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WrestleMania is happening this weekend, so one of the guys in charge of the show, and all of the shows, WWE chief content officer Paul Levesque is making the rounds trying to promote the event. However, during one such promotional opportunity, an interview with, uh, well, WWE, “Triple H” said he wishes he could just tell critics of his company’s creative direction to “f— off.”
“This will sound defensive,” Triple H told Peter Rosenberg. “Every critic that is out there, I wish I could tell people, ‘F— off being a critic. Be a fan. Go watch this and be a fan.’
“If I tell you, ‘go to the movies and watch this movie. I saw it, it was really good.’ Then you just go to the movie as a fan. You watch the movie, you have one opinion. If I tell you, ‘Hey, go see this movie, but can you give me a one-page detail, what you liked, what you didn’t like, and if it worked for you or didn’t work for you?’ You watch it totally differently. Right? You watch the product totally differently. It ruins it for people. The world was so much better when nobody knew and you just watched it.
“And you go out and they try to ruin the surprise and I get it, that’s their business,” Triple H continued. “And they try to tell you the s— that’s going on, you just ruin it for people. The business that feeds you, you’re now ruining it for people and lessening their enjoyment of it to a large degree because you’re telling them all this, right or wrong, that it’s going to happen.”
There have been critics of wrestling for as long as there has been wrestling, so, Triple H was correct, that did sound defensive. It’s literally what turned professional wrestling matches that were actual competitions into the worked, scripted shows we see today. People were bored watching guys just grapple for two hours and wanted more of a show. People still want that show and if they don’t like it, they are going to be critical. Just like they are with, dare I say it, movies.