“It Looked Like A Hostage Video” – Triple H’s Power In WWE Questioned

Triple H is allegedly not in complete control of the creative process in WWE.

The Game has been Chief Content Officer for almost four years now. However, he has recently faced significant criticism over his booking decisions.

In an interview with Ariel Helwani, former WWE star Killer Kross (formerly known as Karrion Kross) dropped a bombshell, claiming that Triple H may not be the sole decision maker when it comes to creative. The former NXT Champion noted that he based his opinion on pattern recognition.

If I had to guess, I would say that there are people who call things in, and he has to make the best of what they want to play out on television and the PLEs. That’s just my guess. I base that on pattern recognition. That’s a thing that has become very prevalent, especially with Gen Z – when it comes to entertainment, if you’re creating something episodic with continuity, when continuity fails, there’s a red light that goes off, people go, ‘What happened here?’ Especially with wrestling,”

Now that there’s new players involved, when there’s a failure of continuity and people don’t like it, it removes people from the suspension of disbelief, that entertainment. I don’t think that’s him. He has his own patterns that I think were aligned with what the audience wanted to see, and that’s speaking as a person who used to work for him. And I knew when he could call all of his shots, and I had an idea of when he couldn’t. To me, this looks like a situation where he can’t call all of the shots. And I don’t mean that disrespectfully at all.

Ex-WWE Star Stevie Richards Claims Triple H Is TKO Executives’ “Puppet”

On a recent episode of The Stevie Richards Show, the former Hardcore Champion addressed Killer Kross’ comments regarding Triple H’s situation in WWE.

The wrestling veteran referenced the scene from WWE Unreal in which Triple H appeared to shoot down Road Dogg’s ideas, arguing that The Game’s comments did not sound like his own.

Instead, Richards suggested the Chief Content Officer, along with Michael Hayes and Bruce Prichard, appeared to be repeating a message they had received from a TKO executive.

When we look at it with these comments now, not so much in a vacuum, but that episode of Unreal that famously or infamously Road Dogg was just exasperated, it might have been the beginning of the end right there, you know, of him leaving. It felt like Hunter, and even Bruce to some point or anybody in that meeting, especially when Hunter said stuff, Michael Hayes, too. It felt like it wasn’t their own words.

Like, you’re talking about pattern recognition. The way Hunter, it almost felt like they were muted, they were, you know, puppets. The puppeteers had hid their hands up their b*tts and they were talking and repeating some corporate speak about somebody at TKO that felt a certain way about Chelsea Green and Alexa Bliss. Coud you see that? It didn’t feel like a natural opinion that was given. It felt like this was, it looked like a hostage video. Everybody looked like they were being taken hostage. [2:17 onwards]

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