Brian Soscia recently interviewed
Paul Heyman. Here are some highlights.
If Paul Heyman ran WWE, what would
he do differently:
“I’d fire the McMahons immediately.”
What was it he first saw in CM Punk: “How could you look at CM Punk and
not think that he has the it factor? I don’t think I’m any great visionary or
genius because I saw something in CM Punk, I think everyone else is a stupid
schmuck for not seeing it in CM Punk. They’re blind. I mean truly, in the land
of the blind the one eyed man is king and if you can’t spot that CM Punk is
magic from the moment he walks in the door then you’re reading a playbook from
an antiquated writer.”
His first wrestling memory: “As a fan my first memory was
Argentina Apollo and Luis Martinez against the Love Brothers in Eddie Einhorn’s
IWA in 1975.”
What drew him into wrestling: “The very next week [following the
Apollo and Martinez vs. Love Brothers match] they were replaced on television
by Vince McMahon’s father’s television show and I saw Superstar Billy Graham do
one interview and I was blown away by it. I realized that that man does not
work for a living. I said I don’t want to work for a living either. I want to
talk s*** on TV like Superstar Billy Graham. That’s what I get to do for a
living now.”
Where he gained his promo ability
from: “My father
was a personal injury attorney in the Bronx. I can bulls*** with the best of
them.”
Who or what his greatest ECW
creation was: “The
ECW audience itself. The audience was the biggest star. We played to them and
for a reason. They were the greatest performers we had. I mean, who else would
have thought about actually chanting the name of the promotion? We didn’t come
up with that. They did. Who else thought of then screaming out the name of the
company and literally fighting our battles for us? We didn’t ask them to do it.
They volunteered to. We didn’t get on pay per view on our own merits. We got on
pay per view because the audience got us on. The greatest creation of ECW was
the ECW audience.”
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