Triple H Nixed Angle With Undertaker’s Son

Freddie Prinze Jr has shared some wild stories about his time as a writer with WWE. The latest involves a storyline that was in the works that was never fully fleshed out. The reason is that Triple H buried it.

On the most recent “Wrestling With Freddie,” Prinze said that he was asked to bring somebody in from developmental for The Undertaker to destroy while building a feud with Edge. After a brainstorming session, young talent was picked and the idea was to have his claim to be Taker’s son.

Things moved along and were approved by Michael Hayes. Promos started to air on SmackDown. When Triple H discovered who they were using, he put a stop to the entire angle. The Game didn’t think the wrestler they picked was big enough to be credible.

“So we’re in the production meeting and everyone’s putting their segments through. Here comes our segment and nobody said boo the last two weeks or even three weeks of TV that we got out of it. Not one agent. Not Kevin Dunn. Not Vince. Not anybody. All of a sudden out of nowhere, Hunter says ‘Are we seriously going with this guy?’ Remember, this is not a Pay-Per-View match. This is not a guy that would get any sort of offense on The Undertaker. It would be just a build up for The Undertaker to have something to do so he could smash this guy and then get rolling over to Edge. He says, ‘Are we really going to go with this guy?’ Vince goes, ‘What do you mean? What’s the problem?’ He says, ‘He looks like he cuts my grass, man’, and Vince laughed.

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Literally all the air went out of the room. Like you could just feel it. Because now it’s embarrassing to the company, well, at least from my perspective. You put something on TV for three weeks and then you remove it with no explanation, there’s no way you can do that. Like that doesn’t happen on any show. You could replace someone like on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air back in the day. Vince laughs, and then Hunter laughs, and then Kevin Dunn laughs, I mean he sells for it. You would have thought it was the best joke ever. So I’m like, oh man, this is dead. We’re dead, and Vince goes, ‘All right, dump it.’”

Freddie Prinze Jr said he felt horrible for Hadrian Howard, the wrestler who was chosen to portray The Undertaker’s ‘son.’ Triple H ultimately wielded his influence to make sure it never happened. It’s a very interesting story about one of wrestling’s many ‘What ifs.’

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