Has HHH Created Any REAL Main Eventers? - Wrestle Chop Podcast

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Triple H has been running WWE since WrestleMania 40… and everyone keeps saying the product is better.

But is it?

In this video, we break down every name that Triple H has had his hands on — from Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, and Rhea Ripley to rising names like Javon Evans, Oba Femi, and even wild cards like El Grande Americano.

We’re also looking at Liv Morgan, Jade Cargill, Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, and yes… even Kit Wilson.

The question is simple:
Did Triple H actually create new stars… or are we still living off the same names?

With WrestleMania 42 on the horizon, this is the real conversation nobody wants to have.

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Has Triple H created any new stars? Because we are now in WrestleMania 42, which means he's been in charge for two years. Who are his Stone Cold Steve Austin and Hulk Hogan's? We're gonna look at about 30 wrestlers today, and I'm gonna tell you if I think that Triple H has done a good or bad job creating stars. But first, let's talk about this belt on my shoulder. You see, some people are confused, and I wanna clarify things. I am gonna give away a belt at 20,000 subscribers. I say if you want the belt on my shoulder, all you gotta do is comment below and subscribe to the channel. That's all true. But here's the thing I'm not gonna give away 10 belts when I hit 20,000 subscribers. I'm gonna give away one belt. Let's pretend you out there in YouTube land, you are the winner. You then get to pick between this belt or this belt or this belt or this belt or this belt or this belt, these belts, this belt, or whatever belt is in here. You get to pick from any of those belts at 20,000 subscribers if you win. But here's the deal: once we run that contest, the next contest starts at 30,000 subscribers. I give away another belt. Every 10,000 subscribers on my road to a hundred thousand subscribers, I'm gonna give away a belt because I love you people out there. So now let's see who Triple H has created. We're gonna start with Big Dog in the house. Like I said, Cody Rhodes. Now, I would argue that this Cody Rhodes is not even a Triple H creation, nor is he a Vince McMahon. The character we see of Cody Rhodes is an AEW creation, just came over. Music and all. The American Nightmare started over there. But since WrestleMania 40, he's been at the top of the main event scene, three title reigns, two movies, Street Fighter and Naked Gun, but I don't know, I don't know. On paper, Cody is the is a star. But when you compare the star of Cody Rhodes to the star of John Cena, The Rock, then it's like, no, not really. You know, it's like it's like Cody Rhodes is a red dwarf, a dying, a dying star at that, if we were to compare them. I would say Cody Rhodes would be a really good B list top champion, kind of like, you know, a Chris Jericho from back in the day, or or a Kurt Angle. You know, guys who could be positioned in the top for a couple months, but not the face of the company. So we'll give Triple H Cody Rhodes, okay? But what about Jay Uso? Yeez. Hell yeah, I love it. Fire. Internet. Now, Jay Uso was part of the bloodline storyline, right? And the bloodline, I'm not giving Triple H. That's Vince McMahon. It just ended on Triple H's watch. Jey Uso was he was the right hand man during the bloodline, but then Triple H took him, put the rocket ship on him, and tried to and made him win the Royal Rumble and gave him a world championship run. I would say though that Jey Uso was not, is a fail when it comes to star making. Right hand man Jay Uso was very good and great and three-dimensional, but when Triple H took Jey Uso, he made him into a one-hit wonder of just saying Yeet, right? And while for a moment, for a moment, Jey Uso was the biggest thing in WWE, but the new car smell has worn off. And unless you're actually in the arena to yeet with him, then his character is not really that good. When he's only yeeting. At one point, winning the Royal Rumble in the beginning of 2025, then fast forwarding to the end of 2025, where he is now regulated to commercial breaks with his tag team partner slash brother, who literally teamed up with them because, in his words, I'm paraphrasing, you are not winning, you are losing. So big brother had to step in. Yeah, J Uso, not a bigger star for with under the Triple H regime. Triple H tried, but ultimately was a fail. Damien Priest. So you show men around for a living under here's a dude who won the world title under Triple H. He must be a bona fide