7 Ups & 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE Backstage (Oct 15)
Downs...
3. H-Bomb
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CM who? Before we get onto that "skinny fat *ss" let's look at WWE's perpetual guest of honour Triple H, who spoke briefly about not a great deal from his spiritual home at the WWE Performance Center.
What to make of this, exactly? As a preview for the proper show starting on November 5th, the inclusion of Triple H here suggested that some of the Fox money was going to bring some big names to some big screens as part of the entertainment package. But company man Hunter had the sum total of sh*t all to add to his platitudes at the Crown Jewel press conference, outside of the odd bit of nicey-nicey about Bruce Prichard (more on that later), Fox and, somewhat cynically, Booker T.
He did have one announcement to make, but even he seemed keen to scale it back, wise as usual as to the eventual response...
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