10 Things To Expect With Triple H Running WWE Creative

Following hot on the heels of Friday's announcement that Paul Levesque was back in his old WWE's Executive Vice President, Talent Relations position - which itself was shortly followed by the news of Vince McMahon's immediate retirement - this week brought word that Levesque is also now the company's new Head of Creative.

Having seen what sort of wrestling product Triple H had craft during his time headed up NXT, many fans have been left salivating at the prospect of what the Game may bring to the Raw and SmackDown brands. Granted, overseeing one or two weekly hours of Black & Gold television is a vastly different beast to handling five hours of main roster action, but still, there's no doubting that this latest WWE development can be viewed as nothing but a positive move.

Truth be told, the WWE product had been largely treading water for years before AEW came into existence, but the arrival of Tony Khan's All Elite Wrestling has only further shone a spotlight on how, quite frankly, subpar WWE programming continues to be when held up against a vastly superior product.

So, the optimists out there are thinking that having Triple H handling creative duties is fantastic news, while even the naysayers will admit that the Cerebral Assassin can't do any worse a job as his predecessor.

With that in mind, then, here are ten things to expect now that Paul Levesque is steering the WWE ship.

Purportedly like Las Vegas, these days it's very much a case of what happens in NXT, stays in NXT.

Fans have long grown tired of spending months, sometimes years investing in an NXT talent and watching their journey of development, only to then have all of said development erased from history. Look at poor LA Knight right now.

Already a polished act upon landing in NXT in 2021, fans eventually got used to the new moniker for the former Eli Drake. From there, his ever-engaging mic work and stellar in-ring game saw Knight become one of the most popular acts on the brand, with many eager to see the one-time Million Dollar Champion's career progress on the main roster.

Here we are, with the electric LA Knight persona a thing of the past, and the unfortunate fella tasked with titillating juices as Max Dupri. Reportedly now removed from his own Maximum Male Models group, it remains to be seen what's next for this ridiculously charismatic star, and many are hopeful that he may have the chance to revert to his LA Knight mantle on Raw or SmackDown.

Away from Knight, there's countless other examples of WWE opting to completely ignore so much of what made a character connect in NXT. Look at Shayna f**king Baszler, Karrion Kross, Keith Lee, Pete Dunne, Viking Raiders, Dominik Dijakovic. Hell, go back and look at what they did with Bo Dallas and Adrian Neville. And these are just the tip of the iceberg.

With Triple H in charge, one has to presume that more respect will be put on the NXT name, and that called-up talent will remain in-tune with how they were presented in the company's developmental arm.