Why Triple H May Not Take Over WWE From Vince McMahon
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Whether as COO outright, or more likely whatever corporate title they devise for "booker" under a new management structure, Triple H will one day succeed Vince McMahon with full authorial control of WWE's creative product(s).
At least, that's the plan. Or was, past tense.
Since 2011, Triple H has crafted the first phase(s) of a very long-term business continuity plan. For some number of years, it was such a phenomenal and life-affirming vision for the future that the most loathed presence in the history of professional wrestling turned babyface. That is no exaggeration; Triple H with his slow, insufferable matches, and his audience-haemorrhaging promos, was analogous to how Baron Corbin is perceived now, except his push literally never ended. He had unprecedented leverage with which to write his own legend under the booker's pencil. If you were told now that King Corbin is as good as Ric Flair was in 1989, really, you wouldn't be too far off.
And yet, circum 2015, he was received as the saviour of WWE. That's how great NXT was.
Though it must be pointed out that NXT was helped enormously by WWE's main roster and its creative demise, Triple H did exceedingly well to create - or at least encourage - a stealthy Us Vs. Them narrative.
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