Triple H Living Up To His Word

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

I've been a harsh critic of Triple H the past few years in the ring because I'm so tired of his act and his boring promos. That being said, he's been great in charge right now. He promised three major things and it's been happening so far. We've seen new guys pushed in the likes of Sandow, Ryback, Cesaro, and the NXT combo. Then he promised that tag team wrestling would mean something again. It's clearly meaning something again and have about eight tag teams right now. The last thing he didn't say, but many sites reported about how Triple H is cutting down on the divas airtime. The Bellas, Beth Phoenix, and Maxime gone in the past six months? I know each had their personal reasons but don't you think they saw something behind the scenes that the divas were getting phased out. I don't blame Triple H at all considering how awful the division is. Katilyn is just pitiful and is being forced on TV big time, similar to Tessmacher in TNA. If you got the looks, you'll get your chance at a push regardless of how your in ring work is.

More tag team division wrestling, more new stars, and less divas wrestling. Well done Hunter Hearst Suit McMahon Helmsley.

 

[The Cork]

He's definitely going in a new direction, it'll end up driving a lot of people away but if he wants WWE to be like the indys then good for him.

Scrapping the divas is a massive positive, mind you.

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

The "indy's" are finally right back where they were when we called them territories. Just because they dont have Vince's money, and reality tv wash-ups as their champions does not make them any less entertaining.

I have been enjoying the new direction, new talent is being brought up, people are getting pushed, and with the tag division back up and running at full strength, more people are getting tv time.

 

[Mick Donalds]

I've gotta say I'm really enjoying the new direction as well. It's so nice to have longer reigning champions, as opposed to the Edge's, Rey Mysterio's and Randy Orton's who have "transitional" title reigns lasting 45 days or less. It's nice to see a full year go by without Wigger Jorts having the championship. It's nice to see them pushing talent like Damien Sandow and Dolph Ziggler, whom I see main eventing in 2-3 years time. The Tag Team division is surely coming back, and just so long as we can keep the WheelChairWrestling (putting Legends in the ring) off TV, I'm fine with where it's headed. It's almost as if there are hints or shades of the 1980's and 1990's coming back, albeit not with the full fledged Kayfabe approach...(obviously).

I used to LOATHE HHH back in the early 2000's. I stopped watching after he buried Jericho in the "Lucy the Dog" storyline. But I can forgive. He's doing a great job and i wish him luck.

 

[Darth Shizzel]

I think its been great too I don't like Triple in the ring as he's ego always goes before anything else but outside he has a good head for the buisness and at the moment despite what cork thinks people want to see the likes of Ziggler, Sandow, Rollins etc on their screen its getting balanced out again instead of just having John Cena and Randy Orton as your top boys.

Now its like this

Cena, Punk, Orton, Del Rio, Sheamus, Ryback all these guys below 40 are doing good for the company at the moment with the older guys like Kane and Big Show lending a hand but also reviving divisions Kane and Daniel Brian as the hilarious team hell no which eventually I think they will stop argueing with eachother ( I hope so its starting to get old).

Sandow, Cesaro, Miz, Rollins, Ambrose, Ziggler, Rhodes and Barret are slowly rising as well soon we will have a big main event scene for both the WWE and World title Cesaro needs to work on his promo skills though.

 

[Deezy]

Phased out Diva's division because nobody cares. Simple as that.

And focus on Indy? Nah, just bringing back rasslin instead of Entertainment. I am for all things old school.

 

[Dale]

Honestly, I just think you're giving him far too credit really. The only thing out of those things that you put that he could deserve being credited for is reviving the tag team division but that's about it. I personally don't see any major changes to the programming so had I not known from the dirtsheets that HHH was becoming influential with the programming and everything that entails, then I would just presume it was the same old captain steering the ship.

Using guys being pushed is a bit strange too as it's hardly a revolutionary concept, guys were being pushed before he got as much power as he did.

