Mike Bennett has found his love for professional wrestling once again. The Miracle recently challenged for the NWA World Championship, and though he didn’t win the belt, put on one of the better matches of his career.
During an appearance on The Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast,  Mike Bennett spoke about his wife Maria, upcoming matches for this year, the bad creative he saw in WWE, and more. When the topic of Vince McMahon came up, more so who his successor would be, Bennett pointed to Triple H.
“I mean I really liked my short stint at doing NXT live events and stuff. Triple H, he feels like he is headed in the right direction. He feels like he understands the talent. Like with Vince, it feels like he has no idea what we’ve done before. He has no idea what anyone’s done outside of WWE. With Triple H, I always felt like he knew exactly what we were capable of because he watched us.”
“He’s seen the stuff that guys had done in Ring of Honor, or IMPACT, or New Japan, or NOAH or wherever. SO he knows what guys are capable of. Again, I don’t know because I didn’t work under him that long to really get like a grasp but besides him, there’s no one else because they all just report to Vince.”
Mike Bennett also defended the writing staff in WWE, stating that it’s hard to get a good story going when McMahon outright rejects it.
He followed up on the Triple H comments, later on, confirming that he wished he’d gone to NXT, even though they would’ve paid him less than he would’ve had at IMPACT.
“In retrospect, I would have preferred to go to NXT just because I like dealing with Triple H so much more. Triple H, I always felt like I could talk to Triple H man-to-man. I always felt like when I talked to Vince, he just told me what I wanted to hear so I could get out of his office.”
“Like with Triple H, I could be brutally honest and I would say things to him, and I felt like I could be like, ‘this is why I’m upset. Let me tell you. Talk to me like a man. Let’s see what we can do from there,’ and I always appreciated that relationship.”
Bennett had recently revealed that he’d nearly retired from the wrestling world after his WWE release.
