7 Uncomfortable Truths About WWE In 2026

4. The Triple H Problem

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This involves a lot of reading between the lines, but stay with us. Paul Heyman recently gave an interview to Chris Van Villet in which he inferred that nobody could do the job being asked of him better than WWE Chief Content Officer, Paul Levesque. When talking about how Heyman has professional writers pitching him to work for WWE, the former ECW head honcho insinuated that it's not as simple as writing good stories in 2026. The suggestion is that there is now a chain of command that a good story idea has to survive to reach our screens, one that seems even worse than whether a mad 80+ year old billionaire thinks it has legs or not.

When Paul Levesque first took over WWE creative around the time of the Royal Rumble 2023, WWE went on to have one of the best couple of years in company history. Babyfaces were easy to root for, stars like Penta, Dominik Mysterio, and Jacob Fatu felt like future main eventers, and Rhea Ripley was one of the first women since Becky Lynch in 2019 to ever feel like one of the company's biggest draws. Ask yourself this: Did Levesque just forget how to book a good wrestling show, or does it feel like interference from corporate overlords has made his ability to do so untenable?

Triple H's position feels like it's about being the best politician possible to try and make everybody happy, and not just creating the best wrestling product he can. Be it weekly TV shows feeling uneventful, WrestleMania being sacrificed as an entity in the name of record-breaking profits, or even the biggest superstars feeling like they're mid-level puppets in a show where WWE itself is the main attraction, Paul Levesque is becoming the face of WWE's declining product. How fair that is entirely depends on your viewpoint.

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