Triple H has spoken about the WWE roster and how there is no backup for some of the biggest stars in the company.
Although WWE is the brand that draws thousands of fans to venues each year and sees millions watch around the world, it is the performers who help to sell the tickets and draw eyes to the program. Unlike mainstream sports, where the team is the main appeal, and fans will watch regardless of the line-up, things are a lot different in the world of professional wrestling:
Ahead of WrestleMania 42, Triple H spoke with SmackDown announcer Joe Tessitore about the upcoming show and how he has approached it. When asked if anything had surprised him about the lead-up to the show, the Chief Content Officer admitted that while there have been moments that he thought would go one way, fans have reacted differently and caused the company to change course.
“Oh, there’s a lot of them [surprises]. Because sometimes it’s surprises of the way that you think a crowd is going to react to something and they react differently. Sometimes it’s when you’re putting stuff together in your mind, Dusty Rhodes used to say this all the time to me, ‘In your mind, you see things 100 percent. If you can get 70 percent of that to come out on the screen, that’s a grand slam.’ In your mind, you picture it perfectly. In execution, it’s different. There’s a million variables that can change it that bring it down a notch, or two, or three, or 20, or whatever it is, right? So things turn out differently. Fans begin to react to things differently. What you thought you had locked in four months ago is not the path anymore. The path has changed.”
There Is No Backup Cody Rhodes”: Triple H
Continuing, the 2-time Hall of Famer compared WWE to sports and entertainment. Stating that there is no substitute for the biggest stars in the promotion, Triple H spoke about how the stars are the attractions in their own right, while also adding that they are unable to pause if someone gets injured:
