{"id":333552,"date":"2026-05-12T19:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=333552"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:50:29","slug":"wwe-hofer-eric-bischoff-thinks-triple-h-deserves-a-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/wwe-hofer-eric-bischoff-thinks-triple-h-deserves-a-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE HOFer Eric Bischoff Thinks Triple H Deserves A Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul “Triple H” Levesque recently re-signed with WWE, which Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff has backed, stating that the Chief Content Officer even deserves a raise.<\/p>\n

Bischoff,\u00a0speaking on his “83 Weeks<\/a>” podcast, touched on reports that TKO executives interfered with WWE storylines, with many alleging\u00a0<\/span>they undermined Paul Levesque and his creative team in doing so. Bischoff feels this warrants a raise for Levesque and said his latest deal is just not a surprise.<\/p>\n

“Definitely not surprised that he got one other one [contract]. And hopefully he got a raise because I feel, if anything, the last couple of WrestleManias where you’ve got had interference from individuals who really don’t understand the audience in addition to they think they do,” he said.<\/p>\n

Bischoff acknowledged that Ari Emanuel and his team at TKO have vast experience within the entertainment business, but argued that the professional wrestling audience is entirely different from other entertainment audiences.<\/p>\n

“And I do not mean that with disrespect because obviously Ari Emanuel and the people around him have forgotten more about entertainment and connecting with the audience than yours truly will ever experience. That being said,\u00a0he doesn’t have as much experience with the wrestling audience, which is a really unique audience,” Bischoff added. “From the surface, especially should you\u00a0think, you understand, how things work in entertainment, and also you do, based in your experience in feature movies and tv and other types of entertainment, you do have an instinct. Unfortunately, that instinct doesn’t completely apply to the wrestling audience.”<\/p>\n

TKO executive Mark Shapiro had earlier this yr claimed that TKO has full creative control of WWE, in response to questions on celebrity involvement at WrestleMania 42, which was widely criticized by fans.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n

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Paul “Triple H” Levesque recently re-signed with WWE, which Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff has backed, stating that the Chief Content Officer even deserves a raise. Bischoff,\u00a0speaking on his “83 Weeks” podcast, touched on reports that TKO executives interfered with WWE storylines, with many alleging\u00a0they undermined Paul Levesque and his creative team in doing so. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[21169,8307,1232,23711,3484,575,1661,6221],"class_list":["post-333552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-bischoff","tag-deserves","tag-eric","tag-hofer","tag-raise","tag-thinks","tag-triple","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333555,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333552\/revisions\/333555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}