Why Vince McMahon Has Lost Total Faith In Triple H

Bruce Prichard
WWE

The grand vision for NXT wasn't limited to a state-of-the-art training school; it was erected to build WWE's future from top-to-bottom across virtually every department.

In 2015, you'd have expected NXT creative wizard Ryan Ward to have "taken over," and while he is positioned as Vice President of Creative Writing, WWE in 2021 is the Vince McMahon and Bruce Prichard show once again. Hell, big John Laurinaitis, the man who allegedly explained to AJ Lee that it's a shame no man would want to have sex with her, is back in as talent relations liaison. The WWE of 2021 is eerily - damningly - similar to the WWE of the late 2000s. The very existence of NXT is almost completely superfluous to it. That is wild.

If you are Triple H, you have to be thinking: "The f*ck?"

You have to be. You have to be thinking that for whatever reason - Vince's specific tastes, the fear of embracing a different future he doesn't need to in a post-rights fee era, or those telling TV ratings on Wednesday nights - Vince no longer perceives him as his successor. He can't. The evidence is all there on the screen. The future isn't now, the past is, and it's such a solid and unremarkable past, too. This is the biggest indictment. It's not as if Vince has once again parachuted in the stars of the Attitude Era in order to blind out how drab everything is.

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