After a creative behind-the-scenes battle engulfed WWE from SummerSlam 2022 through January of 2024, Paul “Triple H” Levesque has finally and fully taken over as the promotion’s CCO, with WrestleMania 40 officially ushering in the Triple H era of WWE, and no one is more excited about this development that Kofi Kingston, the former WWE Champion and long-time member of New Day.That’s right, after finding incredible success under Vince McMahon, even if his seven-second loss to Brock Lesnar on SmackDown forever left a bad taste in more than a few fans’ mouths, “The Jamaican Sensation” is incredibly excited to work under Levesque, as he brings a new, story-driven match style that elevates the product extraordinarily, as he noted in an appearance on the Battleground podcast.
“I think he’s doing such a phenomenal job right now. You got glimpses of what he could do with a roster when he was running NXT. When he took over NXT, there was a lot of eyes on NXT because they just started doing things a little bit differently, especially in comparison to the way things were run on the [main] roster at that given time. So now to see him at the helm, being able to bring that same mentality to the main roster, it’s great. Like I said, you’ve seen the results of it. You’ve seen how people are engrossed in the product. I think he really understands, and you go back and you think about him as a worker, his matches were storyline-based, story-driven.
The matches themselves told a story from start to finish. So to bring that same mentality to the show now, you can see that, and I think it’s great,” Kofi Kingston told Battleground via Fightful.
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“I think he’s doing a phenomenal job. Hat’s off to Triple H. It’s been an amazing ride. I think one of the main things that he focuses on is doing things in a unique way. It might be a little thing here and there. It might be the way that Sami Zayn enters into Montreal on the heels of Jey Uso leaving the crowd, leaving the building, you see Sami Zayn looking up at the building.
Now Sami Zayn comes in. It’s little, but it’s so outside the box that it makes it really, really unique, to get the perspective of the crowd from Sami Zayn’s angle. I’m watching, I’m like, oh my god, it just feels different. There’s a lot of little things like that that he will do. They add so much to the product and the presentation of a match, the presentation of a promo, the presentation of an interaction, somebody being in the background of something, little Easter eggs for people to be rewarded who have invested in the product for so long.
So it’s really cool to see that he’s really going out of his way to make the product different after so many years of the way it’s traditionally been.”
While Levesque’s pension for long, unbroken camera work that extends from segment to segment has caught the eye of fans around the world, his willingness to allow wrestlers to work long, fun matches that often progress storylines in the ring instead of just in backstage segments and promos has created a brand new world for WWE that has played a massive role in the promotion’s revitalization over the past 18 months.
