8 Ups & 6 Downs From Triple H's WWE (So Far)
1. The Comebacks
Not all of them have gone badly, but the ones that have have tanked, and the novelty of having certain people back around has worn off so quickly that Triple H has found himself accused of the same pop-chasing problem Tony Khan had during his own 2021/22 hiring spree.
It's fair to say that WWE had thinned out its numbers way too aggressively in sweeping releases between 2020 and this year's post-WrestleMania cuts, but Nick Khan's spreadsheet massaging wasn't just about widening the margins between the nominal losses and enormous gains. The roster was bloated thanks to aggressive warehousing of talent in 2018 and 2019 as New Japan Pro Wrestling and later All Elite Wrestling made clear gains in markets that had been sewn up by a monopoly for nearly two decades.
All of this is to say there's a right and a wrong way to do everything in wrestling, and when even Paul Levesque's booking is making it look like the return of Hit Row was a mistake, it's safe to suggest a little more caution should have been exerted...