How Every WWE SmackDown Superstar Is Perceived By Triple H
Just who does 'The King Of Kings' value most on his billion dollar wrestling show?
Like every powerbroker in wrestling, Triple H has his favourite things, and his not-so-favourite things.
It's going to be interesting over the next year or so watching exactly how much this impacts WWE television. Tastes determine everything no matter how much objective measures and data increasingly run the rule over major business empires. 'The Game' won't be any exception, even if some of the particular peccadillos aren't clear at first.
In Vince McMahon's case, the shows became the curious mix of insanely profitable and wholly unwatchable. McMahon's vision leaned into something resembling content production akin to a TikTok, but any attempt to remain an episodic drama or sporting emulation just disappeared further and further into a past he eventually sold off to Peacock.
Luckily for fans of half decent television first/impressive quarterly financials second, that mad old f*ck resigned in disgrace and his son-in-law has taken a seat he'd previously never sat further away from. Hunter in the top chair won't be for everybody - wrestlers included - but WWE, for the first time in years, has managed to win a few perception wars in recent months. 'The Game' has quietly entered a new kind of wartime mode. Who, exactly, is he going to take with him?
32. Los Lotharios
Triple H has made conscious strides to fix tag team wrestling in WWE, but made back-steps just as big with Los Lotharios. There's still a pecking order, pal, and these aren't f*cking going over anytime soon.