Vince: I dont want to involve any personal issues into wrestling. A few years later Edge/Matt Hardy/Lita triangle is brought to television and turned into a fued to get Edge over
@@sketchstevens5859 he got fired right when news of it came out the fans were pissed then Wwe finally realized they can make shit ton of money of it so when both parties agreed to Be professional they put it on tv
@@brettrossi034 Everybody involved signed off on that. Even Dominik was in the loop and was assured it was only a tv thing. It helped that the Guerreros and Mysterios were thick as thieves for years beforehand.
Chyna was a great woman wrestler, sad story is she fell victim to drug addiction, and she paid the ultimate price for it, losing her life to it !! May her soul Rest In Peace !!
She had a pretty awful childhood and like many/most of us with PTSD turned to substances to self medicate. She would have been a great mentor if she could have held on to recovery.
@MasterStryfe we are talking about pro wrestling here mr mark. And as female pro wrestling goes she was a great . A pioneer, a powerhouse a playboy feature. The girl could do it all. What other lady at that time could genuinely man handle a man?
HHH and steph werent dating when the storyline started in 99...nor in the year of 2000.. they didnt start developing feelings until 2001... which is what started all of this
it looked so bad. that in order to reach the top, Paul decided to go after the boss' daughter. it makes Steph look like a damn skank. and they both, along with Vince, didn't tell Joanie. that one incident, IMO, started Joanie's downward spiral.
JohnBlack2345 I do not know why this is any body’s perception of the situation. Stephanie is a beautiful woman, much more beautiful than Chyna, at least in my opinion, they were in storylines together and spent a lot of time with each other. They fell in love. Do any of us know Paul aka Triple H in real life? I think everyone uses his character and thinks that is him and so they think he had this devious plan to marry the boss’s daughter, have 3 kids and live a life with someone he doesn’t really love or care for, only to get a hold of the WWE and put in a position of power? Does that not sound ludicrous to say about someone you do not know personally? Here’s what we know. Triple H dated Chyna. They broke up and or he cheated on her with Steph. It was an uncomfortable situation for Chyna. She got fired or they let the contract run out and she never came back. That’s it. That’s what we as the public really know. Anything else is just hearsay or rumor. Triple H, Steph, Vince, Chyna and a handful of others know the truth and we will never know what that truth really is, because we are not one of them and weren’t involved in the situation. Beyond that, Bad things happen in life. That’s life. Chyna (Joanie) did not handle life very well after that. Unfortunate, but reality.
Dude Triple H had been king of the ring. European champion and Intercontinental Champion. He was leader of DX he was already on the way up before getting with Steph.
It's easy for the rest of them to "All be adults " when Chyna was the only one with her heart broken and the only one who it would really be awkward for moving forward.
Remember those edible wax lips? It looks like you painted some and slapped them on your face. Or had a terrible reaction to a couple of bee stings. Wtf is actually going on there?
@@idcwhatuthink4985 That's what I wanna know. All that maintenance but he still left the two caterpillars that are about to battle. And that must be one of the better photos. Can you imagine what the outtakes must look like?
Fantomas Test never really recovered from it, at all. Was suppose to get a big ass push, against Triple H. Never really got it. Gets paired up with a hot chick, and yet...Never gets pushed to win a tag title. Goes back to being face, til he screws over the wwf. Stays heel until he gets paired with another hot chic...and, repeat.
Bruce sounds sincere with his story about Chyna/Joanie but for some reason I don't think his words feel sincere. I feel like he's covering for someone, *hard.* I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
yep she could of used her fame n status to turn her life around but she chose to stay a victim to her pain ,. begging to be accepted bk to the wwe and they ddnt care until they could profit of her death
She had the propensity for mental illness there already, but no matter what HHH says, they were still living together when he started up with Steph, so how over could it have been? Losing the love of her life like that and then her job because of it, yeah, I'm sure it started that downward spiral.
@@southsudani983I'm just wondering how much experience you have with severe depression? I think I remember at one point in time hearing she was suicidal, so her self medicating with drugs and alcohol doesn't surprise me.
Because even though you can have the other woman's man their can still be jealousy toward her. I went through it. An ex that got with someone I thought was a friend had her calling my phone, rubbing it in my face, and harassing me. Even though she had him and later ended up cheating and fucking him over lol. Stephanie was probably jealous of Chyna in some way and wanted what she had including her man. Granted I do think her and Paul did fall in love, you can see it when they look and interact with each other, but Paul should handled it more like a man. He should have went to her and said he was in love with Stephanie and wants to be with her. But also Chyna could have handled it better. But granted she had mental and emotional issues and when you are young the way she was you don't really know how to handle stuff like what she went through.
Oh no matter the situation, it should be clear there is an acceptance of accountability problem in that at least a few people in that family. My favorite part is not even chyna since everyone want to call out her issues. Stephanie couldn’t come up with any reason to blame whoever her boyfriend was besides “he put it in my head”. And then decided in her head that was a good excuse and told other people. If people didn’t give her a WTF look, they should be slapped.
Conrad spends all that time going through everything for Bruce to shut it down in one sentence. Lol. I love it. It's no one's business. That's their personal life, and they have been married for many years and have 3 beautiful children. Chynas' problems weren't Triple H's doing... They were within her, and she couldn't overcome them.
obviously not the exact situation, but i can relate to Chyna's hurt and grief over her personal life just going to shambles. Bruce is right, it is life but it can be really shitty and yes unfortunately a lot of times some of us will just never heal at all. RIP Chyna. I hope she found some peace in her life eventually
Chyna had a very bad upbringing with abuse and addiction. Then she found wrestling the one thing that kept her sane and grounded. Then that was taken away from her. The 2 things she loved, HHH and wrestling. Snatched from her and she had nothing. Just like her childhood.
It's not HHH's fault that she had a horrible messed up childhood. It IS his fault he started shagging Stephanie behind Chyna's back. Chyna could have just as easily got a job wrestling with another company. She just lost her mind and started doing porn.
cpk1994 WHAT??? So it’s ok to cheat on someone you’re in a committed relationship to as long as it’s not marriage? You sound like an asshole god help your boyfriend/girlfriend
And then your boss offers you a raise which you decline, quit your job, and then spend the next 15 years using this to justify her drug addiction and trashing them in the media? Yeah she was a real peach.
If he left her for another woman, he did nothing wrong. If he was in a committed relationship and he cheated on her, he certainly did something wrong, morally speaking.
I used to work for a large retail corporation, and I saw a similar situation unfold, although to my knowledge, nobody was cheating on any anyone else. My hourly supervisor started dating one of my newer co-workers, and though it was strictly against policy, the salaried managers looked the other way and even promoted my co-worker so he would be in a different department and therefore everything would be by the book, so to speak. It kind of left a sour taste in my mouth, but they are still married with a daughter now nearly 10 years later, and they were always good to me, like truly good and not just superficially nice to make sure I wouldn't talk about. We still chat occasionally even though none of us work there anymore. I looked at it like Bruce looked at Paul and Stephanie, two people that like each other spend 40 hours/wk with each other, things just happen and it isn't really any of my business
Lamar Shakur Shane is the only decent human being of the birth McMahons(him Vince Stephanie). By all accounts a real cool dude Vince and Stephanie however are just two disgusting human beings
This is why WCW shouldn’t had went out of business she could of went there. And this also why it shouldn’t be just one wrestling company everybody doesn’t belong in WWE
And she lied that hunter hit her, she said they fired her, and goes as far as to say she got a fax at a deli, she tried saying they stalked her and ruined her life. Oh yeah and she made porn parodies of their likeness
Peachs'nCreamPie I have a huge feeling she didn’t lie. She said she lied because she felt bad for telling the truth and the backlash it got him. She retracted it. I believe she told the truth the first time
@@melainebullock she didn't tell the truth. and nobody is obligated to stay with whoever just because y'all break up doesn't mean that your whole life has to be down the drain for the next 20 years
Idk i feel Chyna's story is a little fabricated in some areas. Like the fax at the deli that I believe is 100% a lie. i forgot what show she was on but when she said that they said "how did they know you were at the deli?" regardless i believe Triple H had a motive the beginning. He suggested the whole stephanie marrying him story line to vince. He got his spot. He is a hard worker no doubt but his goal was to one day run the company. There quite a few people who he said that too I believe
Chyna may as well have beaten the crap out of Vince, Triple H and Stephanie. At least then the punishment of being banned and blacklisted from WWE for life would have fit the crime. This would have made a lot more sense than her being wronged and screwed over and then getting an unofficial lifetime ban on top of it.
