MVP says Tony Khan is a ‘better person all around’ than Triple H
MVP discussed the difference between working for Tony Khan at AEW and Triple H at WWE during a recent interview.
The Hurt Syndicate member took part in an interview with Case Lowe of Q101 and explained that Khan and AEW allow more input from wrestlers, while he described Triple H’s approach to booking as more “dictatorial.”
MVP said:
“Tony, he has his vision that he wants, and he works with the talent and allows a lot more input from the talent into what creative path is going to happen. Whereas ‘the nose’ (Triple H), he is a little bit more dictatorial, emphasis on dick. It’s, ‘This is what we’re doing, this is how it’s going to be, and this is what I want.’“
“Whereas Tony could say, ‘Well, this is what I want,’ and you can say, ‘Okay, Tony, but what about if we put this on it?’ and Tony invites the input. With that guy (Triple H), there’s only a handful of people that I would say are allowed to have that kind of input.“
“I think Tony, I’m just going to be blunt, is a better human being, a better person all around than this guy. So it’s definitely a better person to work for and a much better working environment.”
“When I was (in WWE), you did have a lot of people who were really concerned about their future because, at any given time, you were gone on a whim, and we saw it happen all the time. Tony doesn’t operate that way.”
MVP also addressed the rumor that he doesn’t like “Speedball” Mike Bailey, calling the idea preposterous and saying Bailey is a nice guy.
“That whole thing was preposterous, that ‘MVP doesn’t like Mike Bailey.’ I don’t have a problem with Mike. He’s one of the nicest guys around. I don’t know where that came from.”
MVP also addressed rumors that the Hurt Syndicate has refused to lose to certain teams in the AEW tag team division. He disputed that claim but said matches involving Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin should not be 50/50.
MVP continued:
“Bobby and Shelton could destroy everybody. In terms of how we approach a match, when you have smaller guys, I just try to explain to certain people that there’s psychology. You should be chopping down the tree. It’s not a 50/50 match.”
“Somehow somebody got this idea that the Hurt Syndicate don’t want to lose to anybody, which is bulls–t, because we’ve lost to people. But there’s psychology, there’s a way to do it, and we had great matches with Jet Speed and Speedball.”
“I got a lot of respect for the guy, he’s a tremendous athlete and loves what he does,” MVP continued to say of Bailey.
MVP also discussed his fandom of Masahiro Chono, Norman Smiley getting him into Japanese pro wrestling, and more during the interview. His comments about Triple H and Tony Khan begin around the 30-minute and 12-second mark of the video below.
Ian Carey is a writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, whose work has been featured in NOW Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. A lifelong wrestling aficionado born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he has covered the industry for a decade and a half. He joined the f4wonline.com team in 2019.