Former WWE star Karrion Kross does not believe WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H is calling all the shots in WWE creative right now.
The released former NXT World Champion offered an insider defense of “The Game” on a recent edition of The Ariel Helwani Show, arguing that the booking decline fans have pointed to since WrestleMania 42 does not match the version of Triple H he worked under.
Kross suggested that outside parties are shaping decisions and that Triple H is left to make the best of it, framing recent continuity failures as the work of “new players” rather than WWE’s head of creative.
If I had to guess, I would say that there are people who call things in, and he has to make the best of what they want to play out on television and the PLEs,” Kross said. “That’s just my guess, and I base that on patterned recognition.”
He pointed to the way modern audiences react when episodic storytelling loses its thread, comparing it to the old days of punishment booking where a push would suddenly die and the reason would surface later.
Now that there’s new players involved, when there’s a failure of continuity and people don’t like it, it removes people from the suspension of disbelief,” Kross said. He added that the current product does not reflect Triple H’s instincts.
I don’t think that’s him. He has his own patterns that I think were aligned with what the audience mostly wanted to see, and that’s speaking as a person who used to work for him,” Kross said. “And I knew when he could call all of his shots, and I had an idea of when he couldn’t. And to me, this looks like a situation where he can’t call all the shots.
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Kross also said his independent run has only grown, including a standout night at MLW Battle Riot where he wrestled for around 90 minutes, won the match, and dedicated the moment to his mother, a cancer survivor watching from the front row.
