8 Ways Triple H’s WWE Is JUST LIKE Vince McMahon’s
1. Triple H Likes To Take The Credit
The word “genius” is associated with Vince McMahon mostly because he used it to describe himself so frequently. While Vince did this a lot under the guise of his Mr. McMahon character, the gimmick was barely fictionalised. WWE’s revisionist history in the documentary medium furthered this narrative.
Vince never missed an opportunity to let you all know that he took wrestling out of the smoky bingo halls - the biggest lie WWE ever told, incidentally - and how much he kicked WCW’s yokel yahoo ass. It was when Vince started bragging about this relentlessly that he grew mad with power, entitled, arrogant and lazy.
As bad as Vince was at sucking himself dry, he never once kicked off a WrestleMania event by referring to the next phase of programming as ‘The Vince McMahon Era’. Stephanie McMahon said that we’re in “the Paul Levesque Era” on Triple H’s behalf at the beginning of WrestleMania 40.
You can trace the creative decline of Triple H: main roster booker to the Netflix roll-out, as part of which he aimed to promote himself as the great genius powering WWE’s cinematic popularity. He was the man on the headset telling his talking props exactly when to milk a moment for maximum dramatic effect. When you really think about it, those were all his pops.
Triple H has since over-thought multiple storyline developments, plunging WWE into a chaotic mess of worked shoot injury angles and botched generational heel turns, all because he needs to be seen to have so many wonderful, genius ideas.