Mr. Tees So the First Woman to ever hold Intercontinental Championship Gold, First Woman to be in the Royal Rumble, Cannot be Included into The WWE Hallof Fame????? Who's the Lowlife running the HofF?????
She didn’t get some sort of ban because of this. They literally offered her a raise to stay following this that she declined. The blacklisting of Chyna was because of the events that followed this. She made a sex tape with X-PAC, had domestic assault issues with him and had widely known substance abuse issues. And later on she made more porn movies. That was what led to her blacklisting, not this incident. But she did eventually get her induction, which I’m happy she got.
Unfortunate story but in hindsight, Chyna (Joanie Laurer) and WWE would all have been better off if they had made an angle out of the whole Chyna/Stephanie/HHH triangle. It probably would have made them all tons of money and Chyna could have achieved superstar status with fans for eventually kicking Stephanie's butt as ultimate retribution. It would have made for a riveting story arc.
Y’all remember the time, when everybody blamed Edge and Lita for falling in lieb with each other?! Yeah.. Triple H did Chyna more dirty and no one made heat.. The hypocrisy
True hypocrisy. The reason why is because Joanie was in and out of recovery and had spiraled out of control and people seemed to think her story had not enough weight. A trained eye could see that it had even more weight and sure helped her down that path. It’s sad of the double standard because she was a phenomenal revolutionary performer.
There’s no denying that you might have a record of what happened with Chyna in the office with Vince, but you’ll never fully understand how she felt, being a woman in that environment and feeling like you were so far gone because she lost her man... Vince is not fit to address Chyna’s problem...
A woman would get more sympathy than an upset man. Especially in that environment 'cos they're mostly guys, who'd say "you'll get over her pal" if you're a guy.
A woman shouldn’t feel “so far gone” just because she lost her man. That’s the problem! Chyna had a lot of issues, & people try to blame that all on HHH even though they were there way before these 2 even met….even her family said so. The woman lied about both HHH & XPac hitting her & she obsessed about the WWF/E until she passed away. She should’ve just taken some time off, then came back & focused on her career. They offered her the choice of being on the alternate show that Steph & HHH were on, so she wouldn’t see them, but she refused. Vince was “fit” to address the issue, because he’s the boss & Chyna wanted to speak with him lol
Who, in this life, has never lied or been lied to? Did she think Vince would pick her over Stephanie? If she can’t be professional and work with her emotions on the shelf, Joanie did what’s best for her; just don’t cry about it every chance you get. Paul and Stephanie are meant to be so let them be.
Chyna, Granted the personal demons were always there but it seemed to me became intensified after she confronted everyone over the Stephanie - Hunter issue. The whole situation should have been handled differently. Chyna needs to be inducted into the HOF on her own. Just with DX isn’t good enough.
@@bobby.m136 It would be interesting to see what Hunter's (Triple H's) take on the age old "urban legend" rumor that the late "Macho Man" Randy Savage was dating (a "Barely Legal" (age) (like the first ECW (2001) PPV special) Stephanie McMahon. "You wanna checkout the Slim Jim, Oooh Yeah !" I have read somewhere (in a podcast, 'Storytime with ("Dirty") Dutch Mantell') that Vince McMahon forbids his talent to fraternize with his family. "I really thought that Steph would be a Catch (becuase that was his position in Little League; a Catcher), and I couldn't get to Second Base. But now, Vinnie Mac told me that I can't make it to Home. I am stuck in the Outfield area (a position that he did play, for real, in a pro Baseball team)." - Randy Savage
It sucks that their relationship ended the way it did, and no one really knows the timeline for when they broke up, but they never buried her. She was booked strong through 2001. I mean, look at how she was booked to squash Ivory. How much more proof do you want, at that point? If they wanted to bury her, they could've. They've done it plenty of times in the past. She reportedly asked for an unrealistic figure to re-sign. By that point in May 2001, there was no more WCW, and the WWF had all the leverage. I think she reportedly asked for Austin levels of money.
Tammy actions abused Chris physically, Hunter's plan emotionally abused Joannie. Stephanie had the pick of any man and choose the talent that was already taken or at least trying to end a long term relationship civilly.
There is a rumor that when Tori (Terri Poch) was dating Test, it was during his storyline with Steph. Steph was said to have got into the storyline to much and Tori spoke up about that.
Ok let’s imagine- chyna and HHH got married, HBK and sunny got married, lita and Matt hardy got married, macho man and ms Elizabeth stayed together and Nancy stayed with that devil worshiper... yay now everyone’s “happy”
the devil worshiper = Kevin Sullivan, the "Taskmaster" ?; I remembered reading something, in a wrestling magazine or an online pro wrestling blog about a rumored (urban legend) couple: the "Macho Man" Randy Savage had hooked up with Stephanie McMahon... = wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/the-mystery-behind-the-randy-savage-stephanie-mcmahon-rumor-has-been-solved/ - (Wrestling News Co.): "The Mystery behind the Randy Savage - Stephanie McMahon rumor has been solved" : by Corey Jacobs (September 26, 2017); "the Hitman" Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels' (very) RAW promo: "Sunny Days; the HBK had lost his smile."
Why? Because Vince offered Chyna a raise to stay and was respectful as possible? So you hate the whole family forever because Stephanie fell in love when she was in her 20s? You're gonna hold a grudge for the rest of your life?
@@yourgfsbf9955 Haters gonna hate. Just know that 90% of them are mentally handicapped. They are too challenged to understand that a promotion can't afford to put the belt on you 14 times, keep you on tv for years, and put you in Wrestlemania after Wrestlemania just because you're sleeping with the bosses daughter. The dude had to be doing something right. The greats like Steve Austin, Mick Foley, and even the late great Eddie Guererro have had nothing but great things to say about Hunter. But I guess fans know more about the guy than any professional wrestler or business man that worked with him lmao
Definitely heartbroken. But hard to say money didn’t matter in light of the offer she wanted. But I also think she may have asked for something she knew she wouldn’t get thinking she’d leave but that if she somehow got that offer that she’d try to make it work.
Is everyone else glossing over the fact that Stephanie is pretty fuckin’ hot. Even if she wasn’t the boss’s daughter I could easily see Triple H or any of the other guys hollering at her. Props to Hunter.
I like Chyna but she clearly was not in the right state of mind. After hearing her and Xpac argue on Opie and Anthony and other places id have to side with Xpac...
Chyna said Kevin had set it up for her to come to WCW if and when she wanted... She said VINCE called her and said -" Don't go, your future is here",,, she should have gone , how do you work with Multiple people you've been/slept with?
The more Pritchard "they just fell in love" and "Chyna LEFT!!!!!!!!!", the more I realize he's never been in more than one relationship. If you work with someone you're dating, even if you're all "adults" as he keeps yammering on about, it's still uncomfortable as hell. It's still not a great working environment. In the same breath, he then says that this happens a lot in wrestling. But not everyone ends up in the same situation Chyna was in. And why was it different than Marc Mero, or guys like Chris Candido? Because Stephanie was in a position of power. She was already a featured performer on the show. She was going to be one of the presumptive executives of the shows (and eventually became head of creative). HHH, meanwhile, was in a position of power. Him dismissing it as 'Chyna chose to leave' like she had another job waiting was ignoring the fact that she was in a no-win situation. Joanie's story is read. Pritchard says that's not what happened. Ends up rephrasing it. For the record, if Joanie and Stephanie spoke privately, Bruce wouldn't have been privy to that. So him saying "none of it happened" is disingenuous at best, outside of his knowledge at worst.
