Triple H Facing Backlash Over His Answers About Vince McMahon’s Disturbing Allegations After Royal Rumble

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The Royal Rumble was a resounding success, unfortunately for Triple H and the WWE; the entire event was overshadowed by the serious allegations made against Vince McMahon.

On Friday, McMahon resigned from the company after he was accused of sexual misconduct and sex trafficking by a former WWE employee.

On Saturday night, WWE chief content officer Paul Levesque, better known as Triple H, faced the media and was asked questions about McMahon’s allegations, and at first, he tried to avoid answering.

“So I’m going to do exactly what you expected me to do here,” “Look, we just had an amazing week, and I just said it, 10-year, $5 billion Netflix deal. Rock joining our board. We just sold out the Royal Rumble with 48,000 people in Tropicana Field. I choose to focus on the positive. Yes there’s a negative. But I want to focus on that, and keep it to that.”

Triple H was about what the WWE was doing to ensure people in power within the company weren’t abusing their power.

“I’ll give you the most generalized answer that I can: everything possible,”“That is a very important thing to us, a very important topic to us. It’s as simple as everything possible.”

Paul “Triple H” Levesque asked what is being done to make sure people in positions of power can’t take advantage of employees under them:

Everything possible. pic.twitter.com/pNaQBouAqP

— Jed I. Goodman © (@jedigoodman) January 28, 2024

He was later asked if he had read the lawsuit against McMahon.

“I did not,” Levesque said. “I think Cody (Rhodes) mentioned it that we all found out in real-time when you (did) and that’s the truth. I’ll go back to what I said before — this is an amazing week for us. I just at this point, I don’t even want to get bogged down in the negatives of it. I just want to focus on the positives and where we’re going.

“We’re at the most exciting time of the year for us. We’re at the most exciting point, to me, business-wise, I think, that we’ve ever had. I think Cody might have said the, I don’t remember exactly how he said it, but the best positioning of this company since the ‘Attitude Era.’ I’ve been through that era. I understand what it’s like. I feel like we are in the middle of something that, while we might not be able to put our finger on it right now, five or 10 years from now, we’re going to be saying, ‘Wow, what a time that was.’ I want to focus on that.”

Triple H’s answers did not seem to satisfy wrestling fans.

Your father in law was just accused of sex trafficking and rape. Everyone knows how much I personally like Paul, but this was bad. The most powerful man in the history of the business was just removed in disgrace. This was really bad.

— Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) January 28, 2024

WWE exec Triple H was asked about the Vince McMahon lawsuit during a press conference and his answer was not good — he repeatedly said “this is an amazing week” for WWE and claimed not to have read the lawsuit https://t.co/xAGOmu7AJj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 28, 2024