Meltzer:
“This is twice that I went through a freakin’ guilt trip. The first time, if you recall, was when he did the quote on Sports Illustrated and he was like, ‘the Young Bucks called Dave Meltzer and blah blah blah about whatever’. Which was a couple of weeks before the big blowup. And then everything happened there, and you all know that I thought, ‘Man, I should have just told him that the Young Bucks had nothing to do with it’.”
“Now do I really believe anything would have happened differently? Probably not, but you just don’t know, and I kind of feel like I was – it wasn’t my job to do it, but it kind of was. Not ‘job’, but I just felt really bad and real guilty, I should have just said, ‘These guys had nothing to do with this’. But whatever.”
“So then this time, I did a message board post, that I really wish I never did because so much has happened since then in so many destructive ways. Not just him. It was somebody just going, ‘One thing we can say was it was all smooth as far the match that he lost to Moxley, the real quick match before he beat him for the title’. And I just kind of said, ‘It really wasn’t that smooth’ because it really wasn’t, there was a lot going on. There was drama and everything.”
“And so then it’s like, he kind of blasted Moxley too a bit, and certainly blasted Jericho, and this was at the time when everyone is trying to… see if you can make up, and make this thing work, and do the best thing for the company. And then this happens which just… how it’s gonna turn out, who the hell knows, but it certainly is never a good time to do that. And Jericho had absolutely nothing to do with this message (board) post. Nor did Moxley. And now it’s like, ‘Ah, god’. I just didn’t like this.”
“Well now we’re at the point where it’s something, and look, the guy’s a draw, or he was a draw, and he may, look he’s the biggest draw in the history of the company, so the guy’s a draw. Historically, is the promoter gonna try to bring him in? Yes. But this situation is unique because things have happened and not everyone’s gonna be happy with it and you’ve gotta get people on the same page, which I always said, they’ve got to get everyone on the same page, if he comes in and everyone is just furious and doesn’t want it, it’s gonna create a lot of unrest in the company, and you don’t want that.”
“People go like, ‘Oh, screw the wrestlers, it’s up to people to make money’. A messed up dressing room is just gonna end up being destructive and people are gonna quit, and there’ll be more issues that’ve happened there that we’ve already seen. So you want the best dressing room.”
“Anyway, I have no idea how this is gonna turn out, but it was probably, I don’t know, if I had anything to do with it, I’m really sorry that I didn’t… you know it’s funny because it makes no difference probably, but if I had just said, ‘This is the story, he was just coming off of an injury and the injury played a part in this in the timing of everything and how it went down’. And if he got mad and said I was a liar at that point, okay, it’s fine. It wasn’t me, but when he said that about the other guys, it was like, that’s not gonna be great for the dressing room. And I sense that a lot. Will they just laugh it off? I don’t know. It’s just something that it’s just sad to me how it all went down.”