The truth is that the two parties could not have come to terms on a new deal and Chyna left when her contract expired. Bruce saying she chose to leave was spinning the truth a bit. Chyna saying she was fired was an outright lie to appear more as a victim. If it was too difficult for Chyna to continue working there, she wouldn't have tried to negotiate a new deal. If Vince had met her demands, she would have stayed. You have to consider that there would have been massive locker room upheaval if Chyna was mistreated. Sunny was banging HBK, who was a top guy. Melina cheated with Batista, who was a made guy. A lot of how things go in these situations depends on how professional you are and how many problems you create. Matt Hardy made huge problems, which led to his original release.
Well said Bruce. Well said Conrad. Everyone can speculate what the motives of all 3 people involved were. Paul & Stephanie made their choice. Joanie was an unfortunate casualty of a life event, as human emotion is unpredictable. There are plenty of shoots stating that Joanie was not well-liked backstage, & she had her issues, but at the end of the day, having someone you love leave you would break almost anyone's spirit. If she had a stronger support group of family & friends, maybe things would have worked out differently for her, to where she could have moved on more healthfully & emotionally in her life. As a brother, I understand Shane's apprehension. Vince was right to stay out of the relationship- 2 people are going to do what they want to do.
Something I just found out that I never knew before was that Chyna's last match was judgement day 2001 and the raw after that was when triple h tore his quad. So was he injured when she found out about him and Steph and they broke up?????
She found out in 2001 when she snooped & found a note from Stephanie. Recently, HHH talked about his relationship with Stephanie & admitted he was trying to get with her a month into their McMahon-Helmsley story-line. And no, HHH didn't tear his quad yet. He had a chain match with Kane at JD 2001.
Chyna didn't call Stephanie a bitch or did she think she stole HHH, Chyna said you can't just take someone they have to go willingly. So she never blamed Stephanie
Tim F no it was not it was just beginning she was in the women’s match at wrestle mania that year and was booked to win Her run was not over in the slightest
I was there too. I was sitting next to Travis and we kept asking Trips about why he was over. Bruce had us thrown out so he could tell this story without contradiction.
Chyna is one of the women that made female wrestling what it is today and the WWE did her wrong. It's a sad tragic story that will never have any justice brought to it's end.
@@davidgraham8299 if by a better deal you mean a number so low she was offended by it, then yeah. It was clear that Steph and HHH didn’t want to look at her anymore and wanted her out.
They love each other, accept it and move on? WTF? Regardless of Chyna's personal problems with drugs and alcohol later in life. You just don't go behind someone who supposed to be your girlfriend back and start seeing another girl. I don't care if she didn't want children or if she going through some shit at the time. You just don't cheat on people, period! And Triple H and Stephanie were wrong! And because it was during the Attitude Era and almost every wrestler was popular and at their peak, I suppose Chyna thought she could do better without WWE. But without WWE and losing Triple H, whom she loved so much. Her life fell apart. I mean, no one could imagine being cheated on. Thank God, Owen was more of an man than Triple H to do a romantic BS storyline with Debra. Regardless of Triple H not being married and having children. Most of those guys like Austin, Rock, Mick Foley didn't bother to boost their careers in favor of a marriage/love triangle/girlfriend/sex storyline. Triple H most likely saw himself really getting pushed to the top with his storyline and just jumped on board without thinking of the consequences. He dance with the devil, a lot of people hate him, Chyna has died. Regardless of being partly in charge of WWE. He still got burned.
HHH destroyed Chyna's life and slept his way to the top that's the fact does anyone really beleave that he would be a 15 time champion or CEO of WWE if he had not shacked up with Stephanie.
Destroyed her life? Have you ever had a gf? lol people break up all the time bud. You're not responsible for your ex's life decisions. Can you imagine how many people's lives would be destroyed if that was the case? Use your brain.
Anyone who thinks HHH would have never been a top guy if he didn't marry Stephanie is an idiot. He was ridiculously over in 98 with DX. Way before this love triangle ever started. Dozens of wrestlers, including Bob Holly who has openly admitted that he hates HHH has said he's one of the best workers in the business and was always into the creative/booking side of things. I'm not saying he didn't have an ulterior motive when he first got with Stephanie, judging by the things I've heard about him he probably did, however, he was always gonna be a top guy. And judging by the job he's been doing with NXT while the main product goes to shit, we should be grateful that he's the guy taking charge of the future of WWE.
In hindsight we can all say triple h dating Stephanie was a power move. But all moves aren’t good moves, his ass was still on the line with a move like that.. if he and Steph wouldn’t of worked out his career could’ve potentially been over. He took a big risk and struck GOLD.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley would never been bigger than Austin and Austin 316. Steve Austin saved the company in the Monday Night wars with the company on his back. Sure hhh would have success but he would not have been bigger than the Rise of Stone Cold starting at that King of Ring.
I don't think guys like HHH think about what happens if it all fucks up? Not an insult or compliment. That's just how those apparent personalities operate.
I empathize with China, Hunter should have been a man about it, but we all know his character doesn't allow that behavior. He is a boy. Steph, Shefell in love I don't blame her, but the best thing she could have done would be to say, I understand this happens, I am hurtand would appreciate a little timeoff, but I wish them well and I will act professional always. I just need a little break to get over it. I will personally wish them the bestupon returning and let them know there are no hard feelings.
In all aspects as humans, all of us would have married for money and power, this two factors would have been deciding factor in this decisions for triple h also Steph was good looking too
@@shermhart7617 That's true but if you're gonna do it at least be a man about it and breakup with her instead of letting it get to the point where she was the last one to know. That's the equivalent of your boyfriend or girlfriend breaking up with you over social media and you finding out with everyone else instead of being them being mature about it and having an official break-up.
I also love how Bruce sits up here defending the dating thing when many companies have rules about employees not fraternizing (i.e. No dating between employees)...
What Triple H did he had his reasons for doing. Whether they were good reasons or not isn't for us to decide. It's none if our business. The thing is, he did trade and he traded up. Stephanie is HOT and she seems to be a good person. And, she is indeed the bosses daughter. Lol. She did come with benefits other than being hot. Triple H had more than paid his dues. Wrestling prelim matches with the Godwin's getting thrown in the hog slop, he finished a match with a torn quad and afterwards he couldn't even walk from the ring. Who was there to help him? Stephanie. When one of the girls tore her quad and couldn't finish the match she was crying and Triple H was right there telling her "it's ok. Everything will be fine." Beneath what we see, both Stephanie and Triple H are good folks. I'm not knocking Chyna but to say she was "unstable" is putting it mildly. And Triple H and Stephanie have been married for 20 years. So clearly Triple H isn't the kind of guy to jump around and they both seem happy together. Sadly, Chyna lost control and let her life take a nose dive. Edit I have to say that Bruce Pritchard is so totally different from Brother Love. 😅😂
It's a shame because it seemed like triple h was a good fit for her. Didn't drink or do drugs, had a good family. When he left then Chyna unfortunately was able to do all those bad things and it got the best of her. R. I. P Chyna. One of the greats for sure
🙄🙄 yea okay cause these people will really tell the truth! especially with Vince being the owner of the company and I bet you he made it difficult for her to stay cause let’s be real at the end of the day that’s HIS DAUGHTER that he’ll make sure is okay. People are not going to shoot themselves in the foot when these three run the wrestling world. The point is that this destroyed everything chyna worked for cause she wasn’t able to come back. You can tell this man is great friends with Triple H and Stephanie.
@@TL2354 many people who don’t kiss these people asses tell the truth about what went down. Prichard is one of Vince most loyal employee so he deff won’t talk shit about The McMahon family and how they screw chyna over. So I didn’t or don’t have to work for wwf to know shit!
I really want the crowd to boo the shit out of Triple H when DX is inducted into the HoF. Hear them chant "Chyna!" over HHH's speech just to remind him of the person he screwed over.
