Ex-WWE Star On Triple H Amid Major Criticism: “He Can’t Call All Of The Shots”
Triple H is often at the center of criticism because of his role as WWE’s Chief Content Officer and the face of the creative division.
If the WWE Universe does not like a booking decision, match, or storyline, Triple H is usually the one who faces the backlash. However, former WWE star Karrion Kross believes that not all bad creative decisions are Triple H’s fault.
Triple H Not to Blame for Every WWE Creative Decision, Says Former Star
While speaking to Ariel Helwani in a recent interview, Kross, who was released in 2025, stated that ever since new players got involved with WWE, Triple H may have lost complete control over the creative process. He is still the creative head, but not the ultimate decision maker in WWE creative.
By “new players,” Kross could be referring to TKO.
“If I had to guess, I would say that there are people who call things in, and he has to make the best of what they want to play out on television and the PLEs. That’s just my guess. I base that on pattern recognition. That’s a thing that has become very prevalent, especially with Gen Z – when it comes to entertainment, if you’re creating something episodic with continuity, when continuity fails, there’s a red light that goes off, people go, ‘What happened here?’ Especially with wrestling,”
“Now that there’s new players involved, when there’s a failure of continuity and people don’t like it, it removes people from the suspension of disbelief, that entertainment. I don’t think that’s him. He has his own patterns that I think were aligned with what the audience wanted to see, and that’s speaking as a person who used to work for him. And I knew when he could call all of his shots, and I had an idea of when he couldn’t. To me, this looks like a situation where he can’t call all of the shots. And I don’t mean that disrespectfully at all.”
Following his departure from WWE, Karrion Kross joined the independent circuit, where he wrestles under the ring name Killer Kross.