The story, which graphically focuses on Hunter as one of the headline acts at WrestleMania 27, suggests he will have already returned to TV by the time the interview is "current."
Hunter's interview does not reveal who he will be feuding against upon his return, but Hunter mentions The Miz and Wade Barrett as two wrestlers who have risen to the top while he's been off TV the past nine months.
WWE Mag: You're returning to WWE after a slew of top guys have left the company. Does the landscape feel that much different to you?
Hunter: "It does. I'd been in the ring a million times with a lot of the guys who left. Now, when you look at Wade Barrett or The Miz, these are guys that I've never been in the ring with. Do I know them? Sure, I see them all the time, but from an in-ring standpoint, I just know them the way everybody else knows them. I've never had my hands on them."
At the age of 41, Hunter says he wants to return as the guy in WWE, not just return for a nostalgia tour after a prolonged absence.
"If I can't do this the way I feel like I should be able to, then I want to be done. And I don't want to come back here and tarnish that. I don't want to do the nostalgia run where I come out and say I'm the greatest in the world," Hunter says.
"There was a time when I would have argued that I was the best in the business. When I don't feel like I can perform at that level, I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to be just a guy in the ring. I want to be the guy in the ring."
Hunter says he's returning not so much to be part of a title feud, but taking Shawn Michaels's and Undertaker's path of being a top star without needing a title.
WWE: How will your next run as a WWE Superstar differ from previous one?
Hunter: "In the past, my goal was just becoming WWE champion or World Hvt. champion. But, there's a certain time when you get beyond that. Shawn moved beyond that... I don't have to be contending for a championship. Undertaker doesn't have to be in contention. We've moved beyond needing a title to prove that we're the best. That's where I am now. (John) Cena will eventually be there."
Hunter also evaluates the state of the WWE locker room, saying there are "young guys" that "really don't know where they're going or how they're going to get there yet."
Hunter says he considers Undertaker and he as two of the last veterans left in the locker room, which is the opposite of when he broke into the business and there were "20 veterans and three green guys." Hunter adds: "Now, you walk into our locker room and there are 30 green guys and two veterans."
Also in the interview, Hunter talks about his first WWE Studios movie, "The Chaperone," which is due out February 18 as a "limited engagement" theatrical release, DX compared to Nexus, and Shawn Michaels having no intention of wrestling again.
The introduction to the story reads: "Triple H returns to a distinctly different WWE than the one he left in 2010. In his first WWE Magazine interview in three years, the King of Kings sizes up his latest competition, talks about starring in the new film, The Chaperone, reveals what Shawn Michaels has really been up to since WrestleMania, and explains when, if ever, he'll leave the ring for good."
source: pwtorch.com
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