WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H says Vince McMahon is not involved with WWE creative day-to-day.
McMahon reportedly had major spinal surgery in late July. Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select reported that it was unclear whether the surgery would affect McMahon’s work. McMahon had reportedly been making changes to WWE shows from a remote location in recent months.
During the WWE SummerSlam post-show press conference, Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics asked Triple H about Vince McMahon’s current contribution to creative. He also asked what extent McMahon recovery will impact his ability to contribute. Triple H noted that he wasn’t sure how long McMahon’s recovery would take. He also highlighted McMahon’s legacy.
“As far as the surgery, I’m not a doctor,” Triple H said. “I can’t tell you how fast that recovery will be. If I’m a guessing man, I’ve seen Vince come back from some remarkable things way faster than anybody else I’ve ever seen do it. He still brags that he was back quicker from two quad tears than I was from one. So how long that it, I don’t know.
“As far as contributions, I would just say this. The reason WWE is what it is, the reason this business, not just WWE, because you could make an argument that without Vince and his vision for this business, maybe it wouldn’t be here anymore. There was some things at that time back in the day that were very popular that just disappeared off the face of the planet. Vision of what he did changed the business, changed all of it for 50 years. Incredible run of success. No greater mind in the business.”
Triple H continued by noting that it would be silly not to ask for “counsel” from McMahon. However, he stated that McMahon is not involved with WWE creative on a day-to-day basis.
“At this point, if all of us didn’t look at moments in time for counsel from him on thoughts or ideas or if we had a question to go to him and ask, we’d be silly not to,” Triple H said. “It’s sitting next to somebody that knows more about this, it has forgotten more about this, than you’ll ever know, and to not utilize that in some aspect. But is he day-to-day? No. Is he in it all the time? No. If anybody has, he’s earned that right to be able to do that.”
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