Triple H Says UFC Needs To Evolve More Than WWE

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The following is an excerpt from a new interview with WWE Superstar Triple H:

Moviefone: How do you think WWE and pro wrestling needs to evolve as UFC and MMA grows in popularity?

Triple H: I don't think we have to evolve. It's two totally different things. I think now especially there's this thing like, "oh it's very similar."

I don't see us needing to evolve to what UFC does because quite frankly sometimes the fights are long and boring, guys lying around and sometimes the fights are fast and over in five seconds. I've always thought one of the things about us, if you look at us solely from a sports standpoint, is that we always give you a good show. We're never going to give you a crap game.

I think if anybody needs to evolve, it's them. Give more of an entertainment standpoint. Give more form; they just have fighters who walk in in T-shirts and shorts and just stand there and then they fight and then they win and then they go "thanks, I'd like to thank my sponsors" and then they leave. The whole world was up in arms when Brock was flipping people off and was cussing at the beer company because they didn't give him any money and everyone thought, "oh my god, he's disrespectful," -- the whole world was talking about it. They couldn't wait to see him get beat up. And then he did well, and he beat some guys and then people jump on his bandwagon going "Brock's the greatest." I'm good friends with Floyd Mayweather and Floyd would be the first to tell ya, "I make the most money in boxing and I have the biggest buyers because I have the biggest mouth." He'd be the first guy to tell you that. That's what it's about. Sports is entertainment.

Looking at something like the recent Grantland expose on Ric Flair, it seems like the problem is some pro wrestlers run their mouth too much.

Ric is one of my best friends. Rick doesn't know when to walk away. Ric doesn't want to be told to walk away. And Ric can't afford to walk away. Ric has lived every day of his life like it's the last for almost the fifty years he's been in the business. In Ric's mind, it's still 1982, he's on top of the world, he's young, he's got a lot of money. Ric has never questioned spending. We have a term on the road where if you go out and you have a crazy night that you spent a ludicrous amount of money or you just lose it one day and you can't go through another airport and you're trying to get a jet instead, we call it "Naitching." Ridiculously spending money for no point is called "Naitching."

But Brock left wrestling under controversial terms because he chose to walk away while he was still young, rather than stay on for too long.

Well [the terms] weren't controversial. Brock's a country bumpkin. And I don't mean that in a derogatory way. Brock just wants to be on his farm and he doesn't like being famous. He doesn't want to be bothered. Before he left, he was talking about buying a prop plane, and hiring a guy to fly him so he wouldn't have to go to airports ever. He could just literally fly from town to town so he wouldn't have to see anybody, go to the building and wrestle. That's the one thing about what we do for a living: you go to the ring twenty minutes every night, it's the highlight of your day. But you're on the road a couple 100 days of the year, that twenty minutes a night, that is the juice.

The rest of the time is the pain-in-the-butt stuff that you have to do to get you to the twenty minutes a night. It's the flying, it's the airports, the hotels, it's the rent-a-cars. You go through all of that stuff to get to that twenty minutes of adrenaline and then you go to the next town and you do it all over again. And Brock just couldn't deal with the other twenty three hours and forty minutes of the day outside of his 20 minutes in the ring. He loved that twenty minutes in the ring. The rest of it? Not so much.

Check out the complete interview online at MovieFone.com.

i like how he said most UFC fights are boring, i guess thats what happens when you're a legit company and people base their wins on pure skill.

Sure, there's some long, boring fights as well as short disappointing ones. That's sports! UFC is genuine: there are no predetermined outcomes. MMA is a combat sport. Pro wrestling is an exhibition of athleticism and acting.

Trips was dead-on about UFC.

The thing is, UFC will evolve. But currently their business is booming: their making a shitload of cash, plus the popularity is growing.

If any sport should evolve, it should be boxing. That shit puts me the fuck to sleep.

WarGreymon77 wrote:

Trips was dead-on about UFC.

How was he dead on, because theres no flashy entrances? because its not fake like wrestling is? gimme a break

Do you really need me to repeat what he said?

Every time I see a UFC fight on TV, there's one guy laying on top of another guy for what feels like 30 minutes.

That is boring to me.

Well, sorry not everything is moving at a fast pace for you guys

It's all about likes and dislikes...some like Boxing, some like MMA more some like WWE more some like TNA more etc.


furthermore, sure UFC needs to "evolve" Triple H, but can't deny in a short amount of time, UFC has become one of the most marketable company's in the world.

Keep in mind, UFC has higher PPV sales than WWE. And WWE's PPV's sales keep dropping.

It's better you concentrate on bettering your own company Triple H and stop paying attention to a company who has is already beating you in certain aspects.

Dead wrote:

Well, sorry not everything is moving at a fast pace for you guys

Now don't get me wrong, there are some boring matches, but I'm a fan of MMA... namely UFC. I've never really watched Strike Force.

Do you know what's going on with George St. Pierre? He's my favorite light heavyweight.

of course its gonna be boring if its a ground game, because MMA is pure skill and nothing is handed to you on a silver platter like in WWE. you earn your wins, they arent given to you.