2. Talks Bob Holly Incident And Claims John Laurinaitis Knew About It And Let It Happen
Dupree was asked about Hardcore Holly, his ex-travel partner. Holly famously shot on Dupree during a late November 2004 house show in Syracuse, New York, because Dupree had failed to pay for a speeding ticket he got while driving a car registered in Holly's name. Holly then had to go to court and get the issue straightened out, and it cost him money and time to do so. According to Dupree, he offered to pay Holly double of whatever it was that he owed him but that wasn't good enough (in his autobiography Holly claims that Dupree never offered to pay or even apologised for getting the ticket). Holly then threatened to kill Dupree. The Frenchman's opinion of Holly:
The guy is a psychopath. I am a firm believer because I was about twenty and he was forty-one and I believe he was suffering from dementia to be honest with you...I got kicked about fifth-teen or twenty times in the f*cking head with a wrestling boot. You know how hard the sole of a wrestling boot is? Its like a steel-toed boot.
However, that was not the end of Dupree's claims. He said that then Vice President of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis not only knew about what was going to happen and actively encouraged it:
John Laurinaitis is behind it all too because he is the one who booked me in a f***ing match with him and they knew exactly what they were doing. They knew exactly what was going to happen and they were laughing at it, the whole place is f***ing corrupt.
Although Dupree managed to break free from Holly (who gave him a full-on chair shot to the head as well) and flee backstage, Holly caught up to him and continued the beating in the back, before Fit Finlay broke it up. Was Laurinaitis in on it? Who knows. But he
was the man in charge of talent at the time, and the impending Holly/Dupree showdown was common knowledge in the locker room.