Triple H recently appeared on the latest episode of FLAGRANT, where he discussed the criticism from WWE fans regarding the product and booking decisions. According to Triple H, who has overseen WWE main roster creative since the summer of 2022, fan complaints on the internet are not representative of real life.
“Here’s the beautiful thing about our world. The internet is not real life and the bitching and the complaining that is on there is not real life. You could read the internet and it’ll sound like this thing is dead. I’ll use Cody [Rhodes] as the example, ‘Cody’s already jumped the shark, he’s dead as a babyface’. He goes ‘really? I don’t know, I’m in an arena with 10-15,000 people every night going ape shit for me, selling the most merchandise’, but sure whatever you wanna say on the internet, that’s the golden rule — It’s just opinion of a few people.”
The beautiful thing for our business, unlike a movie, a TV show, a book, or anything else, is that we have a focus group….You go out, you go up, and you do standup, right? You do your standup for a year before you do the TV special or whatever, a lot of times, right? Because you’re trying out….and you’re seeing what works and what doesn’t. If you’re terrible at your job, you just do it the way you want to do it and it bombs. If you’re good at your job, you tweak things, you change things, make it seem fresh all the time, but you’re shifting along the way until you get to where it’s just right, and then you go put it out there, right? As we begin to tell these stories, this is working, this is not working. And whether people are bitching online or the reaction of people live….. ‘Jey’s terrible?’ merch, the reaction in the crowd, everything he does, like, yeah, it’s just opinion of a few people. So if a story piece bombs, you guys can get back and be like, all right, let’s just pivot and then we can save it. ‘Hey, that didn’t go the way I thought it was going to go, and they didn’t, they didn’t, they didn’t take that, or they didn’t react to that, or that didn’t click the way we thought it was going to. What if we do this instead?’ And you pivot and you move, right?
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