'The Game' Triple H succeeds Vince McMahon as WWE's head of creative, fans rejoice

Triple H remains to be one of biggest names in wrestling business since his association with WWE from mid-1990s. Having returned to WWE in June after undergoing surgery due to a cardiac event that occurred in September last year, Triple H assumed his executive position as EVP, Talent Relations of WWE on Friday. Meanwhile, WWE anunced on Monday that Game will w oversee creative direction for promotion, succeeding former boss Vince McMahon in role. 

It should be mentioned that McMahon anunced his retirement from position of WWE’s chairman and CEO on Friday. He handled responsibility of overseeing creative direction for biggest professional wrestling company in  world, ever since buying company from his far Vincent J McMahon in 1982. McMahon used to have a say on all things related to WWE, starting from character development to intriguing storylines.

However, with McMahon gone, Triple H will w be tasked with duties of building storylines and also developing characters that feature in promotion’s flagship weekly shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown. Triple H is husband of McMahon’s daughter Stephaine McMahon, who is w co-CEO of promotion, alongside president Nick Khan. It is pertinent to mention that Triple H is 52 years old and anunced his in-ring retirement ahead of WrestleMania 38 in April.

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Triple H has worked as  executive producer of WWE NXT since 2011

He has been serving as WWE’s EVP of talent and live events since 2011 and initially focused on his brainchild, NXT brand. He served as executive producer for WWE’s development brand, NXT until stepping away from scene in September. first major task for him in his new role as creative director will be WWE SummerSlam 2022 PPV, which is scheduled to be held on Saturday night. 

More about Vince McMahon's retirement from WWE

Meanwhile, McMahon decided to retire following emergence of a Wall Street Journal report that claimed McMahon had paid out millions of dollars to former female employees to keep ir mouth shut over allegations of sexual misconduct. This led WWE board to launch an investigation against McMahon. It was later revealed during a regulatory filing on Monday that payments made between 2006 to 2022 amounts to a total of USD 14.6 million.

(Im: wwe.com)