Honestly though the stories she said were clearly paraphrased and meshed together here. So yeah obviously she didn't talk to Stephanie the day of that meeting, and I assume all wrestlers at the time weren't just chillin' at the headquarters lol - when it comes to the "spreading of the sea" comment. I have watched other shoots from females who were there at the time and said she definitely was being treated weird because people didn't want heat. I definitely believe she asked for more money and I really don't blame her there. Just a shitty situation all around.
chyna got a raw deal in this, and steph pulled my dad owns the company. hhh saw a future in steph and a girl that was real young when she hooked up with him he played her like a fiddle. now hes 6 feet under away from running the company. chyna saw her life in the toilet. but they could not keep her around.and she knew it her job was more important to her and she blew it.
I've been listening to Bruce's podcast from the beginning, and he's made a lot of comments that made me reach this conclusion: everyone always says HHH is the "heir to the throne", and will essentially take over when Vince dies (because we all know that motherfucker will be in charge as long as he's alive). This is not true. Stephanie is being groomed to take over the company, that's clear as day. Sure HHH will be an important part for the rest of his life given that he's her husband, but Steph is the true heir to the throne. Vince isn't going to give his company to a wrestler no matter how much he likes him. Stephanie will have the final say just as her father always has.
Somehow I heard this being told differently by Jim Ross he said Chyna wanted a million dollars a year and Vince said no. Am I hearing this wrong? She was screwed over no drought about that. Karma is a bitch what goes around comes around. Pray it never happens to them.
I do think there's more to the story than what we're being told. Can u believe as a man u and ur work colleague are dating ....then all of a sudden she ends up with the boss' son ....I personally believe TripleHHH married Mcmann as a power play so that his carèer would be set in stone....and to be honest anyone would fall in love with Stephanie McMann regardless of her last name.
I wish Chyna could’ve stuck around a little longer. WWE did the draft a few months after her release and if she wasn’t released she could’ve just went to the opposite brand of HHH. Or just would’ve put HHH & Stephanie on one brand and Chyna the other.
Someone said in an interview shoot that Chyna confronted Stephanie in a hallway and Stephanie walked away and went into a room, Chyna punched the door after it closed. Vince was smart keeping them apart, Chyna would kill Stephanie.
I wish she would have accepted the offer and then the be Beast she was supposed to be, and find a way to get Stephanie in the ring and pay her back for REALZ💪😂I would have wanted a match that night LOL
I agree with Bruce that it is a part of life sometimes when these things happen but the reason why it's so messed up and people still talk about it isn't because of the McMahon name. If hhh hadve been honest with chyna and not strung her along so long then she wouldn't have handled it that way.
Agreed. Trip & Steph being in love is fine. But the tacky way they started their relationship is where they get heat. Chyna even says you can't stop love and she could accept them loving each other. But she said she wished they had just been upfront about it from the start rather than playing her for a year and her having to find out for herself.
They dropped the ball. I’m sure they knew the brand split was coming soon. They could’ve stuck Chyna on Smackdown and HHH/Steph on RAW. She was worth what she was asking for. Besides a lot of people debunked Bruce saying she asked for 2 million. She asked for 1.
The brand split only happened because Vince originally wanted to cancel Smackdown & resurrect WCW in early 2002, trouble was none of the network's would touch it.
Vince: I dont want to involve any personal issues into wrestling. A few years later Edge/Matt Hardy/Lita triangle is brought to television and turned into a fued to get Edge over
technically it was matt idea for it too be a storyline
@@dcoker9738 Didn't Matt get fired tho
@@sketchstevens5859 he got fired right when news of it came out the fans were pissed then Wwe finally realized they can make shit ton of money of it so when both parties agreed to
Be professional they put it on tv
Don't forget the SummerSlam Ladder match for the custody of Dominik Mysterio lmao. Definitely "not a personal angle"
@@brettrossi034 Everybody involved signed off on that. Even Dominik was in the loop and was assured it was only a tv thing. It helped that the Guerreros and Mysterios were thick as thieves for years beforehand.
TRIple H was MOVIN ON UP MOVIN ON UP TO THE EAST SIDE HE FINALLY GOT HIS PIECE OF THE PIEEEEEEEEE
@Fuck You Yep. Haitch got Macho's sloppy seconds! OOOOH YEEEAH DIG IT!
Fuck You got any proof?
Piece of the McHairpie
Oh lawd
Fuck You I'm dead lol
Chyna was a great woman wrestler, sad story is she fell victim to drug addiction, and she paid the ultimate price for it, losing her life to it !! May her soul Rest In Peace !!
She had a pretty awful childhood and like many/most of us with PTSD turned to substances to self medicate. She would have been a great mentor if she could have held on to recovery.
@MasterStryfe we are talking about pro wrestling here mr mark. And as female pro wrestling goes she was a great . A pioneer, a powerhouse a playboy feature. The girl could do it all.
What other lady at that time could genuinely man handle a man?
@MasterStryfe You do know most Wrestlers that's worked for the WWE, has been on the Gas at some point during their career.
@MasterStryfe Steroids is not a addictive substance. No real physical withdrawals mostly mental when coming of steroids.
It was actually alcohol that killed her
Rest In Peace CHYNA!
Chyna didn't have her last match in WWE until April 2001 so she was in WWE for over a year after Trips and Steph started dating.
HHH and steph werent dating when the storyline started in 99...nor in the year of 2000.. they didnt start developing feelings until 2001... which is what started all of this
Why do people look at Triple H and Stephanie as heels in the situation? Because they were hiding it from Chyna for over a year.
it looked so bad. that in order to reach the top, Paul decided to go after the boss' daughter. it makes Steph look like a damn skank. and they both, along with Vince, didn't tell Joanie. that one incident, IMO, started Joanie's downward spiral.
JohnBlack2345 I do not know why this is any body’s perception of the situation. Stephanie is a beautiful woman, much more beautiful than Chyna, at least in my opinion, they were in storylines together and spent a lot of time with each other. They fell in love. Do any of us know Paul aka Triple H in real life? I think everyone uses his character and thinks that is him and so they think he had this devious plan to marry the boss’s daughter, have 3 kids and live a life with someone he doesn’t really love or care for, only to get a hold of the WWE and put in a position of power? Does that not sound ludicrous to say about someone you do not know personally? Here’s what we know. Triple H dated Chyna. They broke up and or he cheated on her with Steph. It was an uncomfortable situation for Chyna. She got fired or they let the contract run out and she never came back. That’s it. That’s what we as the public really know. Anything else is just hearsay or rumor. Triple H, Steph, Vince, Chyna and a handful of others know the truth and we will never know what that truth really is, because we are not one of them and weren’t involved in the situation. Beyond that, Bad things happen in life. That’s life. Chyna (Joanie) did not handle life very well after that. Unfortunate, but reality.
@cpk1994 apparetly none of you saw when I wrote "it made it look like...." did you?
@Turd Ferguson my pleasure. whart a stupid ass nickname.
Dude Triple H had been king of the ring. European champion and Intercontinental Champion. He was leader of DX he was already on the way up before getting with Steph.
It's easy for the rest of them to "All be adults " when Chyna was the only one with her heart broken and the only one who it would really be awkward for moving forward.
Not true. There were a lot of people who weren't for Steph and Hunter.
Stop acting like this is a high school. It not.
@@zero1zerolast393 Wrestlers back then weren't even mature enough for high school tho.
Love chyna profusely. Rip you beautiful soul, legend and icon.
If I was her I would have accepted his offer and wanted a match that night LOL she could have got paid to whoop Stephanie's ass for reals in the ring
Remember those edible wax lips? It looks like you painted some and slapped them on your face. Or had a terrible reaction to a couple of bee stings. Wtf is actually going on there?
@@RawKetchup lmao😂wtf
@@idcwhatuthink4985 That's what I wanna know. All that maintenance but he still left the two caterpillars that are about to battle.
And that must be one of the better photos. Can you imagine what the outtakes must look like?
@@RawKetchup filters on prosthetics... It all is so clear...
