John Pollock: Hunter, with Smackdown kind of a little thin right now on the heel side, do you see either you or Shawn Michaels possibly moving over? The two of you have been kind of together in this feud for quite some time now. Do you see a crossover possibly?
Hunter: That's not a decision for us, that's a decision for, you know, Vince and everybody, but I think that the beauty of the split is not to take guys from one show and move them to another to try to even out the rosters, it's... the opportunity of having those shows is to create stars and I think that, you know, before people realize what's happening there'll be, you know, if people think there's a need for one thing on one show, before they know it, it'll be there. I don't think it's a matter of moving guys around to adjust the flow necessarily. It's an opportunity for the young guys to become the next megastars, you know, and I think that's the beauty of the whole system.
A little later, Pollock was able to talk to Hunter again.
JP: Hunter, you're under alot of scrutiny because of who you're married to. Do you think it's more pressure or less on you to go out there and put on a great match every night because of that?
HHH: I don't really care about that, that's never bothered me. It did a little bit at first, not from a standpoint of what other peole say outside of our industry because they're not in our industry and they don't know, just from the perception of the guys, you know, but I think I've proven myself over the years, and over the years before and since then I don't think that anybody feels, that's in the know anyways, that deals with the top of the business, I don't think there's an issue, but you know, quite frankly, I don't necessarily think it matters. I go out there every time to have the best match I possibly can, whether anybody believes that, likes that, doesn't like that, it doesn't matter to me, that's what I do, I'm an entertainer, I go out there and try to entertain fans the best that I can. Every single time that I go to the ring I'm out there to steal the show, no surprise about it, you know what I mean.
JP: Hunter, we heard word that Sean Waltman was recently backstage at a show. Is there any chance of him maybe coming back into the mix?
HHH: I hope so. That's up to Sean Waltman, you know. Sean Waltman has alot of issues and demons in his life and Sean is one of my closest, was one of my closest friends, he's still what I would consider one of my best friends, I'm very close to Sean. We don't talk as much as we used to. I hope that Sean can straighten out all of the things in his life that he needs to, not to come back to wrestling, but because, you know, I care about him as a person and I want to see him be happy, healthy and live a long life. If that involves coming back into wrestling, then nothing would make me happier, because I think that Sean Waltman was one of the best talents. I was a huge, other than personally being his friend, I was a huge fan of his, you know. I enjoyed watching him work, I enjoyed watching him wrestle, and I would love to see him come back for that purpose in mind, which is coming back and entertaining the fans. He's a great performer, you know.
JP: Also, WWE is now starting to try to have a RAW and Smackdown pay per view each month. Coming up you're doing three pay per views in six weeks. Do you worry that it's possibly spreading the pay per view audience a little too thin asking them to pay $35 three times in six weeks?
HHH: Well, I look at it like this. It was not that long ago, maybe three, four years ago, that there were 24 pay per views from the two companies, and then there was, you know, a few, a handful from ECW, and all these different things. The market was a whole lot more saturated then and people were buying and buying and buying. I don't think it's an issue. I think if we went back to doing 24 in a year, I think that would be maybe too much, but I think that...I don't think that having 14 pay per views this year is too much. I don't think that having 16 would be too much. If you start going beyond that it might be too much, you know. The fans are going to buy what they wanna buy. If it's good programming, they're gonna want to buy it.