10 Ways Triple H's WWE Dream Became A Complete Nightmare
3. The Merger
As if the deflated feeling after WrestleMania 39 wasn’t bad
enough, we shortly learned that WWE had indeed been bought out, merging with
UFC to form a super-company.
This merger came with another challenge for Triple H: Vince McMahon was now fully back in charge of the company. He gave interviews talking about how he would get involved in creative – but only in major storylines. This of course was a crock, and reports began trickling out of McMahon calling in changes to the show, upending plans and wreaking the same havoc he used to cause previously, effectively tearing up the Raw script hours before the show went on the air.
Since then, we’ve heard stories about Triple H and company trying to find workarounds, such as booking matches and announcing them a week in advance to “Vince-proof” the show against his changing it on a whim. There’s been talk about having an intervention with Vince to get him to stop flubbing up the programs with his senile changes.
What was once fun and competent booking has given way to a
perpetual state of preemptive damage control. That’s no way to live – not for
Triple H, and not for the talent.