If anybody got royally screwed out of all this, it was Test. He and Stephanie were supposed to get married, remember? (Yes i know)
Fantomas Test never really recovered from it, at all. Was suppose to get a big ass push, against Triple H. Never really got it. Gets paired up with a hot chick, and yet...Never gets pushed to win a tag title. Goes back to being face, til he screws over the wwf. Stays heel until he gets paired with another hot chic...and, repeat.
huffy619 the angle with Stacy Keibler was cringe while he was a face. And turning him heel made the story worse.
@Andrew Meers that's what I wanna know
They were never actually getting married it was part of a storyline
And once again, who was involved in that? HHH
Bruce sounds sincere with his story about Chyna/Joanie but for some reason I don't think his words feel sincere. I feel like he's covering for someone, *hard.*
I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
he obviously Is
Chyna was a broken individual, like all of us, but what she endured, no one should have to. RIP
Most of what she endured as an adult was self inflicted.
yep she could of used her fame n status to turn her life around but she chose to stay a victim to her pain ,. begging to be accepted bk to the wwe and they ddnt care until they could profit of her death
She had the propensity for mental illness there already, but no matter what HHH says, they were still living together when he started up with Steph, so how over could it have been? Losing the love of her life like that and then her job because of it, yeah, I'm sure it started that downward spiral.
@@southsudani983I'm just wondering how much experience you have with severe depression? I think I remember at one point in time hearing she was suicidal, so her self medicating with drugs and alcohol doesn't surprise me.
Stephanie must have been insecure. I mean, she already had HHH. Why give Chyna so much grief?
what grief
Because even though you can have the other woman's man their can still be jealousy toward her. I went through it. An ex that got with someone I thought was a friend had her calling my phone, rubbing it in my face, and harassing me. Even though she had him and later ended up cheating and fucking him over lol. Stephanie was probably jealous of Chyna in some way and wanted what she had including her man. Granted I do think her and Paul did fall in love, you can see it when they look and interact with each other, but Paul should handled it more like a man. He should have went to her and said he was in love with Stephanie and wants to be with her. But also Chyna could have handled it better. But granted she had mental and emotional issues and when you are young the way she was you don't really know how to handle stuff like what she went through.
Did u not listen to The podcast u brown mark
Oh no matter the situation, it should be clear there is an acceptance of accountability problem in that at least a few people in that family. My favorite part is not even chyna since everyone want to call out her issues. Stephanie couldn’t come up with any reason to blame whoever her boyfriend was besides “he put it in my head”. And then decided in her head that was a good excuse and told other people. If people didn’t give her a WTF look, they should be slapped.
Stephanie could care less. She gave Chyna no grief.
Conrad spends all that time going through everything for Bruce to shut it down in one sentence. Lol. I love it. It's no one's business. That's their personal life, and they have been married for many years and have 3 beautiful children. Chynas' problems weren't Triple H's doing... They were within her, and she couldn't overcome them.
obviously not the exact situation, but i can relate to Chyna's hurt and grief over her personal life just going to shambles. Bruce is right, it is life but it can be really shitty and yes unfortunately a lot of times some of us will just never heal at all. RIP Chyna. I hope she found some peace in her life eventually
Chyna had a very bad upbringing with abuse and addiction. Then she found wrestling the one thing that kept her sane and grounded. Then that was taken away from her. The 2 things she loved, HHH and wrestling. Snatched from her and she had nothing. Just like her childhood.
It's not HHH's fault that she had a horrible messed up childhood. It IS his fault he started shagging Stephanie behind Chyna's back. Chyna could have just as easily got a job wrestling with another company. She just lost her mind and started doing porn.
It wasn't taken from her, she walked away from it. Her own choice.
Chyna spoke multiple languages fluently. I never knew why she didn't do something with that after leaving wrestling.
Drugs
please do full episode !!! SHE IS ICONIC and WWE never gives her proper shine
You boyfriend cheats on you with the boss's daughter and the boss knows about it.
"Things happen. That's life." - The boss's right hand man
cpk1994 WHAT??? So it’s ok to cheat on someone you’re in a committed relationship to as long as it’s not marriage? You sound like an asshole god help your boyfriend/girlfriend
And then your boss offers you a raise which you decline, quit your job, and then spend the next 15 years using this to justify her drug addiction and trashing them in the media? Yeah she was a real peach.
I hope you had the same energy for the Matt Lita Edge situation.
Bruce never sides with anyone but the boss.Just in case.
If he left her for another woman, he did nothing wrong. If he was in a committed relationship and he cheated on her, he certainly did something wrong, morally speaking.
I used to work for a large retail corporation, and I saw a similar situation unfold, although to my knowledge, nobody was cheating on any anyone else. My hourly supervisor started dating one of my newer co-workers, and though it was strictly against policy, the salaried managers looked the other way and even promoted my co-worker so he would be in a different department and therefore everything would be by the book, so to speak.
It kind of left a sour taste in my mouth, but they are still married with a daughter now nearly 10 years later, and they were always good to me, like truly good and not just superficially nice to make sure I wouldn't talk about. We still chat occasionally even though none of us work there anymore. I looked at it like Bruce looked at Paul and Stephanie, two people that like each other spend 40 hours/wk with each other, things just happen and it isn't really any of my business
Shane didn't like it. He said this on Mick Foley podcast on WWE network
Shane a real one.
Lamar Shakur Shane is the only decent human being of the birth McMahons(him Vince Stephanie). By all accounts a real cool dude Vince and Stephanie however are just two disgusting human beings
This is why WCW shouldn’t had went out of business she could of went there. And this also why it shouldn’t be just one wrestling company everybody doesn’t belong in WWE
Triple H had a plan the whole time. He got what he wanted. Chyna just never recovered from the pain.
And she lied that hunter hit her, she said they fired her, and goes as far as to say she got a fax at a deli, she tried saying they stalked her and ruined her life. Oh yeah and she made porn parodies of their likeness
Peachs'nCreamPie I have a huge feeling she didn’t lie. She said she lied because she felt bad for telling the truth and the backlash it got him. She retracted it. I believe she told the truth the first time
@@melainebullock she didn't tell the truth. and nobody is obligated to stay with whoever just because y'all break up doesn't mean that your whole life has to be down the drain for the next 20 years
Idk i feel Chyna's story is a little fabricated in some areas. Like the fax at the deli that I believe is 100% a lie. i forgot what show she was on but when she said that they said "how did they know you were at the deli?" regardless i believe Triple H had a motive the beginning. He suggested the whole stephanie marrying him story line to vince. He got his spot. He is a hard worker no doubt but his goal was to one day run the company. There quite a few people who he said that too I believe
Mr. Carlos Slim she did tell the truth. But believe what you will
Look how awesome the big eagle WWF title looked, best belt for the best era
Completely off topic
Agreed! Love that damn belt
Winged Eagle fan myself, but this one was a close second.
It's all about Paul Levesque. He gets what he wants. Eff everyone else in his way.
Chyna may as well have beaten the crap out of Vince, Triple H and Stephanie. At least then the punishment of being banned and blacklisted from WWE for life would have fit the crime. This would have made a lot more sense than her being wronged and screwed over and then getting an unofficial lifetime ban on top of it.
Mr. Tees So the First Woman to ever hold Intercontinental Championship Gold, First Woman to be in the Royal Rumble, Cannot be Included into The WWE Hallof Fame????? Who's the Lowlife running the HofF?????
Joey Buddafucco beat the hell out of Chyna on Celebrity Boxing. She wasn't whipping Trips or Vince.
She didn’t get some sort of ban because of this. They literally offered her a raise to stay following this that she declined. The blacklisting of Chyna was because of the events that followed this. She made a sex tape with X-PAC, had domestic assault issues with him and had widely known substance abuse issues. And later on she made more porn movies. That was what led to her blacklisting, not this incident. But she did eventually get her induction, which I’m happy she got.
Unfortunate story but in hindsight, Chyna (Joanie Laurer) and WWE would all have been better off if they had made an angle out of the whole Chyna/Stephanie/HHH triangle.
