Triple H was recently a guest on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. During the interview, he spoke about Wrestlemania 36 still happening during the coronavirus pandemic.
Triple H ended up responding to critics who think that Wrestlemania 36 should have been postponed or canceled during this time.
Here is what Triple H said (h/t to POST Wrestling for the quotes below):
“Look, there’s going to be critics of everything. I think we’re doing this to provide what we believe is an essential service in entertaining our fans, entertaining people around the world, and I think you see that with ESPN picking up past WrestleManias, and FOX, NBC and that partnership, we can put out content… even our historic content is evergreen in nature because of the storytelling aspect of what we do, and I say this a lot, we’re more akin to the ‘Rocky’ movie than we are actual boxing. Once the event takes place live in boxing, you’re kind of done with it. With us, you’ll watch it over and over again, because it’s the story, and the characters, and the emotion that you feel. You’ll go back and relive those epic moments — Hogan slamming Andre the Giant at WrestleMania 3, or whatever connects with you from the past.
We’re working with the government officials very closely. We’re taking all of the precautions, we’re screening our talent. Anybody that’s uncomfortable doing this doesn’t have to. The crew and the staff is very, very limited. We’re working the talent waves, where we bring them in for their particular stuff and then they can leave, and keeping people as separated as possible, trying to do this in as safe a way as possible, while still being able to perform a vital service. We’re following CDC recommendations, as well as Dr. Joseph Maroon, Dr. Jeffrey Dugas and
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On a related note, here is what Triple H had to say about why they haven’t acknowledged Roman Reigns getting pulled from Wrestlemania 36 yet.