MVP has been with the Hurt Syndicate in AEW since 2024. Over two stints, MVP was signed to WWE for 11 years altogether. He has been vocal on social media and his podcast about his feelings for Paul “Triple H” Levesque, who he calls “The Nose”. Earlier this year, MVP stated that he does not like or respect Triple H on an episode of his podcast. When discussing the infamous WrestleMania 19 match between HHH and Booker T, he called the storyline “overtly racist”.

During a recent episode of his podcast Marking Out, MVP brought up Triple H again while discussing Undertaker and how he put people over even though he was a top star. He had to get wrestlers like Khali over, whom MVP called “The Not-So-Great-Khali”. Undertaker let Khali pin him by putting his foot on his chest, which is a no-no in pro wrestling. MVP points out that Mr. Kennedy was another talent that the Undertaker got over and said you can go down a list of talent that he put over. “How many people you remember “The Nose” getting over? How many people can you associate with him? And I’ll give you two. I’ll give you Randy (Orton), I’ll give you Batista. Take them away. Who else can you remember Triple Nose getting over?”

MVP concedes that Triple H was a top guy who drew a lot of money, but so did Undertaker. If Undertaker got over more people than Triple H, then who was more valuable to WWE? It’s an ego driven business and Undertaker has an ego. “But he’s also a pro’s pro. If he sees the money and sees the money in you, he will work with you to elevate you.”

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A pioneer with a brilliant mind for television, Ted Turner was all about taking high risks in turn for high rewards. And he did just that when he purchased Jim Crockett Promotions in 1988 and turned it into World Championship Wrestling. A cornerstone on how many watch wrestling today, Tony Schiavone took a moment on his “What Happened When” podcast to pay tribute to Turner, who gave him a career he never dreamed would have ever been possible without him.

“Ted was the man that without Ted Turner…I probably wouldn’t have had a career that I had because of [his] love of pro wrestling and his determination to put pro wrestling and the Atlanta Braves…Fans became Braves fans because of TBS, because you could see TBS everywhere. And they became fans of World Championship Wrestling because you could see WCW, before that, Georgia Championship Wrestling, everywhere,” the now prominent play-by-play AEW commentator said. “He loved it. He loved what he did. And he was a big, big supporter of ours.”

Later in the podcast, Schiavone recalled a time when he encountered Turner post-the AOL buyout of Time Warner in 2000. At a home baseball game at Turner Field, Schiavone and Turner happened to run into one another in the bathroom, and discussed the defunct promotion. Still enraged with how AOL dropped the ball on the empire he had once created, the former owner of WCW said, “Those motherf**kers. If I was still running this place, wrestling would still be on TBS. It would still be on TNT. They are out of their minds taking off wrestling.”

Even though Turner enjoyed the 83-consecutive-week victories WCW had over WWE years ago, Schiavone believes that Turner should be honored for his contributions with a Hall of Fame induction in the WWE.

“Yeah, of course… If you think that WWE Hall of Fame means anything,” Schiavone responded.

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With at least a year and a half left on their current media rights deal, and the Paramount/Warner Brothers Discovery merger still not yet closed, it’s too soon to have any idea on what will happen when AEW negotiates their next media rights deal in the next few years. But according to Dave Meltzer, some within WWE are already suggesting things could go bad for their competitor, with Meltzer reporting on Friday that WWE higher ups were openly telling people they didn’t expect Paramount to extend AEW.

Despite reporting it, Meltzer remains skeptical about that actually being true, and doubled down on his skepticism during the latest edition of “Wrestling Observer Radio.” Not only does Meltzer believe it’s too soon to tell, but he noted that WWE had previously claimed things about AEW’s media rights that later proved to be untrue.

“I don’t know how great there is, but there’s certainly talk among people there [in WWE] that ‘They’re [AEW] not going to get the deal, and you can’t…don’t bank on going there because they’re…whatever,'” Meltzer said. “Which is the usual bulls**t. It started with week one, literally week one, when the talent in WWE was being told that ‘Tony bought all the tickets and distributed them for free.’ Week one. You remember those stories, Tony bought all the tickets. So that’s how it starts. 

“And then it’s that way all the time, that whole thing of ‘They’re going to die. They’re going to die. They’re going to die.’ It’s telling people ‘Don’t leave. Don’t leave because if you’re here, we’re going to be here forever. And if you leave…’ you know again, I get people from there going ‘Do you think Tony’s going to be around in a couple of years?’ And I go ‘Yeah.’ Do I know that they’re going to get renewed? No. Do I think that the company is going to be around? Yeah. Yeah, they’re going to be around.”

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