A new report has indicated more backstage changes are likely to come in WWE following Road Dogg’s return as Senior Vice President.
News broke that Road Dogg Brian James was back with WWE on the 22nd of August – just over seven months since he was released by the company amid ongoing changes at NXT.
It transpired that the WWE Hall of Famer was taking over from his old on-screen partner Jeff Jarrett as Senior Vice President of Live Events in the company, a role Jarrett had only held for a matter of months.
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer indicated why the change happened and says it is a case of Triple H rebuilding his own team now that he is in charge and more changes are likely to come:
“We’ll be seeing more and more of this stuff as time goes by when it was people that were hired by Vince – Jarrett came in, basically Bruce Prichard brought Jarrett in and convinced Vince McMahon to hire him for the Senior Vice President of Live Events.”
“Vince is no longer in charge and Road Dogg is Triple H’s team so he hired him weeks after Brian James was all mad at Tony Khan for not hiring him. He didn’t do what I’d call the smartest job of a guy wanting to get hired, saying there’s so much bad in [AEW] and I could point it out and it’s like yeah, that’s a great way to get a job, pointing out the company sucks. But it all worked out, he got a job back with WWE so I’m sure he’s happy.”
“It’s a funny thing because – not that this is due to Jarrett at all because the company’s gotten hot – but since his return in May, his department which is house shows has increased greatly, so you’re department went way, way up and you got the boot but that’s the nature of the beast. I think a lot of people who are not Paul Levesque’s people are probably a little bit nervous and there’s gonna be a changing of the guard.”
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