star. Nope, because after that title reign, he pretty much just floundered in a very lackluster feud with Finn Balor, where he proceeded to destroy the judgment day almost single-handedly. He got into a feud with Gunther, making Gunther suddenly scared. It's almost like after his world title reign, anything, anything that Damien Priest went into, Triple H tried so hard to get Damien Priest over that it ruined everything he touched. And now he is the tag team champion with our truth. Triple H tried really hard, but failed. Damien Priest, honestly, I feel was a bigger deal before Triple H when he was the leader of the judgment day and fighting Bad Buddy. Partner in crime, Rhea Ripley. Mummy! Mummy! Mama! Mama! What? I'll say Rhea Ripley, I do believe is a crossover star. Not to the levels of Sable. You might be thinking to yourself, wait, is that a joke? No, I'm not. Sable was actually Sable was actually a huge, huge crossover star. I did not like her involvement in WWE, but I'm not gonna lie, Stable was she was a star. She she drew bigger ratings than almost anyone, with the exception of Stone Cold Steve Austin. And that said, Rhea Ripley, I do feel she's a star. Drake has called her his muse. Now the internet doesn't really like her. I don't really like her as a character, but whatever the case may be, fine. But I would say, is she is she a triple H creation? I think I think Vince McMahon put a lot of stock in her too. So that's debatable. That's debatable. I will say this Triple H didn't ruin her. How about that? Triple H didn't ruin her, and he's given her lots and lots of opportunity. I would probably, I would probably credit her more to Triple H at this point, though. Let's talk to Wyatt's. The Wyatt's had one of the most memorable entrances, reappearances of all time. They literally massacred the entire backstage. And then nothing, literally nothing. And they have been feuding right now, currently in a feud with the MFTs, Solistic Co's MFTs, since John Cena and Logan Paul were feuding. For eight months, the Wyats have been in a lackluster feud, just going back and forth right now for a lantern. And that's literally about it. Every once in a while, they'll stand across the ring and stare someone down, and that's it. So the Wyats, they they are not intimidating, they are not nothing, they are just they are just there. So the Wyatt is a fail. Please hear me out. When I say the Wyatt's are a fail, I am not saying anything on the wrestlers themselves. I am saying that they are a failure because of the creative that Triple H is in charge of. Liv Morgan, on the other hand, what you guys think I'm not about, I will say is a success. With Rhea Ripley, there was the asterisk of is this is Rhea Ripley a Vince McMahon creation or a triple H creation where she's at right now on the card. But Liv Morgan, I feel, has 100% benefited from Triple H. She did win the title under Vince McMahon. However, she was never really, she didn't really feel like a top champion. Right now, after 2025, after WrestleMania 40, Liv Morgan has really stepped up and she feels that she will be forever in the main event. I will give Triple H, I will give Triple H's creative Liv Morgan, 100%. Great job there. What about the Motor City Machine Guns? It fits perfectly. MCMG, Merry Christmas Machine Guns. Thank you, God. Motor City Machine Guns had lots. Motor City Machine Guns, total fail, total fail. They uh they instantly came into WWE, I think on their third match, they won the tag team titles. So Triple H went all in. He went all in. And at that time, the tag team division on SmackDown was red hot. So, like, but what have they done lately? They they really haven't done nothing. They haven't done nothing. This was a prominent team in the TNA tag team division. I remember them from way back when, and they were amazing and awesome. And they are still amazing and awesome, but but their presentation in WWE is boring and lame, and Triple H has Creative has failed them. Creative has failed them. They are definitely not stars. Hindsight's 2020, but like if they have an opportunity to not resign and get to AEW, take it. Let's talk Dominic Mysterio, and I'm gonna say he is a fail. Let's get these gander. All right, can you bring me no whack nuggets now? And not because he's not awesome and great, it's because I feel he should be bigger. I feel he should be even bigger of a star than he is right now. When he won at WrestleMania and he ran back and the crowd was just exploding because they wanted to cheer Dominic Mysterio. I'm like, boy, howdy, they should have gone all in on him. It's like, yeah, he still has his great moments here and there, but