Hall Of Famer Defends Triple H Against WWE Creative Criticism
A WWE Hall of Famer doesn’t think most fans are that angry with Triple H running the company’s creative team.
There are some wrestling fans who will never be happy with how WWE is run creatively. Whether they miss Vince McMahon being in charge or they think that WWE Hall of Famer Paul “Triple H” Levesque isn’t doing enough as the WWE Chief Content Officer, it’s hard to please everybody.
One fan may want a certain wrestler to be pushed to a champion, while another fan may hate that wrestler and think they don’t deserve it. Cody Rhodes is an example of that as the Undisputed WWE Champion in his fourth year in a row as a WrestleMania main eventer. Meanwhile, some fans would rather see Drew McIntyre in that spot, or they want to see a guy like LA Knight given that same opportunity.
The job that Triple H has isn’t easy, especially when there are people predicting your demise on a regular basis.
Numbers Tell The Story In A Job Like What Triple H Has In WWE
Eric Bischoff knows what it takes to run a wrestling company since he was the President of WCW and also played a significant behind-the-scenes role in TNA. On his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff spoke about online WWE fans complaining about Triple H as the company’s creative boss, and how other WWE fans probably don’t care about it too much.
“I would say for internet wrestling fans, possibly. I think for WWE fans — the general audience — probably not. Because it is not what they think about.
The only people that think about and talk about that are people who are hardcore fans who kind of live in the Reddit, Internet Wrestling Community bubble and enjoy, they get their dopamine hit discussing things that they do not really understand but know enough about to feel like they do.”
As Bischoff explains it, fans are going to take data about WWE business, led by Triple H, and spin it to fit their own agenda.
“Whatever we see out there in the ether as a particular data point, people will embrace it to either affirm or confirm their bias, or use it to support their bias against something. It just is, it’s the nature of the community.”
Bischoff would go on to make the point that the wrestling business goes through cycles.
“I think business wise, not at all. I do not think there is any luster off at all. You are going to go through cycles. Some things are going to be more popular from a storyline perspective than other things.”