The divas thing I also disagree on. Sure they've cut plenty of Divas quite recently, but if anything i'd say recently they were getting MORE focus and MORE effort being put into their storylines. Sure it's not some awesome Mickie/Trish angle, but they've had this storyline going on for a while now and it seems to me at least they're getting more time in the ring too.

 

[Gimmick]

I've liked Triple H's influence so far. More focus on tag team wrestling, longer title reigns and the right kind of wrestlers (for the most part). It's nothing groundbreaking, and isn't going to change the WWE that much, but it's a step in the right direction nonetheless.

The only thing I don't really agree on is the use of the Divas division, even though as Dale said, it appears as if there's more focus towards it at the moment if anything.

 

[Mick Donalds]

No Flair, Hogan and Nash on WWE tv means it's going really well, people!

Be grateful!

 

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

Product may not be changing yet but at least we are seeing new wrestlers getting air time. As for divas, they may be getting some irrelevant dumb storyline and how long are matches? PPV they get 5 minutes, on TV they get about a minute or two. It's getting phased out and thats a good thing.

 

[John McHenry]

Phased out? what? Divas over the past two years barely had storylines and have had 1-3 minute matches. Lasted 7 minutes which was longer than the US Title match. If anything Divas are making a return too. I don't have a problem with that. I've also read that he wants to revamp the division and make it female wrestlers instead of models who sometimes wrestle.


Seeing new wrestlers getting air time? Are you referring to the three from the ppv and maddox? Four guys? Who have probably had a combined total of 20 minutes. They'll get placed in the mid card just like Barrett and Bryan have been doing. I mean 5-6 guys a year is about the norm for WWE. This is no different than when Nexus burst onto the scene it was a big story then they went to random places on the card.

The only think I can see HHH doing is upping the tag division and doing a very slow poor job of it. He's got too many tag teams and no storylines involved in the teams.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

I have yet to see the tag team division really mean anything... Sure it's getting a little spark, but there is no flame.

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

A year ago could you even name 3 tag teams? Currently there are over 2 dozen superstars getting tv time just from the tag division, and with such a large roster, its easier to get some guys over if you have so many teams.

The Divas have been getting less tv time in total, but the quality of the storylines has gotten better for it. Instead of 3 meaningless diva matches we get one that actually has a story behind it, and lasts long enough to show what these women can do.

The change on NXT is another good example, they took a failing format, turned it into their developmental territory, and are actually using it to elevate new talent to the main roster successfully. Mahal, & McIntyre were recently competing in #1 contendership matches on NXT, and are now part of a 3 man tag.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

Lots of tag teams, but not much of them mean anything. All of them were thrown together. Only 2 of them really work well. Has there even been a contendership tag match yet since the tourney?

 

[John McHenry]

A year ago could you even name 3 tag teams? Currently there are over 2 dozen superstars getting tv time just from the tag division, and with such a large roster, its easier to get some guys over if you have so many teams.

The Divas have been getting less tv time in total, but the quality of the storylines has gotten better for it. Instead of 3 meaningless diva matches we get one that actually has a story behind it, and lasts long enough to show what these women can do.

The change on NXT is another good example, they took a failing format, turned it into their developmental territory, and are actually using it to elevate new talent to the main roster successfully. Mahal, & McIntyre were recently competing in #1 contendership matches on NXT, and are now part of a 3 man tag.

Yeah all three of them are in the current tag team configuration they've added a bunch of singles guys together to make the others. How does this help the tag team division? All it does is pull from the midcard and weaken it. Ironically we have Tag teams that look and feel like tag teams still not on TV even though they've been around the entire time.

Diva TV time is on the rise not going down.

NXT your trying to talk about NXT as if it's relevant? How is it different than Jakked Metal Superstars etc. Sunday Night Heat was far more relevant than NXT which I can't even watch on TV or on YouTube in the US last time I felt compelled to check. FCW and OVW have always been on TV I fail to see how it's all that different aside from a slightly heightened production value that WWE gets compensated for because it's a learning classroom.


Change? Not really. More of the same in a fancy new wrapper.