10 Things To Expect With Triple H Running WWE Creative
9. Premium Live Events To Feel Like A Big Deal Again?
As of this writing, SummerSlam 2022 is only a matter of days away. To say the excitement for WWE's purported Biggest Party of the Summer is lukewarm, would be like saying the Rock was a passable promo; it would be an understatement of dramatic proportions.
When looking across the decades, SummerSlam has often been one of the most anticipated shows on the WWE calendar. In terms of overall line-ups or individual matches, this long-standing, traditionally August extravaganza has been long talked about way after the PPV has concluded.
Sure, this year's SummerSlam will likely deliver some strong matches, yet there is minimal excitement around the premium live event. Worryingly, that's something that the upcoming show shares in common with the vast majority of the company's modern-day PLEs.
Throughout the Black & Gold days of NXT, a solid 90% of TakeOvers felt like a huge deal and regularly outshone their main roster counterparts. Of course, the caveat here is that TakeOvers took place five times a year. In the case of the main roster, there were 14 PPVs per annum in the pre-pandemic days.
If Triple H can at least make the traditional Big Four WWE premium live events - five, if you count Money in the Bank - once more feel like genuine big deals that you cannot afford to miss, that'll be a huge upgrade on the bang average feel such shows have had in recent years.