WWE resumed holding press conferences from the 2022 Clash at the Castle PLE.
At the 2024 Backlash post-show press conference, Lucas Charpiot (a media member) asked Paul “Triple H” Levesque about Drew Gulak’s release, citing Fightful and PWInsider as sources. WWE Chief Content Officer told Charpiot to pick credible sources while answering the question. Later, a WWE PR person allegedly told Charpiot, “What a dumb thing to do.”
Former WWE employee and co-host of The Bump, Matt Camp, talked about WWE press conferences during his “The Wrestling Matt Show.” Camp said that press conferences are part of the show, and the company wants soft questions from media members.
“They want fans in there; they want people that want to be part of the show that don’t want to mess with their part of the show. The press conference is part of the show. Does Triple H come out at the end and go, ‘We set all these –’ yeah, sure, that’s the real part. But they want this just to be an addendum to the end of the show; we wrap things up and we let people speak a little bit and show their excitement, and for the most part, they want softballs, right? That’s why there have been criticism of some of these questions, so I did that a few times. Probably five, six times…
If you wanna be taken seriously and if you wanna just be part of the show, you can be part of the show, because that’s what WWE wants when they get those questions at those shows. They want you to be part of it. They don’t want you to push. I think they could do a better job of prepping Triple H on these so he’s so he’s not saying, ‘Well, I didn’t read the lawsuit’ or, ‘I don’t wanna talk — this guy’s not credible.’ He rips Fightful, and he rips Mike Johnson for not being credible, and then everybody’s getting cheese from Fairfield and Greenwich, Connecticut. If he’s prepped better, that stuff doesn’t happen.”