HHH interview on his injury

[Guest MixxMaster]

HHH did an interview with WWE. com, following his injury, today.

 

http://www.wwe.com/news/headlines/1193314.

 

Here it mostly is, for those too lazy to click:

"...With an extremely hoarse voice, The Game spent some time discussing his condition with WWE.com

 

WWE.com: How are you doing?

 

Triple H: I’ve had better days. Basically, after the show last night I went to the hospital and got out at about 4 p.m. today. They wanted to keep me an extra night, but I didn’t want to stay. When Rob Van Dam hit me with the Frog Splash off the top of the cage, his knee went across my throat. It caused swelling on the inside of my throat, which closed my airway down. I don’t know the percentage, but they said your throat’s normally at two, and it was at less than one. I had 10,000 different tests done. They needed to keep me overnight because they were afraid that if it swelled anymore, my airway would close off, and before I would be able to tell anybody, I wouldn’t be able to breathe and I could die. While they were making sure that didn’t happen, they were also trying to find out whether or not I had torn my trachea, which, if I did, I couldn’t drink or swallow. I basically sat bloody in the hospital in my gear until about 11 or noon today. I was still in my gear; I was still covered in blood with confetti on my back.

 

WWE.com: What’s your throat feel like right now?

 

Triple H: It just feels like the worst sore throat of all time. When I swallow, it feels like something’s stuck in my throat almost.

 

WWE.com: When RVD hit you with the Frog Splash, you knew something was wrong right away …

 

Triple H: When Rob landed on the Frog Splash, his leg landed across my neck. I had taken a hard shot to the Adam’s apple. It shut my airway down. (Referee) Earl Hebner was asking me if I was OK. I could hear him asking me, but I couldn’t answer him because I couldn’t get a breath to do it with. At that point, for a minute there, it was pretty scary because I didn’t know if he had completely crushed my throat. I couldn’t say anything. What was I going to do? I didn’t know how much damage it had done. However long went by, which it seems like was forever, I slowly started to take a little air in, and I slowly started to come back a little bit. It was still very painful, and I was still trying to get air. I couldn’t really get a word out. The first bump that I took after that -- I don’t even know what it was -- the same exact thing happen. As soon as I landed, my throat swelled back up, I couldn’t breathe again.

 

WWE.com: You didn’t think, “I need to get pinned and get out of here”?

 

Triple H: I don’t know. For me, I just never think about stopping. When I tore my quad, people asked me why I didn’t just stop. I never really thought about it. I knew what I had to do. I was just waiting to do it.

 

WWE.com: How hard was it to finish the match?

 

Triple H: It was tough. It was just the difficulty of being able to do stuff when you can’t breathe. And every time I would take a solid bump – like when I took the chokeslam from Kane – it really cut my wind off again. I remember that as he was picking me up for the Tombstone, I had yet to get my breath back. I still felt like I couldn’t breathe as he was putting me on his shoulders for the Tombstone. You just get through it; you don’t even think about it.

 

WWE.com: So what’s the diagnosis with your throat? There’s nothing broken?

 

Triple H: Just trauma. It’s swelled all in between my esophagus and my trachea. It just constricted my airway and constricted my throat. The airway thing has backed off, and now it’s just more of a constriction of my throat when I swallow. I saw pictures of it today. I had this test done about six times today – (sarcastically) very pleasant. They stick a camera down your nose and through your throat, and they can look at it. One side of the area just above my voice box is all swollen and purple.

 

...WWE.com: What’s the prognosis in terms of when you can back in the ring and wrestle?

 

Triple H: They told me not to wrestle for at least 10 days. It’s mostly just until the swelling goes down. Once the swelling goes down, I have to see. They’ll take more pictures inside to make sure there wasn’t any damage. But as of right now, they think it’s not structural damage, it’s just swollen tissue. And unfortunately, when your throat swells, you can’t breathe.

 

...WWE.com: Do you think RVD is going to get “heat” for what happened? Are you mad at him?

 

Triple H: No. This is a tough business. And there are certain moves in the business that are high-risk moves. When we do them, we take high risk, that’s why they’re called high-risk moves. Every time that you do one, the odds go up that something’s going to happen. And this time, something happened. The time was right, and there it was. This has nothing to do with Rob. I feel completely safe in the ring with Rob every time I’m in there with him.

 

It was just one of those things; it wasn’t his fault, it wasn’t my fault. It just happened. In this business, there’s a fraction of an inch between safe and not safe, and we were on the wrong side of the fraction.

 

WWE.com: I see you got a bunch of cuts on your forehead. Besides your throat, how are you feeling physically after that match?

 

Triple H: The biggest things right now are my throat and my arm. I didn’t get (my arm) checked because I thought I’d be in the hospital longer. But I’m not sure yet that I haven’t broken my arm.

 

WWE.com: How did that happen?

 

Triple H: I have no idea. I was in a f***ing 10-ton steel cage. It could have been anything. Once the throat happened, I was so intent on trying to not get hit in the throat. Like when Shawn dropped the elbow off the top of the cage on me, I was just trying to protect my throat. He could have landed on anything else. I don’t know. At that point, I wasn’t really aware of it. But my right arm hurts to the point where it’s hard for me to put a shirt on. So I’m not sure that I haven’t broken my wrist.

 

...WE.com: Do you have any idea or recollection of how the match went?

 

Triple H: I remember all of it, other than the parts where I was rolling around unable to breathe. It seemed like it went very well to me.

 

I was excited with the response that we got at the end, and I think we did what we wanted to do."

 

Well, it seems that we may at least be free from some HHH-interference in the HBK-RVD match on RAW...and so far, RVD hasn't been sent to curtain-jerk in Siberia...

