Former OVW Star Says Encounter With Triple H Got Him ‘Blackballed’ From WWE

OVW alumnus Jamin Olivencia recently recalled a conversation with Triple H years ago that he says got him “blackballed” from WWE. Olivencia was part of OVE from 2005 to 2014 and did extra work for WWE at that time. He made appearances for WWE all the way through to September of 2013, when he lost to Ryback in a squash match on WWE Smackdown.

Olivencia went into depth in an appearance on Limpin Ain’t Easy about how a conversation with Triple H went wrong. He noted that he had a conversation with Stephanie McMahon, who said she wanted to see a promo from him but never received it when he sent it over. She told him to talk to Triple H and when he did so the next day, Triple H seemed agitated and said he didn’t have time to talk, but Olivencia made his pitch. Olivencia was told later that he had to leave by security, who asked him if he had followed Triple H into the bathroom.

You can check out the highlights from Olivencia’s story below (per Fightful):

On Talking With Stephanie:

“There was a time when I was by a monitor and Stephanie McMahon just so happened to be next to me, and her and I just started talking and I told her I was an OVW guy, and then she told me, ‘I like the way you speak’ or something like that. She said, ‘Would you cut a promo and have it sent to me?’ At the time, Brooklyn Brawler was the promo guy. I went into the promo room and I said, ‘Hey. Stephanie McMahon said she wanted to see a promo of me’ and he kind of gave me a look like, uh, Stephanie said that? I was like, ‘Yeah.’ He was like, ‘Alright, I’ll do it.’

“So I cut some promos; terrible, I think. If I remember correctly, it was terrible. But it was the next week, because I was going up every single week getting opportunities, and she just so happened to run into me and she said, ‘I never got that promo.’ She just said, ‘Go talk to Hunter one of these days. Maybe he could set you up on a meeting,’ and I said, ‘OK.’”

On Talking With Triple H:

“So, I saw Hunter one time and I said, ‘Hey. Is there an opportunity where we could talk today?’ He goes, ‘I don’t have time today.’ I said, ‘OK.’ Let it go, and then that was Raw and then there was a SmackDown; it was the next day. I saw him in the hallway. He was talking to Kofi Kingston. You know how you’re standing around waiting like a kid? It’s my turn coming up. So, he gets done talking to Kofi and then I start walking with him and talking, and I said, ‘Hey Hunter. Is there any opportunity where we could get to talk? I think I’d be great for kids; I think I could be marketable.’ And he says, ‘I don’t have time today.’

“He seemed a bit agitated, and I said, ‘Well, I really think if I was given the opportunity, I could do well’ and in my mind, in the moment, I thought I was grabbing the brass ring, and I thought I was showing initiative. And it ended up backfiring on me where he said, ‘Alright, alright. Listen, talk to my assistant’ — it was Canyon [Ceman] at the time. I talked to Canyon. ‘He’s my guy,’ and he shook my hand, and when he shook my hand, he goes [makes an annoyed face] and then walked away. Like a real sarcastic face, and I was like, ‘Ugh, that can’t be good.’

On Being Told To Leave:

“So then I went into catering, I’m talking to a few guys at the table. Security comes to me like 15 minutes later. They say, ‘Is your name Jamin?’ I said, ‘Yeah, my name’s Jamin.’ They said, ‘Alright, you’re not on the list. You have to leave.’ And one of the guys stood up for me and said, ‘No, no, no, he’s here with us. He’s been coming here’ and the guy goes, ‘Well, let me ask you a question! Did you follow Triple H into a bathroom and ask him for a job?’ And I said, ‘I did not do that. I saw him in the hallway. I was walking with him and I told him the situation.’ I basically explained that I knew he was uncomfortable. I knew I upset him, and the guy just said, ‘Ah, well, he doesn’t want you here and you’re probably never gonna be allowed back again.’

“I thought it was a rib maybe at first. So I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’ He’s like, ‘Alright, so, you gotta come walk with us and we gotta grab your bag and we’re gonna walk you out of the arena.’ They walked me out in front of all these people coming into the arena and they said, ‘Alright, take care. Good luck.’”

On People Believing He Followed Triple H Into the Bathroom:

“And you know what was really embarrassing? Because as I’m walking with one of the security guards out, he’s like, ‘Why would you do that? Why would you follow him to a bathroom?’ I was like, ‘I didn’t follow him in the bathroom.’ There was people at WWE who were big fans of me and they supported me and they called me and they all work for Hunter and they’re like, ‘Why did you follow Hunter into a bathroom?’

“So this became the narrative. And I was like, ‘I didn’t follow him into a bathroom,’ and I just was crumbling. It was so shocking that I could have swore it was a rib. And I drove home, upset, didn’t know what to do.”

On Being Invited Back Five Years Later:

“After five years, I get a call from Canyon saying, ‘Hey, would you like to come up to Raw?’ And I said, ‘Sure.’ And so I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God, it must have got erased…’ Then I come up again. I drive from Louisville in a snowstorm, all the way to Cleveland, Ohio. It’s like a six-hour drive or something. Took me longer to get there because there was so much snow, and I’m there for the whole day and everyone’s hugging me, and seeing me./ And they’re like, ‘Oh! Dude, it’s so good to see you…’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I feel home.’

On Being Asked To Leave From There:

“When I walked in the building, I was like, ‘Eh, something doesn’t feel right. Something just doesn’t feel right.’ And I was there for the whole day. I think I’d seen Road Dogg at some point, and he was like, ‘Yeah, maybe we can give you a dark or some type of match tomorrow’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, hell yeah.’ We were talking about Smackdown at the time. So I’m thinking everything’s just dandy, no problem.

“And next thing I know, one of the referees is like, ‘Hey, Jamin, come here for a second.’ The minute he said that, I was like, ‘Oh no.’ I already knew, and he’s like, ‘Hey, look, so you’re not supposed to be here I guess. I guess you’re like blackballed.’ I think at the time, Mark Carrano was the — they’re like, ‘Yeah, Mark says you’re not supposed here and sorry man. And also, we’re not gonna be able to pay you for coming here.’ And I was like, ‘Please pay me at least for today, because I drove up.’ Yeah, so long story short, I got kicked out again and then the security guard — the same exact security guard — I forget his name… same exact dude. He’s like, ‘Man, why did you come back again? You know you’re not supposed to be here.’ I said, ‘I was asked to be here. I don’t know.’”

On Learning From the Experience:

“It just seemed like it was the perfect thing… It just didn’t work out, which ended up being one of the best things for me, because building my business and I think working with people in a completely different arena taught me a lot about myself. And I can always look at that experience with Hunter and take full responsibility that I put myself in that position. I’m the one that was aggressive. Because in the beginning, it was like, ‘Ah, screw this guy. F**k that guy. I can’t believe he would do that,’ you know? But the reality was no, this guy’s super f**king busy. I didn’t have the foresight or the understanding, at 28 at the time, to realize that. I was being aggressive and you know my energy. It can be very strong sometimes. So I’m sure that it was extra annoying for him to deal with what I was trying to present. So, I think somewhere in the midst of it all, I healed myself by taking accountability instead of blaming.”