Triple H Urged To Turn Major WWE Star Heel After Reaching A “Flatline”
This former WWE booker recently spoke about the status of WWE’s Triple H-led creative and gave his honest opinion.
WWE’s creative team has been criticized by a large portion of fans and analysts in recent years, especially after the company reached creative heights with WrestleMania 40 just a couple of years ago.
While WWE is thriving financially, despite slight bumps in ticket sales for this year’s WrestleMania compared to last year’s and a drop in viewership ratings, these drops aren’t significant enough to cause any financial trouble to the wrestling juggernaut.
Triple H, who is WWE’s CCO, has recently signed a new five-year deal, and WWE president Nick Khan even clapped back at criticisms levelled at WWE, saying it came from a minority online and defended Triple H’s work as the creative head.
A consensus of the criticism is a lack of stories, repetitive booking, and matches or results that don’t make sense, and a lack of continuity.
Chiming in on the matter is former WWE star and booker Eric Bischoff, the WCW veteran who famously played the Raw general manager in the early 2000s.
Eric Bischoff Says WWE Has Reached A Flatline And Urges Triple H To Make A Major Heel Turn
Speaking on 83 weeks, Bischoff was blunt and direct about his views regarding WWE’s current creative headed by Triple H.
WWE’s kind of reached a flatline. Flatline. I said it. That doesn’t mean it’s dead. That just means it’s kind of cruising along just doing the same old stuff every week.
It’s not good TV. Good TV grows.
Although Bischoff stated that the company is in no way doing badly financially, it was the quality of the product that Bischoff was referring to.
The conversation eventually focused on the current WWE Undisputed Champion, Cody Rhodes. Bischoff proposed that Cody turn heel, a sentiment that many fans and analysts have echoed, those who feel that Rhodes’ face run has gone on a tad too long.
I’d turn Cody heel.
Bischoff said that hitting the refresh button may be necessary to make the product engaging again, even though the business is doing well.
I need to hit the refresh button here. It’s great and all, but it’s been great and all for a long time. I need something that’s a little different in order to engage.
Business-wise, it’s great. Maybe there’s no reason to make any changes. But if the business is not what it once was and there’s an opportunity to light a new fire under it and create new business, I’d be all about it.
I’d love to see a different character out of Cody.
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