Triple H is one of my least favorite pro wrestlers of the last few years. It seems like every time he's on screen, he's trying his damnedest to steal attention away from whoever else is on screen (or whoever else is trying to make a living wrestling). As has been said elsewhere online, he always comes off as trying to be the biggest, coolest, smartest dude in the room and it's aggravating because, until last weekend at Summerslam, he was being written as a good guy. Good guys aren't as arrogant and self-centered as his character is, or at least they shouldn't be.
But that said, Paul Levesque, a.k.a. Hunter Hearst Helmsley, is one of the more important figures in WWE/WWF wrestling over the last 20 years or so, not just for what he's been a part of in the ring, but also for the power and influence he's developed behind the scenes. So today's Grantland.com piece in which Triple H talks about how things are ordered in current-day WWE is interesting and enlightening because it comes from a perspective that truly does see just about everything happening in the company at one time.
If his role in talent development truly is as hands-on and involved as he says it is, then he's certainly to be commended on that front: WWE has more good in-ring talent at the moment than it's probably ever had, and a bunch more still working in the developmental show NXT, which just happens to be WWE's most consistently enjoyable and non-cringe-inducing show. That almost makes up for the last several years of mostly awful TV and PPV appearances by "The Game" (which he claims he didn't have much to do with from a creative aspect [I sure hope he didn't]).
