Triple H was recently a guest on the After The Bell podcast. During this, he spoke about WWE moving shows to the Performance Center because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Triple H ended up sharing the conversation that he had with Vince McMahon before they made the decision to move every show to the WWE Performance Center.
Here is what he said (h/t to Ringside News for the quotes below):
“As I’m flying down there in the morning I call Vince and say, ‘Hey, I haven’t seen the Performance Center yet, but we don’t do anything half-way, and I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it looks pretty spectacular. Maybe when I get done doing this live show tomorrow night maybe we should just leave the set-up up. Like, I know it’s costly and all that, but maybe just in case something cancels over the next couple of weeks where we can’t go into a town we can at least get everybody to Florida.”
“At that point I wasn’t even thinking about no fans. I said, ‘we can pick up the phone here and call the local fans and fill this place up pretty easily and at least put on a show.’ Vince said, ‘That’s probably smart, run the numbers and get them back to me and I’ll let you know.’ By the time we get to Tuesday night, and we get done with all that I call up Vince and say, ‘I don’t know the numbers yet, but it’s getting worse.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah it’s getting a lot worse, let’s talk in the morning.’”
By the next morning, Triple H says that they knew the Performance Center shows were going to happen. This is because things had gotten so bad. Vince called him and said that the production trucks were on-route from Detroit to Orlando. At this point, Vince also told Triple H that “we may have to have Wrestlemania there”.
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