During a recent interview with the 411 Wrestling Interviews Podcast, AEW’s Billy Gunn gave his thoughts on Triple H’s subtle AEW digs during the WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The WWE Universe seemed to be pretty split about it, with some calling it light-hearted and others indicating that it was a sign AEW had attracted WWE’s attention.
On Triple H’s jokes about AEW:
“Yeah, I mean, come on,” he said. “It’s not a secret! We all know what’s going on, we all know what’s happening. It had nothing — yeah, it’s funny and everybody’s gonna react to it, and it’s not taboo. Because everyone’s talking [like] ‘Well, you work for AEW now. How can you be in the Hall of Fame.’ It’s not about working for WWE. It’s about being recognized as a part of wrestling, as being part of one of the greatest things that ever happened to wrestling. So yeah, it was funny, I thought it was hilarious, it was well-done. It wasn’t meant by no means to hurt either/or feelings. Either AEW’s feelings or WWE’s feelings. But you can’t walk around like it’s not something. Like, it’s not happening, right?”
On whether he knew what he’d say beforehand:
“We had some stuff we were gonna go to… we had a couple calls before the Hall of Fame just to kinda figure stuff out. But none of it came true. Because it doesn’t work like that for us. It never has worked like that for us. We’ve always just been, ‘Hey. You point us in the direction, we’re gonna go there. We have no idea what we’re gonna do.’ So when you start planning stuff out, it takes away from what we are. Because I feel like that’s what a lot of things are doing right now, you’re planning a bunch of stuff out. so when something organic happens you don’t react to it, because it’s not in the script. And we’ve never ever been ones to go by the script.”
