Paul Levesque, a.k.a. Triple H, opened up about his transition to WWE Chief Content Officer when Vince McMahon resigned from the company.
Levesque was a recent guest on Cody Rhodes’ “What Do You Wanna Talk About” podcast, where the current Undisputed WWE Champion asked Levesque if he thought WrestleMania 40 was the event where he felt fully in charge of creative in WWE.
“I think so, and again, this is where I’m terrible with times,” Levesque told Rhodes. “It’s not like one day, ‘Here, it’s yours,’ and everything else went away. There were so many aspects of, ‘Hey, Vince is stepping away. You’re going to take this spot,’ but he’s still chiming in, and he’s still meeting with me all the time. And he’s still directing traffic from the side. There’s no real clear moment for me, but I would consider it that, yes.”
Levesque also noted the complexities when handling his role as Chief Content Officer.
“At the end of the day, when people are like, ‘Yeah, but it’s your decision, right?’ Yeah, sort of. And you have to defend your position, and you have to sell that to people and explain it to people. If it’s a little bit not your position or a little bit, ‘Well, why did this happen,’ and you don’t want to say, ‘ Well, because that wasn’t totally my decision.’ And not because you don’t want it to seem like you totally don’t have that power, you just have to position it that way.”
McMahon announced his retirement from WWE in July 2022 amid sexual misconduct allegations. Months later, McMahon used his voting power to return to the company as a board member and publicly disclosed text messages that showed he had a hand in the WrestleMania 39 main event.
Levesque’s comments on Rhodes’ podcast came after Brandon Thurston’s report that revealed text message exchanges between Levesque and WWE President Nick Khan. Those text messages show how concerned Levesque was about McMahon’s involvement in WWE creative in 2023 before he permanently resigned from TKO in 2024, just after former employee Janel Grant filed a federal sex trafficking lawsuit against him and WWE.
Since then, McMahon has had no known involvement with WWE, and Levesque maintains his role as WWE Chief Content Officer.
