Dirk Hayhurst Speaks on Outing Triple H

Dirk Hayhurst spoke at the Hall of Fame Luncheon Club at Tozzi’s on 12th on Monday about his career threatening injury, his book "The Bullpen Gospels", and outing Triple H's recent surgery on twitter:

“Alabama is the poster state of blowing crap up and absolute redneckery,” Hayhurst joked. “It’s jacked-up trucks and good ol’ boys in overalls.

“... In Alabama (professional), wrestling is king.”

It was the place where one bad wrestler by the name of Triple H also was a patient of renowned surgeon Dr. James Andrews. “He’s a monster of man, huge, huge muscles,” Hayhurst said. “And he’s like a villain wrestler.”

Hayhurst hatched a plan to get Triple H to endorse “The Bullpen Gospels.” Soon after Triple H came out of surgery, Hayhurst asked the wrestler to read the book and recommend it. When Triple H gave a muffled response, Hayhurst said, “and I’ll take that as a you loved it.”

Hayhurst went to his hotel and fired out posts of Triple H’s love for the book onto the Internet. Within an hour, he said, he was being threatened to be sued. The WWF’s Vince McMahon — Triple H’s father-in-law — was after him.

Other wrestlers were “going to show up and kill me,” Hayhurst said. “These were people in masks, flexing with a mask on, Confederate flag in the background. I’m seriously worried for my life.”

Long story short, Triple H hears about it. A meeting in the clinic between Hayhurst and Triple H — with plenty of people present — is set up.

The joke is Hayhurst didn’t know it’s a joke.

“I come in late ... and I hear, ‘Hayhurst, you think you can just wreck my career?’ ” said Hayhurst. “He knocks aside a table, he comes at me. Then he says, ‘Dude, I don’t care. I run around with my shirt off in my underwear ... Seriously, you think I care what you write on the Internet?’

“Meanwhile, there’s a puddle forming at my feet ... ”

He said Triple H shares his philosophy that a person must separate his work character from who they are...More?

source: cantonrep.com