From rajah.com:
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Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer was asked by a reader during his radio show (available here) why WWE has not utilized Mick Foley on television more frequently since his return to the organization last November. He said this is due to wrestler/executive Paul 'Triple H' Levesque's lobbying, who is resentful of "The Hardcore Legend."
Meltzer reports Levesque deprecates Foley whenever his name is broached in creative meetings. While Brian Gewirtz, WWE's Senior Vice President of Creative Writing, feels Foley is creative and a good performer, Levesque thinks otherwise. He says Foley 'doesn't look tough' and can't be taken seriously as an in-ring performer.
A former WWE creative writer told Power Slam in 2008 under the condition of anonymity that Levesque would disparage Foley whenever he appeared for the company, and in the process, diminished his value in the eyes of Vince and Stephanie McMahon.
"Foley is an out-of-shape nobody," Levesque was reported as saying by the writer. "No one cares about him at all. Funaki puts more asses in the seats than Foley does. He should pay us for coming on our shows."
Meltzer believes the real reason Levesque still holds Foley in contempt is because he gets irritated over the consensus of his closest co-workers that his memorable matches with Foley in 2000 'made him a star.'
Foley has criticized Levesque in the past; he took several veiled shots at 'H in his 2007 autobiography The Hardcore Diaries. He also took issue online with Levesque belittling ring announcer Lilian Garcia with a remark he felt was hurtful during an April 2010 episode of Raw. Foley acknowledged then that he may have cost himself professionally for speaking out against Levesque, but felt he had to stand by his principles.
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What do you guys think about this?
It's my opinion that Triple H became a legitimate champion and main event superstar after his Royal Rumble and No Way Out matches against Cactus Jack in 2000. Yes, he had some great matches before that, mostly for the IC Title against The Rock, but he had never really proven himself in a main event atmosphere. Those two matches are classics, and Foley put himself through hell to make Triple H look like "The Game." I mean, he took a fucking Pedigree into a pile of thumbtacks for Christ's sake. Mick put Triple H over the same way he put over The Rock in 1999 and Shawn Michaels in 1997. And then Foley jobbed to Hunter again at WrestleMania 2000.
If the above story is true, then Triple H is an absolute piece of shit who doesn't recognize what was done for him in the past. Foley went out of his way to make Hunter look like a true World Champion.
If this is really the reason why we never got to see the Dean Ambrose vs Mick Foley feud come to light (which has GOLD written all over it), then fuck Triple H in his stupid ear.