Triple H responds to the notion that WWE is afraid of criticism.
WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H was a recent guest on ESPN’s First Take. When asked if the company had any concerns about letting people in more with the Netflix series, WWE: Unreal, Hunter said they looked at all aspects of things before committing to the series and believes they aren’t afraid of criticism, or else they wouldn’t run live shows every week.
“Absolutely, we all looked at that,” Triple H admitted. “We looked at every aspect of it, and the positives and the negatives, and we weighed it out. You can’t be afraid to do something in life. You can’t be afraid that well, somebody might criticize us. If we were afraid that people might criticize what we do, we wouldn’t put on a show every week. It’s part of what makes us wonderful, and what we do is that you can look at it behind the scenes.
“You can look at it no differently than a sport. You can look at it and say, this coach doesn’t know what he’s doing. I would have done this, and I know that would have been better. You can think all those things, but seeing what goes into it, I think of us a lot as people that weren’t fans of F1 Racing, see the behind the scenes of everything that goes into it, and it has increased their respect of an industry, their respect of what those athletes go through and what goes into bringing a race to life.
“I think this just increases the respect level for what we do. Are there people that are going to criticize? Yes. Are they going to see things out of context or moments in time that they want to criticize and jump on? Absolutely! But at the end of the day, we put on an amazing entertainment program that is seen by millions and millions of people around the globe.
“This is a look into what everybody behind the scenes goes through to put this show on. It is their life. It is their passion, and we all come at it from that point of view. So I think at the end of the day, the passion earns respect from our fans, and that’s why we’re doing it.”
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