During the post-WrestleMania 40 (Night Two) media scrum, WWE’s Chief Content Officer Triple H commented on WWE’s production approach in recent months, Lee Fitting taking over for Kevin Dunn, and the work Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes have been doing as of late.
You can check out some highlights from the media scrum below:
On Lee Fitting’s work: “From a production standpoint, from a what we’re doing. From the look, the feel, all of it. You see changes happening every week on TV, and there’s going to be more of them. But you see them, and I see people excited by them and just loving the changes that are made. But I am telling you there is so much more to come. We made a conscious decision together, Lee, Nick and myself, to slowly rollout some of those changes over time. There is a lot more coming.
But when I tell you, Lee Fitting, man I love working with him. He has a passion for this, just like we do. Might be new, but man he is all in. And for me, he’s the kind of guy I want to go to work FOR. I want to do stuff to make his job easier, I want to collaborate with him, so I can’t say enough good stuff about him. A lot of the change you see and a lot of the success you’re seeing comes from lee fitting.”
On the innovations they’ve been doing: “We’re just trying new stuff. And seeing what works and what doesn’t. The stuff that doesn’t work, all right, we won’t do that one again. The stuff that works? Amazing. Let’s not run into the ground, but let’s do some cool stuff. We’re trying things, we’re trying different camera angles, different shots. We’re just — you know what we’re doing? Having s**tload of fun, right? And we talk about it all the time, all of us. Nick, Lee myself, everybody. The ideas are coming from everywhere now. It’s amazing to me to go on the floor and have people I have never heard say, ‘Hey, what if we tried this?’ ‘All right, let’s try it and see where it goes.’ I love having that, and having ideas, collaborating. I would rather have all of the ideas then a few of them. So they are coming from everywhere, now. We’re collaborating, and to me that is what will make this special.
“And as far as innovation goes, I don’t think we have even scratched the surface yet of the stuff that we’re gonna come out with in the next year or two. So we’re gonna have a lot of fun. And as the rock would say, just enjoy the ride.”
On Roman Reigns: “There is a lot of banter about ‘greatest of all time.’ You can make arguments for a lot of people in that, and there are a lot of metrics you can measure by, or opinions, or whatever it is. If he is not the, he is one of, absolutely for certain the greatest of all time. To do what he has done. To overcome all of the things in his career, and the positioning, and the stuff he had to get through and hung in there to get where he needed to be. To deal with his physical issues and his health issues, to overcome. The pandemic, to overcome. Everything he has had to deal with on the way here. And then to go out there and put out a run like no one has ever done be or. Epic moments, epic storytelling. I see that word cinema thrown around a lot, but it really is.”
“There are few guys that come along in the business where you say duriong that period of time, that they were in it, they changed the industry. He changed the industry. I mean that in front of the camera, behind the camera, he has changed the industry. He’s that good. Can’t say enough good stuff about him. And then to do what he did tonight with Cody Rhodes and complete that — and it’s not completing the story. It’s just getting to the end of that chapter. ’cause he’s going to go on a new story now that is going to blow people’s minds, I think. And I know he’s gonna take it to whole other level. I can’t tell you how much respect I have for Roman Reigns.”
On Cody Rhodes: “The hardest thing I think in this business right now is to make a babyface. And then to make a babyface that almost everybody likes. That people are not just booing because it’s fun to do in the moment, to buy into that story and be that guy. Cody is that guy, but he is not that guy because it was manufactured. He’s that guy because he’s the right guy. He’s the right human being, he is everything you want to believe in and get behind and see fight. It’s all that.
I’m just so happy for him. And when you talk about overcoming things, you know, he’s gotta’ go back and look at his career and the things he’s done. He’s forged his own path, he has done it all, and it’s a testament to him and who he is as a person. He’s never quit, he’s never given up. When one road shut down, he went to another road. When that road shut down, he made his own goddamn road. But the roads, all of them lead back here to where his dream always was… I’m happy for him, and I know he will do amazing stuff.”
