Triple H comments on training Floyd Mayweather Jr. for his match with the Big Show at WrestleMania 24.
Big Show and Floyd "Money" Mayweather were in one of the featured main events at WWE WrestleMania 24 in 2008. Mayweather would win that match and hasn't stepped inside a wrestling ring for a match since then. Still, it's remembered as one of the smoother celebrity outings at Wrestlemania. Perhaps that's because, when preparing for the match, Triple H helped get Mayweather ring-ready.
Triple H reflected on the experience during his appearance on the FLAGRANT podcast with Andrew Schulz.
"I helped him when he wrestled for us and fought Big Show. I trained him for that. He would show up with this massive entourage, everybody hooting and hollering and just crazy. We’d talk for a little bit, and he’d be like, ‘You want to get down to work?’ ‘Yeah.’ He’d whistle or something, ‘Alright, business. Everybody out.’ Everybody would stop talking, and anybody who stayed would stop talking, and everybody else would get out of the room. He was laser-focused. The first time we trained together, we did two hours, and then I had to go on the road. I came back to Vegas and same thing, everyone is there, he tells everyone to get out, and I go, ‘I want to review what we talked about last time.’ He goes, ‘Can I say it to you?’ He went on for 20 minutes and told me everything. I was like, ‘Damn. Alright.’"
Triple H has also accompanied Mayweather to the boxing ring for fights in the past.
Also on the podcast, Triple H gave his thoughts on the internet and why he believes it's not a genuine barometer for what is and isn't working in the wrestling world. Read his comments here.
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