performance tonight. But a bunch of people will attack that, criticize that, comment on that. I donโ€™t know why, thatโ€™s just the negative so outweighs the positive sometimes.”

He continued, “And to me, I wish I could just go in the back, shut off his phone, have no-one talk to him for a while, and just have him think about all the other great stuff that happened in that, and the roll that heโ€™s been on, and how great of a job he has done as World Champion. And what heโ€™s done to get there and deserve it, because he deserves all the credit in the world for all those things, and he has stepped up to a place where when you see him as a performer now, I feel like Iโ€™m watching a champion come out. I feel like Iโ€™m watching a top tier guy. Thatโ€™s on him, thatโ€™s how he has handled himself and made himself own that position. Heโ€™s done an incredible job of it. Iโ€™m incredibly proud of him as a performer. Late in his career, right? To get to this level, something that no-one thought he would ever be able to do, heโ€™s got himself in incredible shape, done an unbelievable job. I hate for it to be like, โ€˜Oh yeah, youโ€™re that guy that didnโ€™t kick out the one timeโ€™. Thatโ€™s the shame part to me, because his performance tonight was off the charts, as was Sethโ€™s, as was Drewโ€™s, as was Punkโ€™s, as was everybody else in this show tonight. Itโ€™s just the way the world works.โ€