10 Dark Secrets Wrestlers Accidentally Revealed
9. The Vince McMahon Vs. Triple H Real-Life Tension
Triple H, when booking NXT, had to bite his lip for almost as long as he cinched in the Indian death lock (nine years).
He was often asked about how the call-up process worked before he was installed (officially, anyway) as Chief Content Officer/main roster booker. He knew enough to know what people thought - that an incompetent and careless Vince McMahon butchered the talents he had guided (or simply pushed) on NXT. As he often does, HHH criticised supposedly ignorant fans for failing to understand the arcane inner workings of the business.
Speaking on the pre-NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III media call, Triple H said:
"And it’s funny because sometimes I’ll see people think or say, ‘Oh my God, this person has been so ready for so long.’ They don’t know the things that they’re missing that we can see from our side of it. I don’t want [a talent] to fail on this one piece whenever [they] get up there, whatever that is."
But how does that explain, for example, the Lacey Evans call-up? Wasn't Roderick Strong exponentially more "ready" than she was? Evans was grass-green when she arrived on Raw, and if everything was in place for her, so that she wouldn't fail on a single "piece", why has she been repackaged more often than Ed Leslie? Why has she already disappeared again?
A cynical but not entirely inaccurate take is that Triple H knew he was full of it, but had a relationship with his father-in-law to protect. A big corporate move years in the making to not risk.
This might explain why, in what perhaps was a particularly frustrating period in 2019, he let the mask slip and liked the following tweet. He subsequently un-liked it. Did his finger slip, or was he worried that he got caught?
