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Triple H clarifies what he said about people that criticize the WWE product online

Aaron Rift

Earlier this week, Paul “Triple H” Levesque addressed WWE’s critics while speaking to Peter Rosenberg. Triple H said the following…

“This will sound offensive to every critic out there. I wish I could tell people off for being a critic. Be a fan. Go watch this and be a fan.”

While appearing on The Pat McAfee Show, Triple H clarified his remarks…

“If I tell you that I saw a movie and I thought it was great and you should go see it. You just go see it, you’re a fan, you go watch it, you like it or you didn’t, whatever. If I say, ‘Go watch that movie, give me a report on it, tell me all the things that worked and all the things that didn’t,’ you go watch that movie differently. That’s my point. At some point, you loved this. You loved it more than anything and you grew up watching it and you’re invested and you went as a fan and for some reason you got into being a critic or someone asked you to be a critic and now you’re hypercritical. To me, that ruins the experience for people. I don’t want to go watch a movie or anything else and just criticize everything I see. I just want to go see if I enjoy the movie. People will criticize this.

I don’t put a lot of stock into what is on the internet unless it follows through to other things we do. When Jey Uso won the Rumble, there were a lot of people that had their thoughts, opinions, and comments on that, which is all they are at the end of the day. There are 15,000 people in a venue and it’s been sold out all the time, yeeting and going absolutely crazy when he comes out. Who do we listen to? The few people or the large crowd. We have a focus group every single night of a lot of people who are, in that moment, fans. Not being critics, not being anything else. People are allowed to love what they love and dislike what they dislike, and their opinions are their opinions, but you cannot base things on the opinion of some when the majority feels differently. When the majority starts to feel it, that’s when you gotta listen.” (quote courtesy of Jeremy Lambert)