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What is being said about Triple H’s involvement with the WWE talent departures from May of 2025

Aaron Rift

On Friday, it was announced that multiple wrestlers were parting ways with WWE including Braun Strowman and Shayna Baszler. In regards to Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s involvement with the departures, Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com stated the following during a live stream…

“From what I was told, if he wants somebody to be there, they’re going to be there. Gonna be there. Let me be clear about that — if he wanted them there, they would be there. They would absolutely be there.” (quote courtesy of RingsideNews.com)

Ibou of WrestlePurists.com went into more detail about the situation via Twitter/X…

“Triple H is the final say on any roster personnel decisions. Most non-injured wrestlers that are benched from the TV that he books are candidates to get cut whenever he’s told it’s time to shed roster salary.

The priority is that their books, and profit margins look good to shareholders after every quarter, which is why to juice up numbers, they shed contracts. Figuring out the WHEN on these matters is Ari and Nick. Figuring out WHO goes is Paul Levesque. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’d have to be impressively naive to believe otherwise.

The actual WWE product, roster, talent acquisitions, and business transactions with other promotions is Triple H’s domain. This was always going to be the end result of an influx of WWE ID talent trickling in through the system on the cheap and other avenues of acquiring talent. Especially when the base salary for main roster talent increased to $350,000/year.

The people that scapegoat TKO solely and pretend HHH has nothing to do with it when being mad at releases need to get real. Ari Emmanuel is likely unable to name more than 15-20 talent on the entire WWE roster.

How do so many people not have any clue how this works.”