8 Ups & 6 Downs From Triple H's WWE (So Far)

There are big wins and easy wins when booking pro wrestling, and it's pointless to reward Triple H for the latter kind.

For the longest time, WWE was no longer analytically comparable with any other wrestling company, which is perhaps what Vince McMahon had been aiming for from the day he classified it as Sports Entertainment to try and save on tax in certain states. Comparisons he'd previously made to Seinfeld in the 90s and Sopranos in 2000s (which for somebody that typically aimed low, were both enormous and preposterous missed swings in the opposite direction) were reminders that WWE's competition was mainstream television rather WCW, TNA or AEW.

This might still be the case with Paul Levesque, but he's spent enough time over the years telling us that he g*ddamn loves this business, pal, and some more of it showing us when NXT was genuinely the hottest product in pro wrestling. To this end, the second his father-in-law resigned in disgrace, Triple H allowed wrestlers to say wrestling again and several people with only one name were given a second one back.

But these were the aforementioned easy wins. On the eve of Hunter's first traditionally-crucial Survivor Series-to-WrestleMania run, how many big ones has he extracted from a fascinating and wholly unexpected summer season? And what of the big Ls for the man infamously immune to taking them?