It probably would have made them all tons of money and Chyna could have achieved superstar status with fans for eventually kicking Stephanie's butt as ultimate retribution. It would have made for a riveting story arc.
Y’all remember the time, when everybody blamed Edge and Lita for falling in lieb with each other?! Yeah.. Triple H did Chyna more dirty and no one made heat.. The hypocrisy
True hypocrisy. The reason why is because Joanie was in and out of recovery and had spiraled out of control and people seemed to think her story had not enough weight. A trained eye could see that it had even more weight and sure helped her down that path. It’s sad of the double standard because she was a phenomenal revolutionary performer.
What’s a lieb and how do you fall in it?
There’s no denying that you might have a record of what happened with Chyna in the office with Vince, but you’ll never fully understand how she felt, being a woman in that environment and feeling like you were so far gone because she lost her man... Vince is not fit to address Chyna’s problem...
You are stupid
A woman would get more sympathy than an upset man. Especially in that environment 'cos they're mostly guys, who'd say "you'll get over her pal" if you're a guy.
A woman shouldn’t feel “so far gone” just because she lost her man. That’s the problem! Chyna had a lot of issues, & people try to blame that all on HHH even though they were there way before these 2 even met….even her family said so. The woman lied about both HHH & XPac hitting her & she obsessed about the WWF/E until she passed away. She should’ve just taken some time off, then came back & focused on her career. They offered her the choice of being on the alternate show that Steph & HHH were on, so she wouldn’t see them, but she refused. Vince was “fit” to address the issue, because he’s the boss & Chyna wanted to speak with him lol
They lied to Joanie for months about them
Who, in this life, has never lied or been lied to? Did she think Vince would pick her over Stephanie? If she can’t be professional and work with her emotions on the shelf, Joanie did what’s best for her; just don’t cry about it every chance you get. Paul and Stephanie are meant to be so let them be.
Chyna, Granted the personal demons were always there but it seemed to me became intensified after she confronted everyone over the Stephanie - Hunter issue. The whole situation should have been handled differently. Chyna needs to be inducted into the HOF on her own. Just with DX isn’t good enough.
exactly...
@@kshinokevin 1000 times right
@@bobby.m136 It would be interesting to see what Hunter's (Triple H's) take on the age old "urban legend" rumor that the late "Macho Man" Randy Savage was dating (a "Barely Legal" (age) (like the first ECW (2001) PPV special) Stephanie McMahon. "You wanna checkout the Slim Jim, Oooh Yeah !" I have read somewhere (in a podcast, 'Storytime with ("Dirty") Dutch Mantell') that Vince McMahon forbids his talent to fraternize with his family. "I really thought that Steph would be a Catch (becuase that was his position in Little League; a Catcher), and I couldn't get to Second Base. But now, Vinnie Mac told me that I can't make it to Home. I am stuck in the Outfield area (a position that he did play, for real, in a pro Baseball team)." - Randy Savage
It sucks that their relationship ended the way it did, and no one really knows the timeline for when they broke up, but they never buried her. She was booked strong through 2001. I mean, look at how she was booked to squash Ivory. How much more proof do you want, at that point? If they wanted to bury her, they could've. They've done it plenty of times in the past. She reportedly asked for an unrealistic figure to re-sign. By that point in May 2001, there was no more WCW, and the WWF had all the leverage. I think she reportedly asked for Austin levels of money.
Vince DEFINITELY wanted to get involved in his daughters love life
He told you?
@@TL2354 Think Donald and Ivanka
Vince pitched an angle where he was the father of Steph's baby. LOL.
Vince wanted to watch Triple Snaut nose dive stephy on all 4s
@@nick56677 Who wouldn't want to see that?
Notice everyone against you, Bruce? It may have taken place as you said, but it’s not excusable...especially as much as you are saying.
Tammy actions abused Chris physically, Hunter's plan emotionally abused Joannie. Stephanie had the pick of any man and choose the talent that was already taken or at least trying to end a long term relationship civilly.
There is a rumor that when Tori (Terri Poch) was dating Test, it was during his storyline with Steph. Steph was said to have got into the storyline to much and Tori spoke up about that.
Hunter was in love with the McMahon name
What nonsense
I would be in love with Stephanie regardless. The fact that she is a McMahon is just a bonus in my opinion.
Ok let’s imagine- chyna and HHH got married, HBK and sunny got married, lita and Matt hardy got married, macho man and ms Elizabeth stayed together and Nancy stayed with that devil worshiper... yay now everyone’s “happy”
the devil worshiper = Kevin Sullivan, the "Taskmaster" ?; I remembered reading something, in a wrestling magazine or an online pro wrestling blog about a rumored (urban legend) couple: the "Macho Man" Randy Savage had hooked up with Stephanie McMahon... = wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/the-mystery-behind-the-randy-savage-stephanie-mcmahon-rumor-has-been-solved/ - (Wrestling News Co.): "The Mystery behind the Randy Savage - Stephanie McMahon rumor has been solved" : by Corey Jacobs (September 26, 2017); "the Hitman" Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels' (very) RAW promo: "Sunny Days; the HBK had lost his smile."
Shawn would have never married Sunny, lmao. He'd marry Scary Sherri before Sunny. 🤣
What?
Don’t forget Marc mero stays with Sable and Kurt angle stays with Karen
Everyone in the locker room had their sunny days, Shawn was just using her.
This situation alone is why I will never respect the McMahon family
Exactly too late for respect they have kids and moved on.
Keon Alexander I think they’ll be okay.
Why? Because Vince offered Chyna a raise to stay and was respectful as possible? So you hate the whole family forever because Stephanie fell in love when she was in her 20s? You're gonna hold a grudge for the rest of your life?
@@yourgfsbf9955 Haters gonna hate. Just know that 90% of them are mentally handicapped. They are too challenged to understand that a promotion can't afford to put the belt on you 14 times, keep you on tv for years, and put you in Wrestlemania after Wrestlemania just because you're sleeping with the bosses daughter. The dude had to be doing something right. The greats like Steve Austin, Mick Foley, and even the late great Eddie Guererro have had nothing but great things to say about Hunter. But I guess fans know more about the guy than any professional wrestler or business man that worked with him lmao
Keon Alexander why?
"...they have a happy family and all that shit..."
LOL
I don’t think it was the money or the fame. She just was heartbroken. So sad.
Definitely heartbroken. But hard to say money didn’t matter in light of the offer she wanted. But I also think she may have asked for something she knew she wouldn’t get thinking she’d leave but that if she somehow got that offer that she’d try to make it work.
I'll watch the older shows but Fu** being in wrestling ...it's really like permanent High School
Is everyone else glossing over the fact that Stephanie is pretty fuckin’ hot. Even if she wasn’t the boss’s daughter I could easily see Triple H or any of the other guys hollering at her. Props to Hunter.
I like Chyna but she clearly was not in the right state of mind. After hearing her and Xpac argue on Opie and Anthony and other places id have to side with Xpac...
Bruce always tolls the company line I don’t think for a second Vince made her a offer
Toe the company line, not toll. If you don’t know the difference then shut yer trap
JR also confirmed this and said the offer was $750k.
Chyna said Kevin had set it up for her to come to WCW if and when she wanted... She said VINCE called her and said -" Don't go, your future is here",,, she should have gone , how do you work with Multiple people you've been/slept with?
The more Pritchard "they just fell in love" and "Chyna LEFT!!!!!!!!!", the more I realize he's never been in more than one relationship. If you work with someone you're dating, even if you're all "adults" as he keeps yammering on about, it's still uncomfortable as hell. It's still not a great working environment. In the same breath, he then says that this happens a lot in wrestling. But not everyone ends up in the same situation Chyna was in.
And why was it different than Marc Mero, or guys like Chris Candido? Because Stephanie was in a position of power. She was already a featured performer on the show. She was going to be one of the presumptive executives of the shows (and eventually became head of creative). HHH, meanwhile, was in a position of power. Him dismissing it as 'Chyna chose to leave' like she had another job waiting was ignoring the fact that she was in a no-win situation.