like I don't understand why this guy's not getting more TV time and we're doing more with them. Like Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was always good in WCW. Eddie Guerrero was just fine, one of the best, one of the best characters on WCW TV. But but in WWE, Vince allowed Eddie Guerrero even more room to grow. And once he had the opportunity to actually get him in that main event scene, well, he did. And Eddie became a bigger star. And that's what I see with Dominic Mysterio. I don't know why this guy's not a bigger star. I'm gonna say it's still a fail because he should be bigger. Well, what about Oba Femi or Trick Williams, Javon Evans? Now, more than ever, we do need to coexist. I'm done for whatever gang. Hey, look. Oba. It is what it is. Jury's still out. Their characters right now came from NXT. Now, I'll say this. I will I will count them. I will count them because Triple H oversees NXT, even though that's Shawn Michaels' baby. However, it's too early to tell. It's too early to tell. All Triple H has to do is not screw up with these three because they're so good. Off to a great start, but it's too early to credit Triple H with making these stars. Braun Breaker, on the other hand. You guys are 100 years old. Come on! He's had plenty of time to make champion and he hasn't. Braun Breaker had all the upside in the world coming off his NXT run. And honestly, two years later, he feels like he feels like not much, not much forward movement has happened at all. Now he is injured, but even before the injury, it was like, I don't know, I mean, he was he was in main events, but he was losing them. It's almost like Triple H went out of his way to make Braun Breaker not be a star. The MFTs as a whole, that's a fail. But what about Solo? Solo was positioned as a big deal going into WrestleMania 40. He was he was pretty much the the heir to the tribal chiefdom when Roman left. And for about for about a year, Solo was like the main antagonist of WWE. He was the big bad. But the year after that, he's been pretty much nothing. He's been pretty much nothing. He's had moments where they allow him to shine, his personality to shine, and it's like, oh, that's that's a solo I like to see. And then poof, gone. I mentioned it earlier. He's been fighting over a lantern for about eight months now. So yeah, solo, they had an opportunity to make this guy the next big, big deal. For about one year, they did, and then off a cliff. So solo sequoa. Unfortunately, no, not big deal. Jacob Fatu, he had one of the best, one of the best entrance entrances into WWE debuts. He beat up, he beat up Randy Orton, Kevin Owens, and Cody Rhodes. I'll give I'll give Jacob Fatu to Triple H. Even though I kind of have a feeling that the Jacob Fatou we see on air is Jacob Fatu's personality. That's how he was in the indies too. So like Triple H just didn't screw him up. That said, okay, fine. You know what? For a moment, he was almost called Caesar Fatu. So, you know, good job. Good job letting him keep his name. I'll give Jacob Fatu to Triple H. Another person that Triple H didn't screw up was Danhausen. Danhausen's doing great right now. He's definitely not a Triple H creation, but I will give Triple H credit in letting Danhausen be Danhausen. Because if you tried to, if you tried to sanitize Danhausen or make him too too corporate, it probably would ruin the act. So kudos Triple H for just standing out of Danhausen's way. I mean, smart too, because otherwise you'd have been cursed. EOS Guy, success story. She was such a non-success story in WWE before that she was fired. Triple H brought her back, and I'll tell you, even personally speaking, I did not really care for EOS Guy. I didn't hate her, but I didn't like her. I had the worst thing you could have for a wrestler, apathy. But now I actually do like EOS guy, and and most of the audience absolutely loves EOS guy. So I would say that she is a way bigger deal with Triple H than before Triple H. Carmelo Hayes, nah, I don't think so. I feel like they have really not done anything with Carmelo. I think he is a guy. You could have based your whole mid-card, the whole mid-card division could have been centered around Carmelo Hayes. And heck, who knows? Maybe he could have even got into that main event scene. But like, I feel we have dropped the ball time and time again with him. He's been on the main roster for two years, and his feuds have been this best out of seven with Andrade. His that whole feud was like, I wrestle better than you. And then the next feud was what? The Miz. The Miz took him under his wing, the Miz disappeared for three months, and then when he comes back, they