Triple H Blasted Over Booking Of Major WWE Star: “Is Something Fishy Here?”
Oba Femi was supposed to chase the World Championship, but Triple H swerved him in another direction.
The Ruler won the 2026 King of the Ring tournament and was expected to challenge Roman Reigns for the World Heavyweight Championship. However, WWE took him in a different direction, and instead, he challenged Brock Lesnar for SummerSlam on last week’s RAW.
Veteran Jim Cornette Calls Out WWE’s “Lazy Booking” of Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar
On the latest episode of his Drive Thru podcast, Jim Cornette criticized Triple H’s booking of Brock Lesnar and Oba Femi, arguing that the storyline ignored previous setup and felt inconsistent and lazily put together:
“Well, we got a lot of our questions answered, Brian, on this episode of Raw because we were questioning, well, wait a minute, Oba, what champion is he going to challenge? Because how did Brock figure into this? And where the f*** is this guy going? And they answered all our questions. They just came out and said, ‘We’re just going to book the s*** we want to book regardless of what we’ve f**ing said before.’ And now Oba is not going to challenge for a title because he’s going to fight Brock again. And Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins because they’ve been mad at each other for 14 years have finally decided this is the time they’re going to settle it. Did—this is confusing or is it just me?”
“Well, why don’t we do them one at a time? It’s not just you with the Brock and Oba thing. And obviously you’ll break it down, but you know, I like them being involved and everything, but the way this was set up, even if you get past the idea of, okay, they just decided we’ll book whatever we want and just get to where we wanted to go anyway. The way this was done just seemed lazy. I mean, maybe it’s just me. It just there had to be a better way to set up this match at SummerSlam than what they did on this show.”
He also questioned whether WWE is making up the storyline as it goes, suggesting that something may be happening behind the scenes:
“So they just… okay, we’ll just do this now instead. I… I… I think it’s, as you maybe mentioned, lazy, lazy booking. But also it’s just—they don’t normally… this s*** for the WWE is supposed to make sense. This has been all over the place and I think they’re making it up kind of as they go along. Do you agree with me about Brock? Is something fishy here?”