Karrion Kross on Triple H’s 2026 booking decisions: “This looks like a situation where he can’t call all the shots”
While speaking to Ariel Helwani, former WWE star Karrion Kross was asked if WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque is “being forced to do certain things that he wouldn’t have done” when it comes to booking decisions. Here was Kross’ response…
“If I had to guess, I would say that there are people who call things in and he has to make the best of what they want to play out on television and the PLEs. That’s just my guess. And I base that on pattern recognition.
And that’s a thing that has become very prevalent, especially with, like, Gen Z. When it comes to entertainment, if you’re creating something episodic with continuity, when continuity fails, there’s a red light that goes off. People go, ‘What happened here?’ Especially with wrestling.
You know, back in the day, you’d hear about guys on punishment booking. Well, suddenly this push is killed. And then you hear months later he got in trouble outside of wrestling, so they didn’t feel like they could depend on him, or he hurt somebody. Dropped somebody on their head or something.
You know, now that there’s new players involved, when there’s a failure of continuity and people don’t like it, it removes people from the suspension of disbelief, that entertainment, you know what I mean? I don’t think that’s him.
He has his own patterns that I think were aligned with what the audience mostly wanted to see, and that’s speaking as a person who used to work for him.
And I knew when he could call all of his shots, and I had an idea of when he couldn’t. And to me, this looks like a situation where he can’t call all the shots, and I don’t mean that disrespectfully at all.”
.@realKILLERkross says Triple H never contacted him following his departure from WWE:
"It did bother me. I will tell you, it bothered me very, very much." pic.twitter.com/8IDFPiJMyP
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) June 10, 2026



