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Triple H has offered one of his most candid and self-aware assessments of the creative process behind WWE programming, acknowledging that not every decision lands and that maintaining balance throughout a year of television is as important as any individual standout moment. Speaking with Joe Tessitore ahead of WrestleMania 42, Levesque pulled back the curtain on what managing WWE’s creative output actually involves.
“If you’re online or you hear fans talking and they’re like, ‘I didn’t like that.’ Yeah, I know. Believe me, I’m the first guy going, ‘That didn’t work. That wasn’t good. We screwed up there.’ Sometimes you’re putting things out there, you’re like, ‘Eh, this’ll be decent. This is not going to be A++.’ It has to ebb and flow throughout the year. There’s times when, ‘This show will be good. It’s not going to be guns blazing.’ There’s times when you know you gotta put your foot on the gas,” Levesque said.
Triple H Says the Hardest Part of WWE Creative Is Balancing Today’s Epic Moment With Having Somewhere to Go Tomorrow
The challenge Levesque described went beyond just quality control — it is fundamentally about long-term planning and resisting the temptation to blow every creative resource at once. “All the time, people make suggestions of like, ‘What if you did this, and this whole thing?’ And it’s like, ‘Yeah, that’s amazing, it just doesn’t leave us a place to go.’ You have to balance out the ‘What do I do today that’s epic,’ and ‘What do I get to tomorrow?’ Nobody bats a thousand, I’m no different. But you want to try as best as possible to manage everybody to stay in the same ballpark so somebody’s not trying to swing for the fences while everybody else is trying to hit a double.” Levesque was named Chief Content Officer in September 2022, though he has previously acknowledged that the actual transition of power from Vince McMahon was far more gradual and less clearly defined than a single appointment date suggests.
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