Triple H Says WWE Have 'No Backup' For Their Top Stars

There has often been a 'next man up' mentality within professional wrestling, especially when injuries occur, but WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque doesn't believe the company has backups to their top stars in Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, CM Punk, and Roman Reigns.

During an interview for WWE with Joe Tessitore, Triple H noted there had been a lot of surprises as part of booking WrestleMania 42.

"Oh, there's a lot of them, because sometimes it's surprises of the way that you think a crowd is going to react to something and they react different, Sometimes it's - when you're putting stuff together in your mind, Dusty Rhodes used to say this all the time to me, 'In your mind, you see things 100 per cent. If you can get 70 cent of that to come out on the screen, that's a grand slam.' In your mind, you picture it perfect. In execution, it's different. There's a million variables that can change it that bring it down a notch, or two, or three, or 20, or whatever it is, right? So things turn out differently. Fans begin to react to things differently. What you thought you had locked in four months ago is not the path anymore. The path has changed," Triple H said.

"The other thing about our business is, unlike a sport, and as bad as it is, if you lose your quarterback, if you lose your first-string offensive lineman, if you lose your star center or star guard in the NBA, you have a second-string guy to back them up. And you hope that those second-string guys are pretty good. There is no backup Cody Rhodes. There is no backup Randy Orton. There is no backup Roman Reigns. There's no backup CM Punk. It's different because it's the individual attraction."

Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton with Pat McAfee in Orton's corner will main event night one of WrestleMania 42. Night two of WrestleMania 42 will be headlined by CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns.

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