Triple H Enjoys Collaboration For WWE Creative Process
Triple H provided some insight into how he helps weave WWE storylines while collaborating with the team around him.
As the WWE Chief Content Officer, Paul “Triple H” Levesque is in the role as the man in charge of the creative process in all of WWE. In pro wrestling terms, that means Triple H is the “booker” of the main roster meaning he is the one who decides what happens on Raw, SmackDown, and the PLE events.
The ending of the WWE Elimination Chamber PLE has gotten the wrestling world and beyond talking about the shocking turn of events that saw John Cena turn heel on his fans doing a cheap attack on the Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. Cena aligned himself with The Rock and Travis Scott on the road to Cena’s WWE Title match against Rhodes at WrestleMania 41.
While speaking at the WWE Elimination Chamber post-show, Triple H said that what happens on screen isn’t just coming from him because it’s a collaborative process that includes the team that surrounds him.
“Like everything we do, I’m a really big proponent of collaboration. I want all the ideas. I want to throw them all out on the table. I want us to look at all of them and then begin to have conversations around, ‘What is the best thing?’ Then start to think of, ‘Out of those things, how can we tear those up, blow them up and go in a completely different direction that nobody will see.’
It’s hard sometimes to think of things nobody sees because nobody sees it. That includes you, when you’re doing it. At some point in time, little germs of ideas come in and ‘What if? What if?’ And it just begins to percolate. I’m fortunate in this timeframe that I have some of the great minds to work with.
Dwayne (The Rock) and I have been working together for almost 30 years in some manner here. He’s always been an epic storyteller and an epic guy to get outside of the box and let’s do something different. How can we blow this up and change expectations? How can we make this something that no one has ever seen before? It’s really easy to go, ‘I saw this once. Let’s do this angle or that.’ That’s easy.”
Triple H: “Half Of The Things That Are Spoilers And Leak Are Wrong”
As he continued to talk about the creative process, Triple H explained how he filters the ideas of the team around him and tries to do things that fans don’t see coming.
“Going into uncharted waters and trying things out that have never been done before or done in a different way, things that people won’t see coming, that’s a lot different and more challenging. You need everybody’s ideas and thought processes. It starts with a bunch of people coming up with great ideas to try to entertain our fans and lead them in a direction and jerk them into another direction when they don’t see it coming, if we can do that.”
Regarding leaks of news, the WWE Hall of Famer claims that a lot of that is wrong.
“People are pretty savvy, so they are tuned in to a lot of stuff we do and they sense things coming and it’s why we get so upset when we see spoilers and things leak. Believe me, half of the things that are spoilers and leak are wrong, but when you do get the ones that are out there, it drives you nuts.”
At the same press conference, Triple H claimed that none of the spots of WrestleMania matches are locked in regarding what could main event the shows.