Justin Roberts recently released his book “Best Seat In The House: Your Backstage Pass To My WWE Journey” and the book has been receiving rave reviews so far. Roberts is being praised for telling his story and not holding anything back, and he gives his unbiased opinion of the people he worked with in WWE.
Roberts recently spoke to The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling about the book, his thoughts on Triple H and more. Triple H is the mastermind behind NXT, and he seems to have an eye for talent. Over the past few years Triple H has signed some of the top names from the independent scene, but Justin Roberts says some of the people Triple H now takes pictures with are wrestlers he used to make fun of.
“This was a guy who was making fun of the Indy guys that now he takes pictures with. All of a sudden and now that they (WWE) realize that the football players and some of these guys that don’t know anything about wrestling that they were hiring for the Performance Center when they saw that wasn’t going so well they just turned to the guys that were already over and that way it made him look good to the internet and the internet has accepted him because he is running with the guys that the internet pushes. He was never for that in the past and all of a sudden is a different guy.”
Regardless of whether or not Triple H was making fun of independent wrestlers in the past, there’s no denying that he’s helped stars such as Kevin Owens, Seth Rollins, Finn Balor and others reach the top of the industry.
However, Roberts noted that Triple H wasn’t always so interested in building up talent.
“There are a couple of things that come to mind that I write about in the book. When he was going to be wrestling The Undertaker at WrestleMania he basically said he went into the locker room and he looked around and there was nobody for him and nobody at his level besides The Undertaker. So here is a guy in charge of building talent saying that no talent is up to his level and that is why he got to fight the Undertaker at WrestleMania again. At the same time when they did that story line with the roster walking out on the company and he basically came in the ring and said how everybody is outside but he could have a better match with a broom stick than most of the guys anyway. He’s always doing whatever it takes to make himself look like Superman and to put everybody else down. He’s probably the most insecure person I’ve ever met. Constantly needs people around him telling him how great his ideas are and laughing at his jokes and he buries talent.”
You can check out the full episode of the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling featuring Justin Roberts here, along with a clip below.
He wasn’t wrong. Look back then. He is HHH. One of the best all time. And then there is Taker. Another of the best all time. You want a match at WrestleMania. Why wouldn’t you wanna work with Taker. As for the indie guys he didn’t care for then. WWE had no choice but to bring in guys that could work but also cut promos. Trying to manufacture in house talent wasn’t working. You have to change. You can’t just ignore those who don’t work for WWE. So many guys on the indies can outwork alot of those guys on the main roster. Bobby Roode, a prime example, is what a pro wrestler should be. Looks like a star. Works the ring so well. Cuts incredible, believable promos.
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