WM22's original masterminds:Eddie Guerrero vs Shawn Michaels,Vince vs Brett Hart

On this week's edition of The Court Bauer & John Pollock Show, Bauer shared his thoughts on the passing of Eddie Guerrero in 2005 when he was still with the WWE and plans the company had for the following year's WrestleMania 22 event from Chicago. 

Original WrestleMania 22 plans for Eddie Guerrero: "It was 24 hours before he passed away, I believe. 24 hours, 48 hours, something like that. We had a call with Vince at home, and we were talking about the preliminary plans for WrestleMania. I know there's this romanticized story about how Eddie was going to get the title, and that was the plan that he was going to get it that night or at Survivor Series. That wasn't the plan. I think Stephanie said that, or alluded to it on the air, and that was not the plan. The plan was that he would lose, and I think they were going to return in December. We had talked about a fascinating idea; I'm not the biggest Bruce Pritchard fan, but to his credit, I believe it was Bruce Prichard who pitched putting Eddie Guerrero at WrestleMania against Shawn Michaels and doing the parallels of their careers. Being the heartthrob in Mexico and this mercurial figure south of the border, and the American version being HBK. They had never really worked, and you would've had such a great dynamic between the two with heel Eddie versus Shawn. That'd be your 'tear the house down,' high quality match at WrestleMania 22 in Chicago. Vince was like, 'God damn, that's really appealing. We could parallel their careers. What kind of footage of Eddie do we have outside of WCW? We could really do some impressive packages.'"

The plan for Bret Hart vs. Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 22: "We talked a lot of matches, and the other match at WrestleMania 22 was going to be Vince versus Bret in a street fight, that they would do in a convoluted manner several WrestleManias forward. Bret had just come back into the company in a very informal way. He had just agreed to do the home video release. (Vince) literally, on that call, got Bret on the other line and pitched him doing the match.

Bret was uneasy, but was thinking he could possibly do it as long as there were no hits to his head. We're sitting here like, 'Holy sh*t, we didn't think we'd be talking about a Bret/Vince match!' Vince pitched that match and said, 'What do you guys think?' Everyone was like, 'Yeah, no sh*it! Of course! Bret versus Vince, yes! That's huge.'

A week or two later, Vince said that match was no longer an option. I think it had to do with something on Bret's end."

WWE stars offended by Triple H's hypocrisy :

On the past  Raw during the contact signing for the WWE Championship Match between Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton at Hell in a Cell, Triple H offended WWE Superstars and fans alike with his verbal burial of the talents of Bryan, as well as Chris Jericho, Edge and Rob Van Dam. WWE's Chief Operating Officer grouped Bryan with his three predecessors and declared that like them, he is not capable of being "The Face of WWE."
"Here's the thing, Daniel. I've seen guys like you come and go a million times. Guys like Jericho, Edge, Rob Van Dam. All guys that are very talented, don't get me wrong. Top guys! Very popular! But not "the one." Never were they "the one." And maybe nobody wants to say this, but it needs to be said: It's a fact. If any of those guys had been the face of the WWE back in the day, we'd all be working for Ted Turner right now," said Hunter.

"You think you're playing in the big leagues, kid? You have no idea. You step inside that Hell in a Cell and I have a feeling you're gonna prove to the world that you're a B+ player."

Bryan subsequently challenged Triple H to a match. "The Game" responded by saying he's a "A+ player" and "a star" who only faces the likes of The Undertaker, The Rock and Brock Lesnar.

As reported the following day, the Chief Operating Officer's controversial remarks had a lot of people shaking their heads backstage since they feel he was burying Bryan as a performer rather than knocking him in a villainous manner that would lead to Bryan gaining retribution. Meanwhile, Dave Meltzer revealed on Wrestling Observer Radio (audio available here) on Wednesday that Jericho, Edge and Van Dam were not given notice to the angle ahead of time.

Following Raw, Jericho went on Twitter to respond to Triple H: "Thing is @tripleh despite ur major push,u never were either. Good luck in ur future endeavours."

Later that day, Jericho downplayed his reaction to Triple H. Responding to a tweet that labeled what Hunter said as "completely untrue and unfair," Jericho wrote, "No big deal. Always nice to be mentioned on Raw."

Meltzer speculated that Jericho was legitimately upset with Hunter's remarks. He added, "I can tell you with 100% certainty with the Jericho situation, that it was not an angle."

Meltzer garnered reaction from some WWE talent on the controversial promo, many of whom felt it was counter-productive. They also felt that Hunter's dismissive remarks are legitimate gripes.

"As far as the talent in the dressing room—the reaction that I got from a couple of people, was basically that they all thought that the interview was counter-productive," said Meltzer. "They all felt that Triple H, while he will say "well, I was only working," those were his true thoughts on those guys, and it didn't make people very happy overall."