10 Major Challenges Facing WWE In 2018
1. The Ego Has Landed
He just couldn't help himself.
Triple H, even during his last WWE Title victory in 2016, wasn't as big a d*ckhead as he was at November's Survivor Series. Or the Raw that preceded it.
He put the very worst of himself on display for the first time in a generation. Those that lived through his 2002-2005 reign of terror felt the bile rising in their stomachs as he pounded away on Bobby Roode and Shinsuke Nakamura as commentators were instructed to bang on about him effectively gifting them the privilege of sharing the ring with him. It's perhaps why his closing stretch with Kurt Angle, Shane McMahon and Braun Strowman was particularly vomit-inducing.
It was worse when the cameras ceased rolling. He defeated Jinder Mahal in New Dehli, after joining The Shield just for the craic on the European Tour weeks earlier.
Based on how he abused his position as NXT kingmaker to no-sell a Roman Reigns assault in 2015, it's astonishing he's not yet wrestled a match on a TakeOver special, but plummeting attendance figures could indeed motivate his latest 'Cerebral' manoeuvre.
On circumstantial evidence alone from his movements over the past several years, keeping Triple H's illogical and immovable gimmick as far away from television over the next 12 months is by far WWE's toughest test.