[Guest Paranoid]

I think that HHH deserves some props for finishing the match. There aren't too many people that would have finished the match after that. He has now finished two seperate matches after suffering a tough injury. I don't care what you say about HHH he is one tough worker!

[Guest RicFlairGlory]

I wholeheartedly must agree

 

 

And I've had that throat scope through the nose before, I've been there. Constricted throat, airway feels like it has a golf ball in it.... and that scope, good god, I wouldnt wish that on my worst enemys dog. I bowled through it before it turned horribly wrong, I could only imagine taking bumps like that...

[Guest Kamui]

Wow, people on this board giving HHH props. What a world.

 

 

I agree, of course. HHH deserves some props for finishing the match injured- he seems to be good at that, for whatever reason.

 

I also think that Hunter should wait until after Armageddon to come back, whether he can or not. Giving him a month away from TV after the overexposure will just help freshen up his character and make him more over with the crowd when he comes back, and plus give room for the rest of the wrestlers to move upwards on an even playing field. I'm not pointing fingers and saying HHH is holding people back, just saying that he's an overexpoused Main Eventer that needs to take some time off, and this is the perfect way to do it.

 

-Duo

[Guest BoboBrazil]

Wow, he almost died. That would have been horrible. He still thinks he might have a broken arm. Maybe if he does he will let someone else win the title from HBK.

[Guest Nater]

In matches I've seen him get injured in, he's 2 for 2 in finishing them.

 

Unfortunately the WWE isnt about who has the most Heart, its about entertainment and what the crowd wants. HHH is at this time not main-event material and perhaps going to be sent to OVW to look into working on his ring and mic work, due to popular disinterest in his character. Perhaps with HBK back, we could see a true D-X reunion!!!

 

*I really wish I could put words in JR's mouth (that doesnt seem to move)

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

RVD came close to killing HHH?

 

Lets start up the RVD goes to OVW board pool. I have November 26th.

[Guest FeArHaVoC]

<The word making the rounds backstage was that the injury was serious, but it was unclear at that point just how serious. You could hear a pin drop in the Madison Square Garden hallway as Triple H was carted toward an ambulance and taken to a hospital.>

 

They make it sound like it was a damn funeral. Like people were in shock & crying and stuff.

[Guest snowfan]

<The word making the rounds backstage was that the injury was serious, but it was unclear at that point just how serious. You could hear a pin drop in the Madison Square Garden hallway as Triple H was carted toward an ambulance and taken to a hospital.>

 

They make it sound like it was a damn funeral. Like people were in shock & crying and stuff.

Openly.

 

Like I said he is being a drama queen. His neck was swollen. They shot it up with anti-inflammatories and sent him packing.

 

RIP HGH whenever-far too long....

[Guest HartFan86]

So he's god AND he almost dies in one week? That's just mind blowing.

 

Props to him for toughing it out, though.

[Guest oldschoolwrestling]

WWE.com: You didn’t think, “I need to get pinned and get out of here”?

Triple H: No. I was thinking "RVD needs to get pinned and get out of here"

[Guest El Satanico]

Why give him "props" for toughing it out. He's suppose to tough it out it's his job. He's suppose to finish the match unless it's a major injury such as the spine. So yes lets give him props for something that should be expected from professionals. Well unless his name is HBK.

 

Him wrestling with a injury makes up for nothing.

[Guest buffybeast]

Why give him "props" for toughing it out. He's suppose to tough it out it's his job. He's suppose to finish the match unless it's a major injury such as the spine. So yes lets give him props for something that should be expected from professionals. Well unless his name is HBK.

 

Him wrestling with a injury makes up for nothing.

Well at the time he did not know what was going on with his throat. He could have conceivably crushed his trachea and suffocated to death in the ring before anyone could come to his aid. So it's not fair to say, oh he's not tough, that's what he was supposed to do, etc.

[Guest El Satanico]

He's a professional it's his place to continue the match unless it's physically impossible.

 

I did not say that he didn't tough it out because continuing to do anything when injured is toughing it out. He just shouldn't be given "props" for doing what he should do.

[Guest humongous2002]

The guy makes millions in a risky business, he had to tough it out it comes with the job ,and if he was really dying because he couldn't breathe how come he still went through with the match? To me this is another superHGH story to get sympathy from the fans.

[Guest FeArHaVoC]

I'm glad the idiot didn't kill himself in the ring. But the injury happen when all 6 guys were still in the ring. He could have did the job for his little Buddy Shawn in the beginning of the match and then just let the guys work on the fly until Shawn won at the end, since that was what was booked.

 

I'm sure Shawn and Jericho could have carried the match. Which Jericho pretty much did for a good amount of time there.

[Guest crandamaniac]

My thoughts on this. Was he tough? Yeah, you have to be pretty tough to go thru that and then more just for the sake of a match. Was he stupid? Incredibly yes. He could have risked permanent injury to himself and possibly death staying out in the ring. He should have just let himself get pinned, and then got medical attention, if he was blacking out, having trouble breathing and all that mess.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

<The word making the rounds backstage was that the injury was serious, but it was unclear at that point just how serious. You could hear a pin drop in the Madison Square Garden hallway as Triple H was carted toward an ambulance and taken to a hospital.>

And then the silence was broken by one voice:

"HAHAHAHA! Assclown!"

[Guest TheArchiteck]

That makes my throat hurt just thinking about it.

Good to see he's doing ok though. But it will be refreshing to see other people during raw.

[Guest dreamer420]

I give props to HHH for finishing the match and doing it convincingly.