Braun Strowman Takes Dig At Triple H's WWE Booking Following Cody Rhodes' Defence

Former WWE talent Braun Strowman has taken a dig at Triple H's booking, noting the company's TV ratings run counter to Cody Rhodes' claim on the Ariel Helwani Show that no one currently could be a better head booker of WWE than Paul Levesque.

While discussing a backstage outburst he had ahead of WrestleMania 42 on the Ariel Helwani Show, Rhodes said:

"If you want a job in the wrestling space, nobody has a harder job than Triple H right now. There's never been a booker in the history of the business that has just been beloved and revered the entire time. Nobody has a harder job and no one can do that job better than he can do it."

Braun Strowman took a shot at Triple H, though, replying to a tweet about Cody's interview with, "Ratings say otherwise lol."

After a fan argued the ratings decline was due to the FIFA World Cup, Strowman noted, "Wasn't a problem for my show lol." Strowman's show - Everything on the Menu with Braun Strowman - actually airs immediately after Friday Night SmackDown on the USA Network, and the show's second season is currently being broadcast.

Over a seven-week period from the beginning of May until mid-June, estimates from Wrestlenomics for Monday Night Raw's ratings suggest the show's total viewership in the United States is down year-on-year since 2024.

While the show was on USA Network in the United States, Raw over the seven-week period averaged 1.66 million total viewers. That same period in 2025 averaged 1.57 million, according to Wrestlenomics, and 1.4 million in 2026.

For SmackDown, which airs on USA Network in the United States, the Friday night series is down 15 per cent in total viewers for Q2 2026 compared to Q2 2025 and down 29 per cent in the key 18-49 demographic.

Braun Strowman had two runs with WWE, first from 2013 until 2021. Strowman returned to the company in 2022 but was released in May 2025. Strowman is a one-time Universal Champion, one-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time Raw Tag Team Champion, and one-time Money in the Bank Ladder Match winner.

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