This August will officially mark three years from the first retirement of Vince McMahon, which allowed Paul Mild, known as Triple H, to take control and become WWE's creative chief.
Although McMahon briefly returned to power in 2023 and it is believed that he was involved in the creative part to some extent, it has been the slight spectacle since then, something that most fans were happy until recently. It has also given enough time for critics to perceive what mildly makes McMahon's “booking” style.
In the last episode of Wrestling Observer RadioDave Meltzer directly addressed this issue, using a promotional segment between CM Punk and Sami Zayn in Rawwhere Punk said that Money in the Bank would win and agreed to give Zayn an opportunity for the title after winning one, as an example of what differentiates McMahon and Mild.
“The difference between Vince and Mild in terms of Booking is that Vince's philosophy is' Do not waste television time by building a fight that you are not going to perform,” said Meltzer. “That is his philosophy. Levesque philosophy is to build a lot of things to make people think it will happen. Because if they see this segment (last night in Raw), they now think that Punk will gain safe.
“Then it is for … I suppose it is to mislead people. And how they have been trained with the idea that 'if you start promoting a fight, we will have it.'
