Triple H: I’m the first guy to say something wasn’t good or ‘we screwed up there’
Since Vince McMahon stepped down from his position of power a few years ago, fans have seen his son-in-law, Triple H, step up to take the role of WWE’s Chief Content Officer.
Responsible for the show’s creative, Triple H, aka Paul Levesque, recently sat down for an interview with Joe Tessitore ahead of WWE WrestleMania 42. Addressing fans’ creative criticism and the impossible task of satisfying everyone, the Hall of Famer emphasized the trick of maintaining a balance.
“You know, it’s a funny thing when people will say like — you know, if you’re online or you hear fans talking and they’re like, ‘I didn’t like that.’ Yeah, I know. Believe me, I’m the first guy going, ‘That didn’t work. That wasn’t good. We screwed up there.’ Sometimes you’re putting things out there, you’re like, ‘Eh, this’ll be decent. This is not going to be A++.’ It has to ebb and flow throughout the year.
“There’s times when, you know, like, ‘This show will be good. It’s not going to be guns blazing.’ There’s times when you know you gotta’ put your foot on the gas,” Triple H stated.
Levesque further opened up about the concept of maintaining balance while performing creative duties. “The trick is keeping everybody else, I think sometimes, in the same mindset of — you know, we talked about thinking about tomorrow,” he shared.
“All the time, people make suggestions of like, ‘What if you did this, and this whole thing?’ And it’s like, ‘Yeah, that’s amazing, it just doesn’t leave us a place to go.’ So you have to balance out the ‘What do I do today that’s epic,’ and ‘What do I get to tomorrow?’ It’s always a mix and a challenge to balance that out.
“Nobody bats a thousand, I’m no different, right? But you want to try as best as possible to manage everybody to stay in the same ballpark so somebody’s not trying to swing for the fences while everybody else is trying to hit a double, you know?”
Levesque was named Chief Content Officer in September 2022, but he believes there was no clear moment when he actually took over.
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