Joanie's story is read. Pritchard says that's not what happened. Ends up rephrasing it. For the record, if Joanie and Stephanie spoke privately, Bruce wouldn't have been privy to that. So him saying "none of it happened" is disingenuous at best, outside of his knowledge at worst.
The truth is that the two parties could not have come to terms on a new deal and Chyna left when her contract expired. Bruce saying she chose to leave was spinning the truth a bit. Chyna saying she was fired was an outright lie to appear more as a victim.
If it was too difficult for Chyna to continue working there, she wouldn't have tried to negotiate a new deal. If Vince had met her demands, she would have stayed. You have to consider that there would have been massive locker room upheaval if Chyna was mistreated.
Sunny was banging HBK, who was a top guy. Melina cheated with Batista, who was a made guy. A lot of how things go in these situations depends on how professional you are and how many problems you create. Matt Hardy made huge problems, which led to his original release.
Well said Bruce. Well said Conrad. Everyone can speculate what the motives of all 3 people involved were. Paul & Stephanie made their choice. Joanie was an unfortunate casualty of a life event, as human emotion is unpredictable. There are plenty of shoots stating that Joanie was not well-liked backstage, & she had her issues, but at the end of the day, having someone you love leave you would break almost anyone's spirit. If she had a stronger support group of family & friends, maybe things would have worked out differently for her, to where she could have moved on more healthfully & emotionally in her life. As a brother, I understand Shane's apprehension. Vince was right to stay out of the relationship- 2 people are going to do what they want to do.
Relationships end everyday.
Damn triple h def had the right attitude to make it to the top what I mean by tht is having the heart to shit on the ppl that get u over
Something I just found out that I never knew before was that Chyna's last match was judgement day 2001 and the raw after that was when triple h tore his quad. So was he injured when she found out about him and Steph and they broke up?????
She found out in 2001 when she snooped & found a note from Stephanie. Recently, HHH talked about his relationship with Stephanie & admitted he was trying to get with her a month into their McMahon-Helmsley story-line. And no, HHH didn't tear his quad yet. He had a chain match with Kane at JD 2001.
@@SilverWolf442 - He tore his quad the next night on RAW in a tag team title match. It was Austin/HHH vs. Jericho/Benoit.
Chyna didn't call Stephanie a bitch or did she think she stole HHH, Chyna said you can't just take someone they have to go willingly. So she never blamed Stephanie
Poetic justice says that, for Triple H, Steph will always be sloppy seconds from Macho Man. OOOOHHHH YEEEAAAHHH! DIG IT!
This is still a subject that I have problems wrapping my head around.
The company screwed her. And treat her as an afterthought as if she didnt contribute to the business.
And it had to take her dying before ever getting mentioned after that.
Realistically, her run was more or less winding down at that point anyway.
I honestly don't think she would have been around much longer regardless.
Yeah she was so "good" that she was booed out of the building in her
NJPW match against Muta. Japanese fans don't BOO unless your performance
SUCKS
Tim F no it was not it was just beginning she was in the women’s match at wrestle mania that year and was booked to win
Her run was not over in the slightest
It is surprising how many of the commenters were in the room like Bruce was. Shocking!
Blank Name I was. It was a very tense environment.
I was there too. I was sitting next to Travis and we kept asking Trips about why he was over. Bruce had us thrown out so he could tell this story without contradiction.
Chyna is one of the women that made female wrestling what it is today and the WWE did her wrong. It's a sad tragic story that will never have any justice brought to it's end.
Those Barbie dolls prancing around pretending to be tough??? Don't blame Chyna for that shit
Wwe didn't do her wrong. They offered her a better deal and the time to think about it. She made her own choices.
@@davidgraham8299 if by a better deal you mean a number so low she was offended by it, then yeah. It was clear that Steph and HHH didn’t want to look at her anymore and wanted her out.
IMNSHO, Triple H is the most over rated wrestler of the last 25 years.
He was always in the second category. Eg the guy who worked with the man
Triple H was a great wrestler! He was no where near overrated.
ALDAIR nope he was the guy who works with the guy who draws money. Second rate at best.
ALDAIR I think you need to have your eyes checked.
Mauricio93201 that’s hard to quantify. Omega is nowhere near as big or as known as triple h, nor has he been wrestling as long.
They love each other, accept it and move on? WTF? Regardless of Chyna's personal problems with drugs and alcohol later in life. You just don't go behind someone who supposed to be your girlfriend back and start seeing another girl. I don't care if she didn't want children or if she going through some shit at the time. You just don't cheat on people, period! And Triple H and Stephanie were wrong! And because it was during the Attitude Era and almost every wrestler was popular and at their peak, I suppose Chyna thought she could do better without WWE. But without WWE and losing Triple H, whom she loved so much. Her life fell apart. I mean, no one could imagine being cheated on. Thank God, Owen was more of an man than Triple H to do a romantic BS storyline with Debra. Regardless of Triple H not being married and having children. Most of those guys like Austin, Rock, Mick Foley didn't bother to boost their careers in favor of a marriage/love triangle/girlfriend/sex storyline. Triple H most likely saw himself really getting pushed to the top with his storyline and just jumped on board without thinking of the consequences. He dance with the devil, a lot of people hate him, Chyna has died. Regardless of being partly in charge of WWE. He still got burned.
One of the most famous stories of mixing business with pleasure!
Triple H just wanted the keys of the kingdom
HHH destroyed Chyna's life and slept his way to the top that's the fact does anyone really beleave that he would be a 15 time champion or CEO of WWE if he had not shacked up with Stephanie.
Destroyed her life? Have you ever had a gf? lol people break up all the time bud. You're not responsible for your ex's life decisions. Can you imagine how many people's lives would be destroyed if that was the case? Use your brain.
HHH kissed the best bunghole in the business.
Careful man, ur makin to much sense for the internet. @@eddie0019
PsychoYeoX I agree Hunter is not responsible for her actions
Anyone who thinks HHH would have never been a top guy if he didn't marry Stephanie is an idiot. He was ridiculously over in 98 with DX. Way before this love triangle ever started. Dozens of wrestlers, including Bob Holly who has openly admitted that he hates HHH has said he's one of the best workers in the business and was always into the creative/booking side of things. I'm not saying he didn't have an ulterior motive when he first got with Stephanie, judging by the things I've heard about him he probably did, however, he was always gonna be a top guy. And judging by the job he's been doing with NXT while the main product goes to shit, we should be grateful that he's the guy taking charge of the future of WWE.
bruce Is covering for Steph & Vince
RIP CHYNA#1 WWF LEGEND!
We love Chyna 🥺💕
What is the point of these. Bruce just denies everything
Bruce always the company man keeps annoyingly choosing his words wisely.
Hhh is a gold digger
“14x World Gold-digger"
@@lillagahnavich7700 uuhhhh
In hindsight we can all say triple h dating Stephanie was a power move. But all moves aren’t good moves, his ass was still on the line with a move like that.. if he and Steph wouldn’t of worked out his career could’ve potentially been over. He took a big risk and struck GOLD.
cpk1994 indeed. If not for the infamous “Curtain Call” in MSG in 1996, he would have probably been in the main event scene a lot sooner.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley would never been bigger than Austin and Austin 316. Steve Austin saved the company in the Monday Night wars with the company on his back. Sure hhh would have success but he would not have been bigger than the Rise of Stone Cold starting at that King of Ring.
I don't think guys like HHH think about what happens if it all fucks up? Not an insult or compliment. That's just how those apparent personalities operate.
I empathize with China, Hunter should have been a man about it, but we all know his character doesn't allow that behavior. He is a boy. Steph, Shefell in love I don't blame her, but the best thing she could have done would be to say, I understand this happens, I am hurtand would appreciate a little timeoff, but I wish them well and I will act professional always. I just need a little break to get over it. I will personally wish them the bestupon returning and let them know there are no hard feelings.
