10 Red Flags For The Future Of Triple H's WWE
3. Borrowing Bad Stuff As Well As Good
Despite humiliating his pet project in a war Triple H never wanted to fight and never really had the ability to win, All Elite Wrestling has proved something of a quiet inspiration in this bold new era for WWE.
Hunter has surveyed the television travel schedule and made smart booking choices centred around what might pop local crowds. He has - in grand and immediate fashion - loaded up WWE with stables to facilitate feuds without burning out the key components or live audiences on the pairings themselves. And he's brought lots of familiar faces out to big reactions to ensure there'll be discourse the morning after.
But already, he might be leaning into the excessive side of Tony Khan's tropes. Chad Gable was brutalised in his hometown in a way not dissimilar to how Vince McMahon might have booked it, and with way less creativity than was originally implied. Stables aren't a shortcut to success, as is being proven by Hit Row and the tepid reaction to Damage CTRL's bland story. And especially as relates to the deluge of debuts...