16 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Triple H
1. He Doesn't See Colour
After two-plus years running press events as PLE-post shows, it was during the Bad Blood 2004 scrum Triple H was finally put on the spot about lack of diversity on the monthly shows by TJ Legacy of Soapbox Run The Ropes, who noted lots of discussion about that very topic in the run-up.
Not for the first time, Triple H thought he had the answers, but instead delivered one of the worst possible ones when he stated “I don’t see the difference in anybody. I don’t see the color. I don’t see the nationality. I don’t see any of it. I just see talent. I don’t see the difference between men and women. I see talent."
The start of his comment was immediately picked up on social media, with multiple accounts coming forward to express exactly why it was the wrong (and wrong-headed) approach.
Contrast this to Cody Rhodes, who spoke on the subject five years earlier when asked by Mark Henry and said; “I told Brandi one time that I don’t see color and she said ‘well, then you don’t see my experience,’”Going to on to foreshadow some of the waffle spouted by Nick Khan in his own pushbacks months later, Hunter doubled down, noting that; "I don’t keep track of any of that. I do what’s relevant and what is best and what is being delivered the best. That’s what goes. No different than the men and women, who main events. Whatever the biggest stories are, that’s where we go.”
Fans online are still keeping track, and Triple H's remarks were just about the last way of deflecting them.