MVP also suggested that the closure of The Hurt Business had racial overtones. One comment pointed to an infamous promo exchange between Triple H and Booker T in the 2000s, in which Triple H told the challenger that people like him couldn’t be champion and that he was only there to make fun of people like him. Whether it was meant to be racist is up for debate, but many took the promo, especially the latter part, as a reference to minstrel shows. MVP agreed with the reference, and further stated, “You get it,” when a user said, “The Triple H era is undermining black men.”
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The Hurt Business debuted on “RAW” a few months before Roman Reigns’ return as “Tribal Chief” in 2020, and Reigns’ Bloodline gained momentum with the addition of Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso in 2021. Bloodline became WWE’s only super stable, with MVP coming to terms with the idea that the Hurt Business gimmick was exploited by the Samoan Dynasty.
Among those who left comments was MVP’s fellow WWE veteran Batista. “They wasted a ton of money on that. It’s embarrassing,” he wrote, to which MVP responded, “And there was never an explanation why.” MVP rarely appears on WWE television with Omos, in contrast to the Vince McMahon era. In his absence, he has been open about his previous creative proposals for The Hurt Business, most recently revealing that he initially wanted Ricochet and Alexander in the group.
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