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Triple H Explains Controversial Comments About WWE Fan Opinions

By John Canton • Published 18th April 2025
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Triple H has gone into more detail about the recent comments he made about wanting WWE viewers to be fans, not critics.

There have been several lengthy interview with WWE’s Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque because not only is he ready to lead the way for WrestleMania 41, but he’s also going to be the headline act at the 2025 Hall of Fame ceremony on April 18th.

While talking about his role as WWE’s boss, Triple H made comments in an interview with Peter Rosenberg on WWE’s YouTube channel where he spoke about how pro wrestling can be ruined by spoilers and too much info about what goes on backstage.

“This will sound defensive, every critic that is out there. I wish I could tell people f**k off being a critic. Be a fan. Go watch this and be a fan.

If I tell you go to the movies and watch this movie, I saw it it was really good, then just go to the movie as a fan. You watch the movie, you have one opinion. If I tell you, ‘Hey, go see this movie, but can you give me a one-page detail, what you liked, what you didn’t like, and if it worked for you or didn’t work for you,’ You watch it totally differently. You watch the product totally differently. It ruins it for people.”

Triple H went on talk about how things were better when surprises weren’t ruined and fans could just enjoy what they were watching.

“The world was so much better when nobody knew and you just watched it. They try to ruin the surprise, and I get it, that’s their business, and they try to tell you the s**t that’s going on, it just ruins it for people. The business that feeds you, you’re now ruining it for people and lessening their enjoyment of it to a large degree, because you’re telling them all this s**t, right or wrong, that is going to happen.”

Triple H Doesn’t Want People To Ruin The Experience For WWE Fans

During his appearance on The Pat McAfee Show during the morning of tonight’s SmackDown and his WWE Hall of Fame induction, Triple H was asked about his “be a fan, not a critic” and he explained what he meant by the comments.

“If I tell you that I saw a movie and I thought it was great and you should go see it. You just go see it, you’re a fan, you go watch it, you like it or you didn’t, whatever. If I say, ‘Go watch that movie, give me a report on it, tell me all the things that worked and all the things that didn’t,’ you go watch that movie differently. That’s my point.

At some point, you loved this. You loved it more than anything and you grew up watching it and you’re invested and you went as a fan and for some reason you got into being a critic or someone asked you to be a critic and now you’re hypercritical. To me, that ruins the experience for people.

I don’t want to go watch a movie or anything else and just criticize everything I see. I just want to go see if I enjoy the movie. People will criticize this. I don’t put a lot of stock into what is on the internet unless it follows through to other things we do. When Jey Uso won the Rumble, there were a lot of people that had their thoughts, opinions, and comments on that, which is all they are at the end of the day. There are 15,000 people in a venue and it’s been sold out all the time, yeeting and going absolutely crazy when he comes out.

Who do we listen to? The few people or the large crowd. We have a focus group every single night of a lot of people who are, in that moment, fans. Not being critics, not being anything else.

People are allowed to love what they love and dislike what they dislike, and their opinions are their opinions, but you cannot base things on the opinion of some when the majority feels differently. When the majority starts to feel it, that’s when you gotta listen.”

As part of his WWE Hall of Fame induction, a statue was made of Triple H that was put on display at WWE World.

In a video posted on X, Triple H was shown visiting the statue and he even did the signature “point” pose with this statue.