WON: Triple H Given 'Quiet Demotion'

[Starshine]

If he's just working on NXT right now, that's definitely a demotion. Let's be honest, NXT has one job right now, and it's been failing on a weekly basis for a while now. It's not good to go from a talent relations / event organisation / general creative position to just running the distant third brand that's also failing by WWE standards.

[timelimitdraw]

Just now on Smackdown, when Michael Cole talked about how busy Triple H was when he got back to the desk: "I'm the only man in the world that can get demoted and get busier, apparently."

[Feargus McReddit]

Mar 13, 2020 19:38:24 GMT -5 timelimitdraw said:

Just now on Smackdown, when Michael Cole talked about how busy Triple H was when he got back to the desk: "I'm the only man in the world that can get demoted and get busier, apparently."

I mean...if you have more stuff to do and can’t delegate as much as you used to...

I don’t know, spade’s a spade, man.

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I can't believe he was demoted to being a cameraman.

[gl83]

Mar 13, 2020 20:39:01 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

I can't believe he was demoted to being a cameraman.

....Now he's been demoted to makeup artist......

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

If this is demoted HHH, I gotta tell ya, it's a delight

[Nic Nemeth]

If demoted HHH is replacing Corey Graves each week, it's a promotion for the product.

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Mar 13, 2020 21:01:04 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

If this is demoted HHH, I gotta tell ya, it's a delight

Yeah, he went absolutely cuckoo tonight. Full of life! 

["Trickster Dogg" James Jesse]

Mar 13, 2020 20:36:47 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

Mar 13, 2020 19:38:24 GMT -5 timelimitdraw said:

Just now on Smackdown, when Michael Cole talked about how busy Triple H was when he got back to the desk: "I'm the only man in the world that can get demoted and get busier, apparently."

I mean...if you have more stuff to do and can’t delegate as much as you used to...

I don’t know, spade’s a spade, man.

From all the burying he's done, Triple H would know a lot about that.

[sportatorium]

Sounds like he’s taken a focused role on making NXT more competitive with AEW and getting the Japanese version off the ground. Demotion is in the eyes of the beholder.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Mar 14, 2020 23:29:24 GMT -5 sportatorium said:

Sounds like he’s taken a focused role on making NXT more competitive with AEW and getting the Japanese version off the ground. Demotion is in the eyes of the beholder.

I read that as Demolition at first... >_>

[sportatorium]

Mar 14, 2020 23:31:09 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Mar 14, 2020 23:29:24 GMT -5 sportatorium said:

Sounds like he’s taken a focused role on making NXT more competitive with AEW and getting the Japanese version off the ground. Demotion is in the eyes of the beholder.

I read that as Demolition at first... >_>

Here comes the Smashuuuuh.

[segaz]

Mar 13, 2020 20:39:01 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

I can't believe he was demoted to being a cameraman.

That would actually be a good heel manager gimmick. Always filming his wrestlers simultaneously and editing them in post to make his wrestlers look stronger

[Dub H]

So since people love taking those thing sout of context

It wasnt a confirmation or even a report.

He said there were people that FELT it was a quiet demotion.

It is pretty much bullshit I believe that he was demoted.Someone overreacting very likely

[111111]

Is It possible this is a move to protect him in the future?

If the keys of the company are going to be handed to him one day then they have to convince stockholders and the board that it’s a good move.

Having him overseeing developmental and building up a track record there and not being in a position where he can be blamed for current problems the company is facing overall seems like a strategic move so he’s not “tainted” whenever it’s his time to take over.

I could be talking out my ass as always.

[Perfect Timing]

Mar 13, 2020 9:20:29 GMT -5 realist said:

This seems like less of a demotion and more of a lateral move to me.

It's Hunter so it could seen as Bi-Lateral.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Mar 15, 2020 14:56:06 GMT -5 Perfect Timing said:

Mar 13, 2020 9:20:29 GMT -5 realist said:

This seems like less of a demotion and more of a lateral move to me.

It's Hunter so it could seen as Bi-Lateral.

He is bi- a lot of things, after all.

[Citizen Snips]

Mar 15, 2020 10:49:17 GMT -5 Dub H said:

So since people love taking those thing sout of context

It wasnt a confirmation or even a report.

He said there were people that FELT it was a quiet demotion.

It is pretty much bullshit I believe that he was demoted.Someone overreacting very likely

Triple H himself said he got demoted on Smackdown. That's the most firsthand source possible.

[Feargus McReddit]

Mar 15, 2020 18:15:25 GMT -5 Citizen Snips said:

Mar 15, 2020 10:49:17 GMT -5 Dub H said:

So since people love taking those thing sout of context

It wasnt a confirmation or even a report.

He said there were people that FELT it was a quiet demotion.

It is pretty much bullshit I believe that he was demoted.Someone overreacting very likely

Triple H himself said he got demoted on Smackdown. That's the most firsthand source possible.

Wasn’t it more of a gag if anything? I didn’t watch Smackdown but that’s how it seemed like from what people were saying. I also wouldn’t really see HHH admitting that on TV non-ironically? Just as a way to “work the marks” or whatever odd mindset they had.

[Allie Kitsune]

Mar 13, 2020 16:46:19 GMT -5 Final Countdown Jones said:

The reality is, NXT's 'global expansion' is not actually a big project. It's a franchising of their wrestling school, and an expansion of scouting and try-out efforts onto a bigger scale with the effect of trying to hamper non-WWE scenes. And it's an expensive, unprofitable one. Even with Takeovers and the TV deal, it isn't bringing in a net gain; now that loss is justified for what having a top of the line school can do in terms of building up the next generation, but it is still ultimately a side project. Going from overseeing that and all of talent relations--where he can then have finger control over the goings on with contracts and the roster he wants for the future--to simply overseeing that is definitely a loss of power. Whether it's one that signals him losing control and clout or is simply him refocusing his efforts is the actual question. But the objective statement isn't one that says it defintely isn't or definitely is.

The idea of NXT Global isn't even the worst idea, if it was being used in the way it should (Talent shifting around between the different Performance Centers to be able to learn each style of wrestling without there being a huge financial risk on the part of the talent to do so).

But as long as Vince is around, that's not how it's going to function. Instead, it's going to be used to spread the stale homogenized "WWE Main Event Style" that we've all grown sick and tired of across the world.