have a blow-off match on a random SmackDown that most people probably don't remember. And then his only other storyline was, I'm gonna win the US title, and then literally just have matches, so it wasn't even really a storyline. And then he loses the title weeks before WrestleMania. So, like we haven't really done much with Carmelo Hayes. I mean, yeah, he's gotten matches here and there, but at the end of the day, we need stories and character development. That's the big thing when it comes to WWE, and we haven't really given it to him. So unfortunately, I don't feel that uh Carmelo's Hayes is a star under Triple H when he has all the tools that are that he needs to become one. The guy who beat him, Sami Zayn, definitely in a better spot under Triple H than than Vince McMahon. To be fair, Vince did push Sami Zayn a lot. He did push Sami Zayn a lot, but I feel the presentation's a little different and that Sammy's like just way stronger. Now that said, when it comes to his place in the hearts of fans, I don't think Sammy's in a better spot. I think fans are kind of sick and tired of Sami Zayn. But but when it comes to like accolades and stuff, he is in a better spot. He's kind of like he's kind of like the mid-card Cody Rhodes. You know, the fans are kind of getting sick of the act, but Triple H is still gonna give him all the accolades. Kit Wilson, you know, he's doing great right now. It's still a little early to tell. We'll see where Kit Wilson is in a year from now. But if Kit Wilson can be in the exact same spot he is right now in the in a year, then I'll say he's a success story. He would be a really good, he would be like, he'd be like a Santino Morella, a Santino Morella's success story. Someone not not winning the big top championship, but just someone you fondly remember when you look back and be like, oh yeah, that Kit Wilson, that Santino, that R-Truth. Those were funny guys. Jade Cargill, I feel, has taken a step back under Triple H. When she walked into WWE, she felt like a big deal, a big star. And now she feels like she doesn't even know how to how to handle a feud. So it's like, okay, so Jade has definitely lost star power under Triple H, even though she's champion. Gunther. Gunther under Triple H. Yeah, I guess, I guess you can credit him. But but the problem with Gunther is he's the one that ended all those careers. And now, and now, what, three weeks going into WrestleMania? He doesn't, he hasn't, he's been not part of the build at all. So that's a head scratcher. But at the end of the day, I guess he is gonna be. I would constitute him as a star. I think even when Vince was in charge, I bet, I bet Gunther was Triple H's project. Chelsea Green, give Triple H her. Her star power is great and amazing. She was fired under Vince McMahon, brought back under Triple H. I think Triple H just stood out of her way and let her go. That's one of the good things about Triple H. Sometimes he can he can uh pinpoint really talented people and just let and get out of their way. And so I'll give I'll give him Chelsea Green, even though he pretty much is making her a star by just letting her by letting her be a star as opposed to telling her what to do. Grande Americano, that is 100% Triple H. So great job there. That is a great mid-card act. Now, granted, Grande Americano was wrestling, you know, way back in the day, 70s, 80s, 90s, but Triple H had the foresight to bring him back, to bring him back and let him introduce himself to a whole new generation. So I 100% will give credit of the El Grande Americano character, even the OG one. That's a that's a triple H one. That's a that's a great creation right there. And then the final one. Naomi. I think that she was she was great and brilliant. She she got pregnant in September, I believe, November, September. And unfortunately, unfortunately for us fans, but fortunately for her and her family, she had to go and have a baby. So, like, but she had been in WWE for so long. For her to reinvent herself into such a great character, to me, to me, that was a that was a star-making character. So I'll give I'll give Triple H credit for Naomi. How he got that Naomi to the the the camera in front of the audience because she was so brilliant, she was so awesome. Naomi had a star making year under Triple H. So I'll give him I'll give him that. All right, those are the stars or not stars that Triple H has made or not made. Boys, girls, in the comments below, let me know if I missed any. Who did I say was a star? Naomi, Liv Morgan, and what grande Americano? Those are your those are Triple H's big time stars. All right, boys, all right, girls. You're a star. See ya bye.