WWE Executive Chairman Vince McMahon has no say over the day-to-day operations of WWE Creative, according to Chief Content Officer Triple H.
When McMahon returned to WWE in January, many worried that he would resume his role as Head of Creative, a role that the Game was appointed to last year.
During the post-SummerSlam press conference, Triple H addressed McMahon’s involvement with the on-screen product. He said,
“I’m not a doctor, I can’t tell you how fast that recovery will be, if I’m a guessing man, I’ve seen Vince comeback from some remarkable things way faster than anybody else I’ve seen do it. He still brags he was back quicker from two quad tears faster than I was from one, so ya know, how long that is, I don’t know.
“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, a very valid one, that without Vince and his vision for this business, maybe it wouldn’t be here anymore. There was some things at the time back in the day that were very popular, roller derby, things like that, that just disappeared off the face of the planet, that I can remember as a kid, watching that on TV, right after wrestling, and thinking it’s kind of a similar thing, but gone, never to be seen again. 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.”
“At this point in time, if all of us didn’t look at moments in time for council from him, for thoughts or ideas or if we have a question to go to him and ask, we’d be silly not to. It’s sitting next to somebody that knows about this or has forgotten more about this than you’ll ever know, maybe, and to not utilize that in some aspect. But is he day to day, no. Is he in it all the time? No. And if anybody has, he’s earned the right to do that.”
McMahon is currently recovering from spinal surgery and was recently served with a search warrant and subpoena in relation to last year’s ‘hush-money’ scandal.
