It’s certainly a great honor to win the WWE Championship, and Jeff Hardy cemented his legacy when he won the title for the first time at Armageddon in 2008 by defeated Edge and Triple H in a triple threat match.
Former WWE writer Freddie Prinze Jr. recently appeared on the Ariel Helwani Show, and he revealed that he was heavily involved with the storyline that culminated with Jeff’s title win. Freddie also recalled what his work life was like leading up to the title win, and how Triple H seemingly objected to Jeff getting the belt.
“I wrote the whole thing out weeks before it ever got approved, every single promo. I presented it to Vince the way you would pitch a film to a studio in the ’90s when you had more than 10 minutes. Vince said yes and we were moving forward. Very few people were against it,” he admitted. “Kevin Dunn wasn’t nuts about it, Bruce was on board. About 90% of the agents were on board, then the day of the production meeting for Armageddon, Hunter brought it up. Everybody else was cool and nobody had said anything, and I am sitting in there nervous. He says, ‘Are we really going to trust the championship with this guy?’”
Freddie Prinze Jr. went on to say that things were weird between him and Triple H after that, and that Triple H even prevented him from working with another talent in developmental.
“It was just weird after that. There was another wrestler that was in developmental that I wanted to work on, I had some ideas with. He was like, ‘Hey, I am working with him, don’t talk to him.’ I was like, ‘Ah, that’s it. Alright, cool.’ So I just stayed away from his guys and I stayed away from him after that.”
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