Bruce Prichard Shuts Down Rumors of Beef With Triple H and Stephanie McMahon

Bruce Prichard is clearing the air once and for all—there’s no beef with Triple H or Stephanie McMahon.

On a recent episode of Something to Wrestle, Prichard responded to internet chatter suggesting he had heat with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon after years away from the company.

Conrad Thompson brought up the speculation head-on, asking if there were ever hard feelings that needed resolving when Prichard returned to WWE and eventually started working under Triple H’s leadership.

“The perception online was that you had a falling out with them and maybe needed to mend fences,” Thompson said. “Is that real, or is it just rumor and innuendo?”

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Prichard didn’t hesitate to shoot that down. He said his relationship with both Stephanie and Hunter was strong—especially when viewed in hindsight—and any perceived “drama” was simply a mix of human emotion and life circumstances, not actual animosity.

“Tremendous. And with Steph, when you’re in the moment, you have feelings and emotions. You’re angry, you’re upset, until you look in the mirror and go, ‘Okay, I could have done better. I could have done things differently.’”

He also touched on how stepping away from the business gave him something more valuable than corporate power or creative control—time with his kids. That time at home, he now views as priceless.

“With hindsight, I realized I never missed a soccer game, a football game, a wrestling match—any of that with my kids—because I was able to be home. There’s not enough money in the world that can buy back what you miss.”

Prichard then clarified that while he’d worked with Triple H during his time as an on-screen talent, he’d never collaborated with him on the creative side until much later. And despite rumors, that partnership was always solid.

“With Hunter, I worked with Paul when he was a talent. I never really worked with him creatively until this stint. I never had an issue with him.”

Prichard also made it clear that accusations of him being a “yes-man” to Vince McMahon were completely off the mark—and usually came from people who project their own behavior onto others.

“People can go back and say whatever they want—kissing ass or whatever—but the only people who say that are people who do that themselves. Vince always used to laugh at the idea that I was a yes-man. I was the one who told him no. I argued with him in private and fought for my point. When we left the room, we were in unison.”

As for those supposed hard feelings that fans love to speculate about? According to Bruce, that narrative never had any truth to it.

“So any perceived hard feelings—I don’t know where that ever came from, because there weren’t any. People want to create animosity that simply isn’t there because they’ve never been in that role.”

So it’s clear that Prichard never had beef with Triple H or Stephanie McMahon. Whether fans want to believe it or not, the man behind some of WWE’s biggest creative decisions insists that the drama was never real. In the end, sometimes people just want a story that isn’t there.

Do you buy Bruce Prichard’s version of events, or do you think there’s more to the story behind the scenes? Drop your take in the comments and let’s talk about it.

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