Triple H Reportedly Against WWE Utilizing Mick Foley On Television

[Crayo]

Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer was asked by a reader during his radio show (available here) why WWE has not utilized Mick Foley on television more frequently since his return to the organization last November. He said this is due to wrestler/executive Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque’s lobbying, who is resentful of “The Hardcore Legend.”

Meltzer reports Levesque deprecates Foley whenever his name is broached in creative meetings. While Brian Gewirtz, WWE’s Senior Vice President of Creative Writing, feels Foley is a creative and a good performer, Levesque thinks otherwise. He says Foley ‘doesn’t look tough’ and can’t be taken seriously as an in-ring performer.

A former WWE creative writer told Power Slam in 2008 under the condition of anonymity that Levesque would disparage Foley whenever he appeared for the company, and in the process, diminished his value in the eyes of Vince and Stephanie McMahon.

“Foley is an out-of-shape nobody,” Levesque was reported as saying by the writer. “No one cares about him at all. Funaki puts more asses in the seats than Foley does. He should pay us for coming on our shows.”

Meltzer believes the real reason Levesque still holds Foley in contempt is because he gets irritated over the consensus of his closest co-workers that his memorable matches with Foley in 2000 ‘made him a star.’

Foley has criticized Levesque in the past; he took several veiled shots at ‘H in his 2007 autobiography The Hardcore Diaries. He also took issue online with Levesque belittling ring announcer Lilian Garcia with a remark he felt was hurtful during an April 2010 episode of Raw. Foley acknowledged then that he may have cost himself professionally for speaking out against Levesque, but felt he had to stand by his principles.

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Makes me despise Paul even more.

 

[Matt]

:bury: What a jerk :upset:

 

[Dat Girl]

Mick Foley is mah boy! Plus he could put more seats then that shitty tuxedo match between mario and ricky ricardo

 

[Aids Johnson]

IMO, as far as wrestling goes. Foley is god.

 

[Asskicker]

Hey at least Mick Foley isn't a fucking puss. Go suck a dick H you really have nothing to do but get on dicks all day.

 

[Leo C]

That's not right by HHH. Foley is well known and can elevate lots of people, plus, he's fun to watch. He shouldn't despise him because he put him over.

 

[seabs]

Mick with his missing teeth and ear looks like a beaten up old man, give him a piece of barbed wire or a flaming table he looks like a legit fucking hard nut. Why not use that to your advantage? Have him job to a young gun clean twice before setting up a hardcore match when Mick flips, setting up a third hardcore match where the young guy goes over again.

 

[Snowman1]

LOL Dave Meltzer. But this has been reported before.

Senile Vince is immortal, right? Please say so.

 

[Leo C]

Mick with his missing teeth and ear looks like a beaten up old man, give him a piece of barbed wire or a flaming table he looks like a legit F**cking hard nut. Why not use that to your advantage? Have him job to a young gun clean twice before setting up a hardcore match when Mick flips, setting up a third hardcore match where the young guy goes over again.

Simple method of putting people over. I hope they do something like this with Ambrose. Ambrose comes out and beats Mick twice, than Foley goes off and Ambrose still beats him in a Hardcore Match, as you said. Great idea.

 

[Donald Trump_]

Mick with his missing teeth and ear looks like a beaten up old man, give him a piece of barbed wire or a flaming table he looks like a legit F**cking hard nut. Why not use that to your advantage? Have him job to a young gun clean twice before setting up a hardcore match when Mick flips, setting up a third hardcore match where the young guy goes over again.

Fire isn't allowed in PG Era remember?

 

[Leo C]

Fire isn't allowed in PG Era remember?

The barbed wire will do just fine by itself. :burns:

 

[I'll See Ya Kia]

Does Hunter like anyone?

 

[Dat Girl]

Does Hunter like anyone?

Yeah, he likes HHH, the guy who lead evolution, Paul, and the other guy from DX, not HBK, the dude with the sledgehammer.

 

[I'll See Ya Kia]

+1

 

[Donald Trump_]

Yeah, he likes HHH, the guy who lead evolution, Paul, and the other guy from DX, not HBK, the dude with the sledgehammer.

He also really like Undertaker's opponent at Wrestlemania 28.