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Official Confirmation On Who Has “Complete Control” Over WWE Creative; It’s Not Triple H

By Monika Thapa • Published Apr 21, 2026 06:34 EDT
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Triple H - Source: WWE.com

Triple H is the Chief Content Officer of WWE, and as the creative head of the company, he has been facing intense scrutiny for several controversial booking decisions.

From John Cena’s retirement to frequent last-minute changes in WrestleMania plans, fans have been blaming Hunter for the recent poor performance of the WWE product. However, Triple H may not be the one to blame, as he doesn’t have complete control over WWE creative.

TKO Has “Complete Control” Over WWE Creative, Not Triple H

On Reddit, South-Persimmon-5342 recently uploaded an audio of Mark Shapiro, president of TKO Group Holdings, telling a University of Alabama class that TKO has full control over WWE creative.

Therefore, all the backlash that Triple H has been receiving over the past few months was a result of TKO making decisions based on what they deemed was good for growth and profits. Shapiro also noted that ever since TKO took control over WWE, profits have increased exponentially, and the audience has grown threefold.

I’ll walk you through that. First of all, it has complete control, so we’re responsible. Fact or fiction. You didn’t hear about this stuff in the old days with WWE, and this man owned it because it was a private company for so many years. So they didn’t put out their financial results, if you will.

Nobody knew, they knew it was successful and the brand was strong and it had a legion of fans, but they didn’t really know the business work and what it was making, etc. Then Vince went public with WWE, and then TKO was formed with UFC and WWE coming together.

So those two companies came together and launched TKO, which is a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TKO. And now everything’s kind of out there. But what I would tell you is, WWE has grown in every way.

It’s grown in financial results, but more important, it’s grown in audience. It’s grown in social. It’s grown in stars. It’s grown in clicks, views, short-form video. I mean, it’s really exploded. And the reason for that is, it was really just on Peacock and USA. And now, since TKO, we did a new deal, which put RAW, our big Monday night show, on Netflix. We tripled our audience.

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