Triple H Rants Against Leaks and Online Critics – WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H voiced his frustrations with wrestling spoilers and online criticism, saying fans should stop trying to predict outcomes and just enjoy the product.
In a candid and expletive-laced interview with Pete Rosenberg, WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H opened up about the difficulties of running a wrestling product in the age of social media, spoilers, and constant online critique. “The Game” made it clear he wishes fans would stop watching wrestling through the lens of a critic and simply enjoy it as intended—entertainment.
“This will sound offensive. Every critic that is out there. I wish I could tell people, f*** off being a critic. Be a fan. Go watch this and be a fan,” Triple H said. “If I tell you, ‘Go to the movies and watch this movie. I saw it. It’s fucking really good.’ And you just go to the movie as a fan. You watch the movie, you have one opinion. If I tell you, ‘Hey, go see this movie. But can you give me a one-page fing detailed like things on the… What you liked, what you didn’t like? And if it worked for you or didn’t work for you.’ You watch it totally differently. Right? You watch the product totally differently. It ruins it for people.”
Triple H also criticized the internet wrestling community for constantly trying to predict storylines and leaking upcoming plans, which in his view strips away the element of surprise that makes wrestling fun.
“The world was so much better when nobody knew and you just watched it. And now, you go out and they try to ruin the surprise and I get it, that’s their business,” he said. “You just f***ing just ruin it for people. The business that feeds you, you are now ruining it for people. And lessening their enjoyment of it to a large degree.”
He added that despite WWE’s efforts to keep plans under wraps, information still slips through the cracks.
“Yeah. We try [to not leak stuff]. And there’s still st where I’m like… We talk about something and the next day I see it. I’m like, ‘What the f*?’ How? Who? Like, I want to smack someone. Like, ‘How did this get out today?’” Triple H said.
Referencing the infamous Star Wars reveal, Triple H compared modern spoilers to leaking “I’m your father” before The Empire Strikes Back hit theaters. “That ruins the whole concept of the f***ing movie for you,” he said. “So, the Cena turn. The fact that nobody was saying and then John Cena turns heel was…”
He also called out recent speculation about The Rock returning, taking aim at exaggerated expectations from fans and pundits alike.
“The biggest thing I see right now on the internet is people thinking, ‘Oh, and then they are going to do this.’ Yeah, no, we are not. ‘And then The Rock’s going to show up and he’s gonna do this and he’s going to have the greatest match with this guy of all time.’ Well, except for his f***ing movie schedule, which doesn’t permit him from doing anything in this timeframe.”
The Game also said that he finds it ironic that wrestling veterans expose the business through their own podcasts but by doing so, they complain that the new generation is not protecting it enough.
“It always makes me laugh in this current day and age that old timers will do podcasts. Where they’re giving everything away from their generation of the business and saying how terrible it is that these kids don’t kayfabe today. So, let me get this straight, you’re on a podcast telling everybody all the non-kayfabe stuff. And then complaining that there’s no kayfabe today? Genius,” Triple H said.
Triple H’s comments reflect ongoing frustrations among those behind the scenes in WWE, who face growing difficulty keeping storylines under wraps while balancing fan enthusiasm with the challenge of managing expectations.
Triple H Rants Against Leaks and Online Critics
