Triple H wants to change the way people look at WWE.
WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H was a recent guest on Nightcap. While discussing iconic promos from wrestling’s past like Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair, Hunter attempted to explain his vision for the company and explain why it’s not a sport, it’s a movie about the sport.
“I say this a lot of times when people don’t understand,” Triple H began. “Like if we’re talking to network executives, they’re trying to figure out what we are. I say, we are less boxing and more Rocky. We’re not the sport. We’re a movie about the sport.
“And Rocky is really a love story, right? It just happens to have boxing as a background and the metaphor for all the things he has to overcome and do. Our business, when you talk about that emotion, you talk about the storytelling, you talk about all those things, that’s really where it resonates. And those are things — it’s why our business is evergreen.
“Very few people, unless you’re an incredible student of the technical aspects of it, nobody goes back and watches the Super Bowl from five years ago. People will go back and watch WrestleMania 3 to this day. Forty years later, they’re still watching. It’s the story, it’s the spectacle, it’s all those things. That’s where we’re different. We’re a spectacle and storytelling.”
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