After Wrestlemania 29 was over, Hall of fame inductee Bruno Sammartino had a interesting interview with Donald Wood from Ring Rust Radio. In their interview Sammartino talked about his meeting with WWE chairman Vince McMahon and his son in law Paul Levesque (Triple H), which was particularly interesting news.
Sammartino said the following to Donald Wood:
About his phone-calls and meetings with Triple H.
"When it came to the Hall of Fame, I've been very critical of the direction they've taken and I'd feel like a hypocrite if I just accepted this Hall of Fame while I'm so against what they're doing. So all these years have gone by and I have refused every time, but now what happened is that I found out doctor Joseph Maroon, whom I happen to know personally, he's a world-renowned neurosurgeon—in fact, he's operated on me three times—but his reputation is awesome. When I found out he took on that challenge to clean up the drug situation there was over there, that made me feel good.
"Time went by, and I was contacted by the WWE, which was Paul Levesque — better known as Triple H — when he contacted me, I was curious, wasn't convinced, but after awhile he started telling me about not only about the drug program and how strict they were, but he started talking about how they were making it more family friendly by doing away with the nudity and vulgarity and the profanity and all that.
"About six or seven weeks ago, I started watching it because I had my doubts, to be honest. Meanwhile, Paul kept calling me and talking to me more and more about the whole business and the direction they wanted to go in and so forth, and after watching it and having a meeting with Dr. Maroon who explained time and again what they were doing, as I told some previous people, they said, 'you'd never go in the Hall of Fame because you'd feel like a hypocrite, but what if they change? What if the whole thing changed? Would you reconsider?' I would absolutely. If they change, absolutely I would reconsider.
"Well they've convinced me that they have changed and they convinced me — Paul Levesque has — that they want to be family friendly and the plans to go ahead is to do even more so, and I liked everything he had to say. Putting everything together is what made me want to go in."
About his meeting with Vince.
"Well, first of all, I have not talked to Vince McMahon at all. In the past six months that I have been speaking with Paul Levesque, I have never once talked to Vince McMahon. Now, yes, as you said he is the boss, so I feel that from my conversations with Paul Levesque and the agreements we've come to and so forth, I do believe he had to speak to Vince, and Vince of course had to agree.
"But as far as myself, I will see him for the first time at Madison Square Garden at the Hall of Fame. But I have not talked to him, and as far as I know, there aren't any plans for us to talk until we meet in person at that time. So when that time comes, we shall meet in person and if he wants to bury the hatchet as the old saying goes, I commend him for the changes that he made. I criticized him before, and I will give him credit because these changes could not have taken place without his approval. So, you know, I have to be fair too here.
So this interviews tells us that Bruno is satisfied with the current product WWE is delivering. Which brings me up to the big speculations surrounding a possible "product-change" for the WWE. The last couple of months there has been a lot of rumors on well known online-pages that has been known for delivering accurate and credible articles surrounding backstage news within the WWE. Rumors has said that WWE is heading towards a new and more entertaining product, a similar type product that they delivered back in the "attitude-era". But expect all these rumors to be lay'd flat after the latest interview with Sammartino. Don't get me wrong, there could be a chance that WWE is going for a new product. But don't expect it to happen anytime soon. Because Sammartino is a guy with high influence both in the press and in the wrestling community. If WWE delivers a product that he is against, especially after Triple H told him WWE was aiming for a more "family" friendly product, you could bet your ass on the fact that Sammartino would go public with his criticism. The last thing WWE wants now is a newly inducted legend like Sammartino who decides to goes against them again. This would only lead to bad publicity for the WWE, especially against Paul (Triple H) and Vince. The safest thing for WWE now is to build something around their current product. Personally I don't think Vince wants to get on the bad side with Bruno again, after all it is only two weeks since Bruno finally decided to give Vince some credit for what he has done with this company.
So most likely WWE will not do any drastically changes on their current product, which means that we can only hope WWE-creatives comes up with something good that they can do with their current PG product.
Do you think WWE should do a change on their product? Does Sammartino's opinion matter? Tell us your opinion in the comment section below.
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