Triple H’s Rise To Power Behind Jeff Jarrett’s WWE Exit
AEW star Jeff Jarrett has admitted someone else being more of a Triple H guy than he was led to him leaving WWE in 2022.
The power struggles that went on throughout 2022 and 2023 at the very top level of WWE left plenty of collateral damage. After Triple H’s serious medical issues in 2021, Vince McMahon took an iron grip on NXT and cleared many of his son-in-law’s key lieutenants out in early 2022 as William Regal, Road Dogg, and Samoa Joe all were released.
The summer of 2022 saw Vince McMahon briefly announce his retirement as rumours of sexual abuse against a former WWE employee and hush money payments came to light. Triple H was back in charge and he started making changes of his own. Jeff Jarrett was released from his role in the company and he knows that it was Vince McMahon’s demise that also led to his own.
Jeff Jarrett Not As Much Of A Triple H Guy As Road Dogg
Speaking on his My World Podcast, Jeff Jarrett admitted that it was the change of regime that led to him being let go only to be replaced by his long-time friend and former partner Road Dogg Brian James, someone he thinks is more of a Triple H guy than he is:
I mean, the short answer would be, it would have to be yes. To be clear here, there is a funny story about this in that Brian, I can’t say, took my position, but Brian was put in the exact same job I had. Best buds, him replacing me. I always kind of thought that was fascinating, but the optics obviously appear and more to be unfolded that I’m not aware of, I think, in the months and years to come.
But it’s pretty obvious that Vince brought me back not once but twice, three times, four times, or three times over that time frame. So I think the most simplistic bill of answer would be, ‘Brian was more of a Triple H guy,’ but I’ve never had a cross word with Hunter in my life. Always business, always cordial.
As a matter of fact, when I came back the first time, as far as the Royal Rumble, he was the one who gave me the call. So, to be in the Royal Rumble, because the Hall of Fame was 2018, 2019, the Rumble. Hunter’s the one who called me there. So I can’t say I’m not a Triple H guy, but I think Brian is more of a Triple H guy.
Road Dogg has since been promoted in WWE to a new role that sees him taking more of a grip on SmackDown.