🎧 WWE's Prez and Triple H on Global Ambition, the Netflix Deal & Bad Bunny
Nick Khan and Paul Levesque explain the inner workings of their sports phenom
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Live from Las Vegas! Exec editor Alison Brower headed into the ring with WWE president Nick Khan, and chief content officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque for The Ankler’s Business of Entertainment program at NAB Show, where the sports execs revealed why Netflix was strategically the right home for RAW, its flagship weekly showcase; how Triple H’s writers create distinctive and memorable characters and stories across shows (and platforms); what draws talent from the late Betty White (“a badass”) to Bad Bunny into the ring; and the physical and mental trials in auditions that reveal who can be a megastar. As Triple H puts it, “You cannot teach charisma.” Khan and Levesque also preview WrestleMania 41, going down April 19-20 in Vegas. “It’s our Super Bowl,” says Khan. But minutes after it’s over, “a writer’s assistant will walk in and put Monday Night RAW in front of me,” Levesque adds. “We are the story that never ends.”