8 Things That Probably Led To Triple H's WWE Demotion

8. The Failure Of The Performance Center

The Performance Center, if not entirely unfit for purpose in theory, has thus far failed - quite drastically - to function effectively.

Constructed seven years ago to considerable expense as star-creation factory, it has failed to produce a single, difference-making megastar, despite the vast number and diverse backgrounds of the talent recruited to it, state-of-the-art facilities, and respected wrestling minds that staff it. In theory, it exists to create and or develop talent to ready them for the international stage; in reality, the excellent, critically-acclaimed acts that dominate TakeOver events developed their in-ring skills - and more significantly, their ability to connect with the audience - in the decidedly less glamorous confines of the American Legion Center, home to Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.

PWG, with no formal connection to WWE - and operated with a spirit almost antithetical to it - is nonetheless WWE's most successful feeder promotion beyond Ohio Valley Wrestling. The PC is essentially a gym to those talents, and a sort of stasis to the collegiate athletes, former football players and gymnasts who have rotted within its walls for years.

The lack of the personal touch, homogenised training, inability to supplement training with a true road test beyond the Largo loop, whatever: the Performance Center - Triple H's great vision for WWE's future - has not secured it.