10 BOLD Predictions For WWE In 2020
2. Vince McMahon And Triple H Fall Out
How has this not happened already?
For several years now, Triple H has produced countless main roster-ready talents - or parachuted them in from PWG and pretended to - and for almost as long, Vince McMahon has borrowed his sledgehammer and smushed them into unrecognisable monstrosities. You liked the stoic warrior Aleister Black? Tough t*tties. He talks pretentious b*llocks now, and can't work out that interfering in a match is a guarantee of making a match-uh in the commercial-uh break-uh. You liked sweet, spirited Bayley? Tough t*ties. She is afraid of fighting now. You liked Kairi Sane, the most natural babyface of her generation? Tough t*tties. She's a heel now, for reasons we've not adequately explained.
F*ck you.
It's something that has already threatened to surface; earlier this year, Triple H liked a tweet that bantered off Vince McMahon's excuse that injuries were the cause of WWE's ratings woes. This indicated, but didn't quite prove, that Triple H is losing patience with the old man.
It's very unlikely that we will see a permanent separation.
But NXT is now in Vince's purview, and already, it's all getting a bit ominous: Vince's drive to defeat AEW undermined the WarGames build. It took Vince approximately two months to make NXT not make sense. If AEW once more defeats NXT in the ratings, Vince will interfere further, and at some point, a difference in philosophy - the explosion of years of it - will result in a shock gorilla slanging match at the very least.