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The Chief Content Officer of WWE, Triple H, recently voiced her opinions about the promotion's changes in the broadcasting of their RAW, SmackDown, and other pay-per-view events. On Monday, January 6, a historic feat in WWE's upcoming future was marked as the wrestling promotion made its debut on the online streaming platform Netflix. It was a show filled with exciting matchups between Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa, with Rhea Ripley defeating Liv Morgan to become the new Women’s World Champion. While the legends like The Rock and John Cena making their return.
Amid all these updates, "The Game" recently shared his thoughts on WWE's debut on Netflix and expressing his frustration over the company's changes to their broadcasting methods. These changes, which led to blackouts, also caused significant frustration among fans.
What Triple H had to say
On Monday, he appeared on The Press Box podcast and shed light on the sudden blackouts during WWE's television broadcasts. H explained that, initially, he too was frustrated by the blackouts, only to later learn that they were a result of censoring the crowd's "Holy Sh*t" chants. While censorship originally applied only to WWE superstars, it has now been extended to the audience. Instead of muting the specific words, the entire segment containing the cuss words is removed, causing the blackouts. Addressing the issue, the CCO admitted that his initial reaction to the blackouts was frustration and anger, but he later understood that they stemmed from updates to standards and practices.
"Well, first of all, there's a lot of factors in that. We have to deliver 'Holy Sh*t' television. [Laughs] The talent have to deliver 'Holy sh*t' moments. The first time they bleeped the 'Holy sh*t' out of a show for us, I was like, 'What do you mean?' Because it went fully to black at one point. I was like, what do you mean they did that? Why? They've never done that before," he said.
"When I get off the air here, I got a live television show to get through, but when I get off the air, somebody and I are having a phone call about this because I'm out of my mind on this. It's sort of the, 'Well, the standards and practices changed,' and all this stuff," he added.
He then explained that even though there is no update on how these changes will be followed on Netflix, he also urged the audience not to drop F-bombs.
