Triple H Explains WWE Changes He Has Made Since Taking Over Creative

Triple H Explains WWE Changes He Has Made Since Taking Over Creative WWE

Triple H has explained his mindset behind making changes to the WWE product as the head of creative.

In case you’ve been living under a Dwayne Johnson, Triple H has been running the WWE creative division since late July, following Vince McMahon’s retirement announcement.

Speaking with Ariel Helwani for BT Sport, Triple H noted that he has taken Vince McMahon’s advice to book like he’s a fan. Discussing some recent changes, including wrestlers regaining their old ring names, Triple H said:

“I don’t look at anything and go, ‘I need to fix that.’ It’s just what works for me. That’s really where it’s at. I look at things a certain way. To me, if I want to have the Intercontinental Title mean something, I need to make it mean something.

“I am a big advocate of the past. Sometimes, when you lived in the past, you don’t see it the way other people do that were outside looking in on the past. When I look at some of that past stuff, I see it differently than anybody would, that maybe Vince would or anybody that was there.

“I saw performers of that generation differently than Pat (Patterson) saw them because I would see them and go, ‘Oh my God, that was amazing.’ Pat would go, ‘He’s an idiot.’ He knew them, knew the ins and outs, knew what they were like to work with. If you’re making ice cream, I’m just making the ice cream I like, and hopefully, everybody else likes that too.

“I approach this, and Vince is the one that taught it to me, ‘put yourself in the seats. If you put yourself in the seats and you’re just a fan and book it like a fan, you’ll never go wrong.’ That’s what I’m doing. It’s not a matter of ‘I need to change that, I need to fix this, this is wrong, I don’t like that, this was done wrong.’

“In the moments I’m going through this, I think to myself, ‘What seems right?’ You mention the Matt Riddle thing, we’re going into this moment in time where this is super real and they’re going to hit each other in this super real manner and these promos and get into it in a different way than we’ve traditionally done.

“He’s got a first name, it feels like we should give him that first name. If we’re going to hyper-real, we should go hyper-real and bring the reality in more and still…I 100% agree that being a WWE Superstar is more meaningful than being a pro wrestler.

“That will rub a lot of people wrong, but anybody can be a pro wrestler. There is a guy in front of five people at some place right now who is a pro wrestler. It’s like saying, ‘I’m a cage fighter.’

“I’ve been to a million gyms throughout my career and when MMA got big, every place you’d go to, you’d be working out and some guy would come up to you with a shaved head and tattoos, mostly tribal, and would say, ‘I’m a cage fighter.’

“The truth is, ‘Are you in the UFC?’ That’s sort of the standard bearer. I’m sure others get that. It’s not a knock, it’s just a different level. Anybody can play football, who plays in the NFL? It’s a different level. Anybody can wrestle. Who makes it as a WWE Superstar? It’s a different level.”

On September 3, WWE held its ‘Clash At The Castle’ premium live event in Cardiff, Wales, which was the first WWE UK stadium show since SummerSlam 1992.

In the post-show press conference, Triple H discussed his plans for expanding NXT, pitching a ‘World Cup type scenario‘.

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