Summary

Paul "Triple H" Levesque said Bam Bam Bigelow once came up during a WWF roster meeting where Vince McMahon asked who should stay and who should go.

Speaking on Cody Rhodes' *What Do You Wanna Talk About?* podcast, Levesque described a meeting in Indianapolis where names were reviewed one by one. He said Bigelow disliked The Kliq, but the group still backed keeping him because of how highly they rated him as a performer.

Quote from Triple H

"There was a moment where a bunch of us were in a room and Vince (McMahon) was there — famous meeting — Indianapolis — and Vince took out a roster and was like, ‘Who leaves? Who stays?’ And this is a point in time when I was kind of new-ish, right? I didn’t feel qualified to even be making that thing. But, I remember there was some people on there that their names came up. I remember one in particular and it’s Bam Bam Bigelow. Bam Bam hated The Kliq. I don’t know that anybody had an issue with him per se but he just, for whatever reason, he hated — and his name came up, and we had all written down our stuff on paper and given ‘em to Vince and he’s like, ‘Hmm, you guys all unanimously want him here.’ We’re like, ‘Yeah, he’s f*cking really good.’ ‘Yeah, but he hates you guys.’ ‘So what? I want him on my team.’ I want him on the team. Because it’s not about he don’t like us… He’s f*cking good. So he should be here. There’s some other guys on there that we like a lot. I like him as a person. I like him as a person but, come or go, doesn’t matter. Those are tough decisions to make…"

Bigelow's place in the story

Bigelow had two runs with WWF/E, first in the late 1980s and later in the mid-1990s. Levesque's recollection framed him as someone whose value in the ring outweighed any personal friction behind the scenes.

After that second WWF run ended, Bigelow moved on to ECW and later returned to WCW.

What the Vince McMahon story says about that era

Levesque's account paints those WWF roster calls as blunt talent evaluations, and Bigelow coming through that vote says plenty about how respected he was inside the locker room. It also adds another layer to the way Levesque has discussed McMahon's decision-making in past eras, including when he described Vince McMahon as still influencing WWE creative before WrestleMania 40.

For longtime fans, the takeaway is simple: even in a political locker room, Bigelow's work was strong enough that the people he reportedly clashed with still wanted him kept around.

Sources

As reported by Fightful.