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Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

So if, if we went to Madison score garden, it was sold out. The gate is this, there's a percentage of that gate that gets paid to talent. That's divvied up amongst the talent, right? There's percentages. So if the business is good, you make more money. If business is down, you make less money. And that's why you protect the business. Yes. And so WCW, they were just paying guys money. Yeah.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Guaranteed. So, you know, Scott Hall decides he's leaving shortly thereafter. Tevin Nash goes through this big thing where he doesn't want to leave, but they're offering him so much money. And, you know, our schedule in WWE was at that point in time, we were working hard. 200, 250 days a year. We're on the road all the time. Physically grueling.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Guaranteed. So, you know, Scott Hall decides he's leaving shortly thereafter. Tevin Nash goes through this big thing where he doesn't want to leave, but they're offering him so much money. And, you know, our schedule in WWE was at that point in time, we were working hard. 200, 250 days a year. We're on the road all the time. Physically grueling.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Guaranteed. So, you know, Scott Hall decides he's leaving shortly thereafter. Tevin Nash goes through this big thing where he doesn't want to leave, but they're offering him so much money. And, you know, our schedule in WWE was at that point in time, we were working hard. 200, 250 days a year. We're on the road all the time. Physically grueling.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

You guys are flying through cages. And in the same business, the best part of what you do is when you're on that stage, when you're in that ring. And that other 23 hours and 20 minutes of the day is the shit you put up with to get to do your job. But guys are doing it. It's grueling. It's relentless.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

You guys are flying through cages. And in the same business, the best part of what you do is when you're on that stage, when you're in that ring. And that other 23 hours and 20 minutes of the day is the shit you put up with to get to do your job. But guys are doing it. It's grueling. It's relentless.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

You guys are flying through cages. And in the same business, the best part of what you do is when you're on that stage, when you're in that ring. And that other 23 hours and 20 minutes of the day is the shit you put up with to get to do your job. But guys are doing it. It's grueling. It's relentless.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And Kevin gets in a place where they're offering ridiculous money, but he still doesn't want to go. And there's a moment where he tells me, Right when he has to give the answer, I'm home, he calls me, and he's like, I'm not going. I'm staying. I can't do it. And then, like, two days later, we're at TV, and he's like, I just gave Vince my notice. I'm like, I thought you weren't going.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And Kevin gets in a place where they're offering ridiculous money, but he still doesn't want to go. And there's a moment where he tells me, Right when he has to give the answer, I'm home, he calls me, and he's like, I'm not going. I'm staying. I can't do it. And then, like, two days later, we're at TV, and he's like, I just gave Vince my notice. I'm like, I thought you weren't going.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And Kevin gets in a place where they're offering ridiculous money, but he still doesn't want to go. And there's a moment where he tells me, Right when he has to give the answer, I'm home, he calls me, and he's like, I'm not going. I'm staying. I can't do it. And then, like, two days later, we're at TV, and he's like, I just gave Vince my notice. I'm like, I thought you weren't going.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And he's like, basically, my wife said, you don't either take that money. I'm not raising this kid by myself with that schedule anymore. Like, you take that money. Oh, so they shrunk the schedule for WCW. Yeah, WCW was working, you know, they were mostly just doing TV shows. They were doing some live events, right? But probably the schedule was half.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And he's like, basically, my wife said, you don't either take that money. I'm not raising this kid by myself with that schedule anymore. Like, you take that money. Oh, so they shrunk the schedule for WCW. Yeah, WCW was working, you know, they were mostly just doing TV shows. They were doing some live events, right? But probably the schedule was half.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And he's like, basically, my wife said, you don't either take that money. I'm not raising this kid by myself with that schedule anymore. Like, you take that money. Oh, so they shrunk the schedule for WCW. Yeah, WCW was working, you know, they were mostly just doing TV shows. They were doing some live events, right? But probably the schedule was half.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Yeah, it was Ted Turner. It was TBS, right? A lot of money, a lot of... And there's a certain point in time where when you're just paying a lot of money and the revenue's not coming in, like, well...

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Yeah, it was Ted Turner. It was TBS, right? A lot of money, a lot of... And there's a certain point in time where when you're just paying a lot of money and the revenue's not coming in, like, well...

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Yeah, it was Ted Turner. It was TBS, right? A lot of money, a lot of... And there's a certain point in time where when you're just paying a lot of money and the revenue's not coming in, like, well...

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

yeah it's a time bomb yeah you know any fool can run a business in the red take a genius to do that yeah so um kevin and scott are leaving sean and i are staying uh there's another guy in the group sean waltman but he isn't at madison square garden but we're doing a show at madison square garden it's their last time at madison square garden they're leaving shortly thereafter and um

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

yeah it's a time bomb yeah you know any fool can run a business in the red take a genius to do that yeah so um kevin and scott are leaving sean and i are staying uh there's another guy in the group sean waltman but he isn't at madison square garden but we're doing a show at madison square garden it's their last time at madison square garden they're leaving shortly thereafter and um

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

yeah it's a time bomb yeah you know any fool can run a business in the red take a genius to do that yeah so um kevin and scott are leaving sean and i are staying uh there's another guy in the group sean waltman but he isn't at madison square garden but we're doing a show at madison square garden it's their last time at madison square garden they're leaving shortly thereafter and um

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Sean comes to me during the day and he's like, hey, I mentioned something to Vince about us all going out at the end of the show and having a moment together. And I said, what did Vince say? And he was like, yeah, I guess if that means a lot to you or something like that. And so it was kind of very vague.