10 Things We Learned From Corey Graves' New WWE Podcast

5. Triple H's "Jib" Camera Story

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Much of Triple H's appearance revolved around hyping how cool it is for he and WWE to welcome in real combat stars like Tyson Fury and Cain Velasquez. 'The Game' regularly goes into hyperbole mode when he's corporately selling his company, and that was no different on Graves' new podcast.

Things got better after that.

One of the best stories Trips told came from his early days as Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Back in 1995, Vince McMahon barked at him to "look at the jib camera" during his match. When HHH returned back through the curtain, a frustrated boss asked him why he "didn't look at the jib". The answer was simple: Triple H didn't know what the crap a "jib" was.

He uses that same story to teach young wrestlers at the Performance Center how to work towards a multi-camera set up. They have to worry about hard cam, roving cameramen and the jib/boom cams sweeping over the ring.

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