The Problem With Triple H That No One Wants To Talk About

Indeed, should WWE's earnings hold, 'The Game' will find himself the recipient of enormous recency bias during the embryonic stages of his run as top dog.

Everybody has their biases, but even some of Hunter's fiercest detractors could draw conclusions from the August 1 Raw and identify the Triple H creative quirks replacing Vince McMahon's most obvious (and most exhausted) ones. Much could be rooted in circumstantial or convenient coincidence, but 'The Game' will claim every W he can. Especially with more folk likely to spill the beans on Vince McMahon's latter day misfires now he's finally f*cked off.

On SummerSlam alone, reports were that Vince McMahon had no intention of turning Becky Lynch face (despite the joyously logical conclusion to her saga with Belair), and had noped the Bayley stable idea more than once as her comeback grew nearer. These were Triple H ideas and based on fan reactions on the night and in the aftermath, they were very good ones. But again, the proof of the pudding will be in how much some greedy executives are eating. "Don't do what WWE does" felt like an early modus operandi for All Elite Wrestling's televised output, but in the conversation of television rights fees and brand recognition, there was no better model to follow. Indeed - the money offered to WWE in 2018 played a big role in convincing Tony Khan that there was space for an alternative to make bank too.

Triple H's trickiest plate-spinning act won't be taking things Vince McMahon had broken and fixing them bit by bit, but working out how so many of those broken things made WWE so much money. The Problem With Triple H That No One Wants To Talk About - not least during this period of curious optimism - is that what if he makes the company subjectively better and objectively worse all at the same time?