Triple H thinks people take WWE ‘too seriously’ sometimes
Paul “Triple H” Levesque believes that, at its core as an entertainment product, WWE should be about having fun.
At the end of his interview on The Stephen A. Smith Show, Levesque was asked to send a message to fans regarding the WWE product and what it intends to be. He responded by hyping that WWE has something for everyone, and he invited viewers to jump back in if they haven’t been keeping up with things lately.
“I think that we bring an event to you that is always going to be exciting, that is always going to surprise and delight you. And we bring a little bit of something for everybody,” Levesque said. “So there’s the entertainment component of a Danhausen. There is the serious component of a Brock Lesnar and a Roman Reigns and a Cody Rhodes, a Rhea Ripley and a Becky Lynch and Jade Cargill, where there’s that serious nature of it. But the storylines keep you hooked. And if you haven’t watched in a bit, always tune in, because the one thing about WWE is the story never ends.
“So when you come to the end of the Knicks winning the big game in our world, the next night it starts over again. And there’s always fresh, there’s always new, there’s always something big happening. So even if you’ve missed out for a bit, you can jump right back in, be a part of those stories and be a part of those epic moments. So there’s something for everybody, and that’s our goal. That’s what we try to do, is be a little bit of something for everybody.”
Fans taking things “too seriously” —
Levesque continued by saying that he thinks people sometimes take things too seriously and lose perspective on what WWE is supposed to be. With so much going on in the world, Levesque wants WWE to be a place where fans can immerse themselves in the storylines for a couple of hours and have a good time.
“The other aspect of that is, I think that people lose perspective of sometimes, is we’re just fun. We’re fun,” he said. “And sometimes people take it too seriously, sometimes people get too caught up in it. But it’s there to entertain, man. There’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. If you just want to turn off for a couple of hours and tune into something cool that you can just lose yourself in and have a good time, WWE is the place to do it. And if you’ve never seen it live, I’m telling you, come to a live event, come to one of our PLEs, come to a TV, there’s nothing like it in entertainment.”
Levesque’s appearance on The Stephen A. Smith show was to promote WWE Night of Champions 2026, which is taking place in Saudi Arabia this Saturday. The PLE airs on the ESPN Unlimited app in the United States and on Netflix internationally, with the first hour also being simulcast on ESPN’s main TV channel. Oba Femi vs. Jey Uso in the King of the Ring finals and IYO SKY vs. Liv Morgan in the Queen of the Ring finals are both set for hour one.
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