Triple H was asked by Mike Johnson of PWInsider how they teased going in the direction of "blood and guts" with the 2 of 3 Falls main event between
Johnny Gargano and
NXT Champion Adam Cole, which ended in a Steel Cage match that was filled with weapons. Johnson mentioned seeing some blood "but no heavy blood loss" in the match, and
Triple Hquickly corrected him.
"When you say there was very little blood, you mean none. There was no blood," Triple H responded.
Johnson recalled seeing a small bit of blood on Cole's back when the match was over.
"Honest to God, you're going to call me out on that? When he gets scraped on a table... [Inaudible] No, no, honest to God, you're digging deep reaching for this one," Triple H fired back.
Triple H continued, "I gotta tell you guys, there was nothing in that cage, except for the barbed wire at the top, which didn't get used. Did not get used. There was nothing in the cage that you haven't been seeing on TV in WWE consistently, so to say this is some kind of... man, you guys gotta get off your conspiracy theories and stuff, you're digging here but you're making yourself look stupid. You're digging hard for something that ain't there."
Johnson said his point was that Vince just said the company wouldn't be going a certain route, and commented on how they "go left and
NXTgoes a little right" instead. Triple H fired back again.
"What did he say? Blood and guts. Blood - did you see blood? Intentional blood. I'm asking the question... right, you just answered the question. You just answered the question. There wasn't any, so what you're digging for isn't there. The ridiculous thing of this is that there was nothing in there that you have not seen. Barbed wire as a deterrent from people leaving the cage, did not get used. Nobody intentionally bled. There was on blood anywhere. There were chairs, there were kendo sticks, it's all stuff that... different pliers, they weren't needle nosed, but if you want to go there maybe those were different. What else was different? What was the gore and the guts that we went to, that's making you say this is a different turn?," Triple H responded.
Johnson continued and asked how you rectify the idea of not going the direction Vince said they would not be going in, and then tease that with the Takeover main event. Johnson reiterated that he was talking more about the tease, not the actual physicality, and asked if there's a conversation or a point where they say they can't go any further than they did with the Takeover cage match.
Yeah, we didn't go any further," Triple H said. "Like, a tease? We didn't, man. I'm just going to leave it at that. You're digging for something that's not there."
TV14 my ass