10 Bold Predictions For Wrestling In 2021
7. Triple H Is Removed From Mainland NXT Creative
Vince McMahon is ruthless.
If you think he won't ostracise or demote his own son-in-law, consider that he moved his own daughter away from creative once upon a time. He allowed Pat Patterson, his most effective and influential lieutenant, to drift away from the room - at which point it all went to sh*t, incidentally. He keeps himself very close to Bruce Prichard in 2020, per reports, but he f*cked him off as well, back in 2008.
NXT is just about functioning to achieve its core objective of stifling AEW Dynamite's numbers to below 1 million. But that's hardly a glowing appraisal of Triple H's ability to take the very company itself forward: his heavy metal workrate vision for WWE hasn't engaged younger audiences, at all, and if you're a shareholder, you're likely worried about WWE's long-term prospects.
It's not just the Wednesday test Triple H has failed; his recruitment model feels increasingly like he has spent too long CTRL+F'ing the Wrestling Observer Newsletter for asterisks without considering which performers are best-suited to selling stories with promos across the episodic TV cycle.
Short of the seismic blow-up predicted last year - Triple H did passive-aggressively "like" some tweets burying Vince in a development that really should have been a bigger news story - it's not at all unlikely that Trips will be asked to focus on his international expansion strategy.