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THE GREATNESS OF THE AMERICANO SAGA, AAA AT MSG, HHH’S BOOKING DROP OFF AND MORE

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There seemed to be a sweet period in WWE where Triple HHH had full creative control in between Vince leaving and TKO taking over. However the past two Wrestlemania's have been lacking. I believe Mark Shapiro said TKO has full creative control so is the direction WWE is taking TKO's vision? Is HHH kinda stuck doing what TKO wants? The reason I ask is because the Bloodline story just seems redundant, and everyone seems to want to blame HHH but I'm not sure it's really his fault.

At the end of the day, TKO has full control of the company since they own it.  When they first took over, they let HHH cook and the product was hot.  Then, as they got more comfortable with the company, they foisted things on HHH.  With that said, he is still in charge of overall creative.  They don’t get involved in the day to day storytelling so while they have put some roadblocks in his path, the overall direction of creative is on him and I agree, overall he has been lacking the last year and a half.  Is he burned out?  Are there too many events now?  Has he lost his mojo?  I can’t say but what is definitely clear is that the booking is nowhere near as good as it had been.

Do you think the El Grande Americano mask vs. mask was the best blowoff to a main event storyline since Cody finished his story at WM 40? 

Mike Eps and I talked about that on Saturday.  I do think that, 100 percent. The storyline was so, so well done.

Besides the intense action, blood, tables, and fake finishes, all the loose story ends and supporting characters got their shine/closure as well for the El Grande Americano program climax. The post match was incredibly fulfilling and so emotional that my even partner was tearing up! That was wrestling perfection, but why can’t this type of solid storytelling be more of the rule vs. the exception for big main roster angles? Wasn’t “sticking the landing” once HHH’s calling card? What changed?

You nailed it when you said that Triple H used to stick the landing but that has changed.  As I said above, I am not sure what his issues are now but he clearly not booking to the level that he set a couple of years ago.  I hope that he can find his way back there.  It’s not Vince level bad, but when we know how good he CAN be, it makes it harder to watch him produce what we are getting now.  Also, to be fair, AAA is a one hour show so it’s a lot easier to book to that than to deliver the content on a weekly basis that H has to deliver.

You're getting a lot of questions about AEW running MSG but should WWE promote a AAA show there? Do you think they could fill it up? 

I think that they could because they would make sure to have enough of a WWE tie-in/promotion to fill the building, or at least come very close.  But, it would take promotion.  I don’t think that a cold AAA only show would sell out.  I definitely think that AEW could sell out the Garden if they ran there.

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