Why Triple H Has Golden Rule About Angry WWE Fans On The Internet
Triple H has explained why he isn’t bothered when WWE fans complain on the internet.
In his role as WWE’s Chief Content Officer, it is Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s job to run the creative team on the main roster while using the talent in the best way possible.
As a wrestler, there were times in Triple H’s career when he was one of the top heels in WWE, who had a long main event run that lasted over a decade.
There were times during that run where vocal fans on the internet hated Triple H, not just because he was a heel champion who was always around the WWE World Title scene, but because they knew he was Vince McMahon’s son-in-law. Because of that, many people thought that the push he received was perhaps more than it should have been.
To promote WrestleMania 41 and his WWE Hall of Fame induction, Triple H appeared on Andrew Schulz’s FLAGRANT podcast to explain why he’s not bothered by the angry fans on the internt.
“Here’s the beautiful thing about our world. The internet is not real life and the bitching and the complaining that is on there is not real life. You could read the internet and it’ll sound like this thing is dead.
I’ll use Cody [Rhodes] as the example, ‘Cody’s already jumped the shark, he’s dead as a babyface’. He goes ‘really? I don’t know, I’m in an arena with 10-15,000 people every night going ape s**t for me, selling the most merchandise’, but sure whatever you wanna say on the internet, that’s the golden rule — It’s just opinion of a few people.”
“We Have A Focus Group” – Triple H
As he continued, Triple H spoke about how WWE has a focus group because they listen to the fans in the arenas and stadiums that they perform in.
“The beautiful thing for our business, unlike a movie, a TV show, a book, or anything else, is that we have a focus group. You go out, you go up, and you do standup, right? You do your standup for a year before you do the TV special or whatever, a lot of times, right? Because you’re trying out….and you’re seeing what works and what doesn’t.
If you’re terrible at your job, you just do it the way you want to do it and it bombs. If you’re good at your job, you tweak things, you change things, make it seem fresh all the time, but you’re shifting along the way until you get to where it’s just right, and then you go put it out there, right?
As we begin to tell these stories, this is working, this is not working. And whether people are bitching online or the reaction of people live….. ‘Jey’s terrible?’ merch, the reaction in the crowd, everything he does, like, yeah, it’s just opinion of a few people.
So if a story piece bombs, you guys can get back and be like, all right, let’s just pivot and then we can save it. ‘Hey, that didn’t go the way I thought it was going to go, and they didn’t, they didn’t, they didn’t take that, or they didn’t react to that, or that didn’t click the way we thought it was going to. What if we do this instead?’ And you pivot and you move, right?”
In addition to his busy duties during WrestleMania 41 weekend in Las Vegas, Triple H will also be the headline act at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday, April 18th with his best friend Shawn Michaels as the man inducting him.