Why Triple H And Vince McMahon Are Destined For A Huge Fallout

It is abundantly clear that Vince McMahon has lost professional respect for Triple H.

This has manifested in more than one way over the past several months and follows a whispered demotion last year. Reports that Keith Lee among others was sent back to the PC; the total lack of an NXT presence at WrestleMania 37; the ancient, sub-late-2000s quality of the RAW main event picture: well before this was formalised, NXT had become a nonentity in Vince's eyes. NXT chased critical acclaim too desperately and descended into masturbatory parody - a parody of a genre of pro wrestling that Vince always loathed, no less - at the exact same time as AEW's angle and promo one-two combo exposed it as an alternative flush on the chin. The melodrama, manufactured intensity and unambitious storytelling of NXT's later years lacked badly in contrast to AEW's expressive, energetic fun. It failed to mount an existential threat to AEW, and if there's anything Vince McMahon respects less than a technically accomplished wrestler under 6'0, it's a loser.

In response, Triple H has sensed this, and cut a very different figure to the man that once basked in the acclaim of the press when overseeing the most recent rounds of TakeOver media calls. He recently projected his own feeling of doom, and lashed out with the telling "If you don't like it, don't watch".

Triple H had already stealth-liked certain tweets in 2019 critical of Vince's "confusing and pointless" storylines, likely because those storylines drove his NXT projects underneath the core of the earth. This feeling can only have intensified, looking at the bizarre tale of Bronson Reed.

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