During Triple H’s post-Takeover: Toronto media conference, he was asked about the main event between Johnny Gargano and Adam Cole. Mike Johnson of PWInsider asked Triple H about the violent nature of the match after Vince McMahon recently referred to AEW as “Blood and Guts”.
Triple H responded by saying that there was very little blood during the main event. Johnson noted that there was some blood on Cole’s back after the match.
This caused a fiery response from Triple H about conspiracy theories. Here is what he said (h/t to Ringside News for the quotes below):
“Honest to god you’re gonna call me out on that? I mean he gets scraped on the table. No — honest to god, you’re digging deep for this one. 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 that cage that you haven’t been seeing on TV in WWE consistently. So, to say this is some kind — man, you guys gotta get off your conspiracy theory stuff. You’re digging hard, but you’re making yourself look stupid.”
“I mean in general, you’re digging hard for something that ain’t there […] What did [Vince] say? He said ‘blood and guts’… did you see blood? Intentional blood? Right, you just answered the question so what you’re digging for isn’t there. Like, that’s the ridiculous thing in this. There was nothing there that you have not seen. Barbed wire as a deterrent for leaving the cage did not get used. Nobody intentionally bled, there was no blood anywhere… there were chairs, there were Kendo sticks. There were pliers, not needle-nosed so those were different, but what else was different? What was the gore and the guts that we went to that is making you say that this was a different turn?”
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