Former WWE announcer Kevin Kelly is taking credit for the infamous drive-thru wedding segment between Triple H and Stephanie McMahon from WWE television.
According to Kelly, who currently serves as the play-by-play commentator for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), it was he and his wife who came up with the concept for the drive-thru wedding in Las Vegas, Nevada for Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
Featured below is an excerpt from The Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast where Kevin Kelly talks about the origins of the idea.
I’m responsible for the relationship between Triple H and Stephanie. That’s what I’m responsible for, because I came up with the idea along with my wife. My wife is partly responsible. We’re both big soap opera fans and so the idea of Triple H bamboozling Test [Andrew Martin] and marrying Stephanie to screw over Test and also to piss off his future father-in-law is soap opera 101 and again, the similarities between the two with their hair down would be easy to do so I wrote this whole big thing up and sent it in. Vince [McMahon] copied everybody like I’m supposed to and Vince was the first one to write back all in caps, ‘That’s great sh*t.’ It’s like wow and then Shane McMahon came down the hall and poked his head in my door and said, ‘Dude, that idea is crazy. I love it’ and then end up changing it how they needed to and that’s what it was so it was pretty cool to see. It’s cool when you see an idea that you have come to life. I of course wrote the end where Stephanie winds up leaving Triple H but also leaving her father and becoming this strong, standalone woman. They wound up falling in love and have children and have been married ever since so they didn’t follow the script as it were. They wrote their own ending, a happy ending I’m sure.
Check out the complete Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast interview with Kevin Kelly at Podomatic.com.