In all aspects as humans, all of us would have married for money and power, this two factors would have been deciding factor in this decisions for triple h also Steph was good looking too
@@shermhart7617 That's true but if you're gonna do it at least be a man about it and breakup with her instead of letting it get to the point where she was the last one to know. That's the equivalent of your boyfriend or girlfriend breaking up with you over social media and you finding out with everyone else instead of being them being mature about it and having an official break-up.
Chyna was a beautiful woman.
Chyna was a good wrestler who lived a good life RIP!
I also love how Bruce sits up here defending the dating thing when many companies have rules about employees not fraternizing (i.e. No dating between employees)...
Charlotte Flair and Andrade "Cien" Almas = Woooo !; Renee Young (WWE) and Jon Moxley (formerly Dean Ambrose) (AEW)...
Can't hate on HHH for trading a tough 2$ steak for a filet mignon.
What Triple H did he had his reasons for doing. Whether they were good reasons or not isn't for us to decide. It's none if our business. The thing is, he did trade and he traded up. Stephanie is HOT and she seems to be a good person. And, she is indeed the bosses daughter. Lol. She did come with benefits other than being hot. Triple H had more than paid his dues. Wrestling prelim matches with the Godwin's getting thrown in the hog slop, he finished a match with a torn quad and afterwards he couldn't even walk from the ring. Who was there to help him? Stephanie. When one of the girls tore her quad and couldn't finish the match she was crying and Triple H was right there telling her "it's ok. Everything will be fine." Beneath what we see, both Stephanie and Triple H are good folks. I'm not knocking Chyna but to say she was "unstable" is putting it mildly. And Triple H and Stephanie have been married for 20 years. So clearly Triple H isn't the kind of guy to jump around and they both seem happy together. Sadly, Chyna lost control and let her life take a nose dive.
Edit I have to say that Bruce Pritchard is so totally different from Brother Love. 😅😂
It's a shame because it seemed like triple h was a good fit for her. Didn't drink or do drugs, had a good family. When he left then Chyna unfortunately was able to do all those bad things and it got the best of her. R. I. P Chyna. One of the greats for sure
🙄🙄 yea okay cause these people will really tell the truth! especially with Vince being the owner of the company and I bet you he made it difficult for her to stay cause let’s be real at the end of the day that’s HIS DAUGHTER that he’ll make sure is okay. People are not going to shoot themselves in the foot when these three run the wrestling world. The point is that this destroyed everything chyna worked for cause she wasn’t able to come back. You can tell this man is great friends with Triple H and Stephanie.
You were working for the WWF when this happened?
@@TL2354 many people who don’t kiss these people asses tell the truth about what went down. Prichard is one of Vince most loyal employee so he deff won’t talk shit about The McMahon family and how they screw chyna over. So I didn’t or don’t have to work for wwf to know shit!
Paul did Joanie wrong.
John Sochacki no he didn't she just couldn't get over a break up.
He did and she couldn't.
He cheated on her. Made her a joke in her work place. Got her fired.
Jonathan coleman
A break up is mutual. Fucking someone else behind her back is not a "break up"
Fuck You
*you're
I really want the crowd to boo the shit out of Triple H when DX is inducted into the HoF. Hear them chant "Chyna!" over HHH's speech just to remind him of the person he screwed over.
It'll either be boos or crickets for Paul.
@@brucegough it was neither you dumb mark
You ever wonder if Triple H ever has any guilt for what happened to Chyna?
I think he regrets how he went about it but we will never know
Honestly though the stories she said were clearly paraphrased and meshed together here. So yeah obviously she didn't talk to Stephanie the day of that meeting, and I assume all wrestlers at the time weren't just chillin' at the headquarters lol - when it comes to the "spreading of the sea" comment. I have watched other shoots from females who were there at the time and said she definitely was being treated weird because people didn't want heat. I definitely believe she asked for more money and I really don't blame her there. Just a shitty situation all around.
Everybody puts up RIP & have respect for the dead, let's try doing it when there here!
Where are they?
Prichard is a such a vince's stooge, no wonder he worked with him for so long. Everytime I hear a story of him he's always protecting vince.
Triple H is the Kevin Federline of Professional Wrestling.
- "Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner
chyna got a raw deal in this, and steph pulled my dad owns the company. hhh saw a future in steph and a girl that was real young when she hooked up with him he played her like a fiddle. now hes 6 feet under away from running the company. chyna saw her life in the toilet. but they could not keep her around.and she knew it her job was more important to her and she blew it.
I'm not going to speak I'll of Chyna because she's no longer with us but you guys need to stop pretending she was some Angel that got screwed over.
You guys should do a full Chyna episode
I've been listening to Bruce's podcast from the beginning, and he's made a lot of comments that made me reach this conclusion: everyone always says HHH is the "heir to the throne", and will essentially take over when Vince dies (because we all know that motherfucker will be in charge as long as he's alive). This is not true. Stephanie is being groomed to take over the company, that's clear as day. Sure HHH will be an important part for the rest of his life given that he's her husband, but Steph is the true heir to the throne. Vince isn't going to give his company to a wrestler no matter how much he likes him. Stephanie will have the final say just as her father always has.
Jericho said it best, its always the good ones die way too soon...
Somehow I heard this being told differently by Jim Ross he said Chyna wanted a million dollars a year and Vince said no. Am I hearing this wrong? She was screwed over no drought about that. Karma is a bitch what goes around comes around. Pray it never happens to them.
I do think there's more to the story than what we're being told. Can u believe as a man u and ur work colleague are dating ....then all of a sudden she ends up with the boss' son ....I personally believe TripleHHH married Mcmann as a power play so that his carèer would be set in stone....and to be honest anyone would fall in love with Stephanie McMann regardless of her last name.
Then maybe. Not now.
I wish Chyna could’ve stuck around a little longer. WWE did the draft a few months after her release and if she wasn’t released she could’ve just went to the opposite brand of HHH. Or just would’ve put HHH & Stephanie on one brand and Chyna the other.
They did Chyna really wrong ... SMH
I love you Chyna ❤️❤️❤️ RIP
Shit happens, deal with it.
She was mad triple h brough her in the business, dated and then found someone else. Was heartbroken over it just to date ... XPAC 🙄🙄🙄
HHH caused the whole situation, he put Chyna in a really bad situation to basically have her decide to deal with it or leave.
I wish they’d do a full episode on Chyna.
Someone said in an interview shoot that Chyna confronted Stephanie in a hallway and Stephanie walked away and went into a room, Chyna punched the door after it closed.
Vince was smart keeping them apart, Chyna would kill Stephanie.
I wish she would have accepted the offer and then the be Beast she was supposed to be, and find a way to get Stephanie in the ring and pay her back for REALZ💪😂I would have wanted a match that night LOL
Chyna died from a broken heart she never recovered from this.
RIP Chyna !
A trailblazer!
I agree with Bruce that it is a part of life sometimes when these things happen but the reason why it's so messed up and people still talk about it isn't because of the McMahon name. If hhh hadve been honest with chyna and not strung her along so long then she wouldn't have handled it that way.
As a wise man once says "Life's a B!tch"
Agreed. Trip & Steph being in love is fine. But the tacky way they started their relationship is where they get heat. Chyna even says you can't stop love and she could accept them loving each other. But she said she wished they had just been upfront about it from the start rather than playing her for a year and her having to find out for herself.
Shame the way it went down. Chyna deserved better, from Trips and from the company. RIP.
They dropped the ball. I’m sure they knew the brand split was coming soon. They could’ve stuck Chyna on Smackdown and HHH/Steph on RAW. She was worth what she was asking for. Besides a lot of people debunked Bruce saying she asked for 2 million. She asked for 1.
The brand split only happened because Vince originally wanted to cancel Smackdown & resurrect WCW in early 2002, trouble was none of the network's would touch it.
HHH did what he had to do to be a top guy. Stephanie is definitely a heel in this scenario.
He was already a top guy when this shit happened, two times WWF champion.
@@davidgraham8299 he more worked with the top guy. He was never in the rock/Austin level