Last night, Damian Priest defended his World Heavyweight Championship against Seth Rollins at WWE Money in the Bank PLE. The match turned into a Triple Threat bout after Drew McIntyre cashed in his MITB contract. However, Priest was able to retain the title after CM Punk attacked McIntyre.
At one point during the match, Rollins delivered a Falcon Arrow to Priest. Rollins then covered Priest, but the latter didn’t kick out at two.
During the Money in the Bank post-show press conference, Paul “Triple H” Levesque addressed the botched moment.
“Human beings in a ring, mistakes happen, things happen, it is what it is. It’s funny for me now looking at that, if that was something I was involved in as a talent, I don’t care how good the rest of it was, that would be all I would think about. And to me, it’s a shame that that’s all people will talk about and that’s all people will hit Damian Priest with while he had a phenomenal performance tonight. But a bunch of people will attack that, criticize that, comment on that. I don’t know why, that’s just the negative so outweighs the positive sometimes. And to me, I wish I could just go in the back, shut off his phone, have no one talk to him for a while, and just have him think about all the other great stuff that happened in that, and the role that he’s been on, and how great of a job he has done as World Champion…
I hate for it to be like, ‘Oh yeah, you’re that guy that didn’t kick out the one time’. That’s the shame part to me, because his performance tonight was off the charts, as was Seth’s, as was Drew’s, as was Punk’s, as was everybody else in this show tonight. It’s just the way the world works.”
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— iitsTemper (@iitsTemper) July 7, 2024