10 Red Flags For The Future Of Triple H's WWE
2. There's An Expiration Date On All The Returns...
...and we're at it now.
Triple H has brought back or redebuted so many former faces (and heels) in his short time atop WWE that it's becoming easier to forget one when reeling off the list.
The pops generated by Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky's respective returns and call-ups at SummerSlam feel longer than just three months ago, and perhaps that's something to do with Hunter getting high on his own supply?
It's a problem AEW have experienced, and it's not just the diminished returns of lowkey responses to surprise appearances either. All those wrestlers need something to do, and the less that's provided for them, the more the brand looks small-time for struggling to cope. WWE shouldn't experience that specific problem, but it already feels as though certain nice-ideas-at-the-time were just that and nothing more. Hit Row were embarrassed by Legado Del Fantasma on television, the bloom is off the Karrion Kross rose again, and it's by accident rather than design that half this article digs out Johnny Gargano but there's just been so much to pick at since he came back.
Bray Wyatt's comeback was an unqualified and objective success, but already at Week 3 in his bold new direction, things feel troublingly familiar with the character. WWE's still some way from Big Damo and Johnny Elite's AEW cameos feeling like they never even happened, but that doomed destination often arrives before it's too late to reverse the hearse.