Tag: Paul Heyman
Paul Heyman Explains Why Roman Reigns’ Heel Turn Did Not Happen Until Now
Roman Reigns returned at SummerSlam after being gone before WrestleMania 36 owing to COVID-19 fears. His heel turn finally took place as he won the Universal Title. He is now the Tribal Chief on Friday Night Smackdown and has been working with. Paul Heyman. This has proven to be a huge success for Reigns. Fans…
Paul Heyman Apparently Has New Role In WWE
Paul Heyman was the Executive Director of Monday Night RAW, but he was eventually let go from that position. He was then introduced as the Special Counsel to the Tribal Chief Roman Reigns. Their partnership has been going very well and drawing a lot of positive reception. Now it seems he might have another role…
Miro Says That He Was Promised WrestleMania Main Event By Paul Heyman
Rusev parted ways with WWE which was not a surprise for many fans. He eventually made his way to AEW and seems to have a better time in the company. It seems when he was still working in WWE, he was promised a huge spot by Paul Heyman. Miro spoke on Talk Is Jericho, where he…
Paul Heyman Reveals How He Was Fired From Executive Director Role
Paul Heyman was the Executive Director of Monday Night RAW. His goal was to push the newer generation of Superstars and gave them more spotlight, but Vince McMahon did not see it that way. Heyman brought in Superstars who were not focused on the main roster and helped push them. While it was working for…
Roman Reigns Explains How Paul Heyman Helps Him Off-Screen
Roman Reigns made his return to WWE as a heel and quickly became the top star of Smackdown. He won the Universal Title and has been dominant as a heel champion. He successfully retained his title at WWE Clash Of Champions against Jey Uso. It seems partnering up with Paul Heyman has certainly helped Reigns.…
RVD Talks Who He Wants To Be Inducted By Into WWE Hall Of Fame
As reported earlier, Rob Van Dam left Impact Wrestling along with Katie Forbes. He was not signed to the company and now has officially become a free agent. He recently spoke to The Dropkick Podcast, where among other things, the topic of the WWE Hall Of Fame was brought into the conversation. RVD revealed by…
AEW’s Next World Champ, Mysterio’s Timetable, Heyman’s Current Role, Is Raw Superstar’s Career Over?
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Retribution Takes Step Forward, Frustration In WWE, Is Raw Really Falling Apart?, How Close Major WWE Star Was From Going To AEW
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Paul Heyman And AJ Styles Will Have To Coexist On SmackDown
Paul Heyman and AJ Styles are reunited once against on WWE Friday Night SmackDown. Heyman officially returned to the brand on last week’s episode when Roman Reigns was revealed as his latest client. The development is interesting considering the history between Styles and Heyman. Styles considers Heyman to be a liar due to his role…
Roman Reigns To Be SmackDown’s Top Heel With Paul Heyman
Roman Reigns is now aligned with Paul Heyman following both of them returning to SmackDown on this week’s episode. The current plan is for Reigns to be booked as the top heel on SmackDown as the newest “Paul Heyman Guy,” per a report by PWInsider. Braun Strowman will also be a heel on the blue…
Roman Reigns Aligns With Paul Heyman?
Roman Reigns apparently has a new manager. During the closing scene of SmackDown, Roman Reigns signed the contract for the triple threat No Holds Barred Universal Championship match at Payback. Reigns said he’ll win back the Universal Title, and that’s not a prediction, it’s a spoiler. The camera panned to none other than Paul Heyman…
Vince McMahon On Low Ratings, AEW & NXT Rebounding, Heyman’s Firing
Vince McMahon took questions from investors during a conference call held on Thursday after WWE released their second quarter earnings. While the majority of these calls are to discuss aspects that influence the company’s stock price (i.e. business details more useful for stockholders and analysts most of you could not care less about), there were…
Why AJ Styles Hates Paul Heyman, SummerSlam Main Event Outcome, AEW Talent Going To WWE, Backlash For Orton
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Gallows & Anderson Tell All On WWE Releases, Scrapped AEW Plans & More
Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson are officially Impact Wrestling-bound following their WWE releases in April. Their journey to this point has been interesting to say the least, and they revealed their sides of the story on their Talk’N Shop podcast. When their WWE deals came up last year, they almost signed with AEW, but also…
AJ Styles Calls Paul Heyman A “Bold-Faced Liar” Regarding Raw Rumors
It seems AJ Styles did not have a good relationship with former Raw Executive Director Paul Heyman during his time on the red brand. During a recent Mixer stream, AJ Styles denied the rumors that he was being bullied in the locker room, which was one of the reported reasons for why he was moved…
WWE Announces Consolidation Of Raw & SmackDown Creative Teams Under Bruce Prichard
Through a brief statement on WWE.com, the company announced on Thursday that Bruce Prichard will now oversee both the Raw and SmackDown creative teams. Below is the official statement: “In an effort to streamline our creative writing process for television, we have consolidated both teams from Raw and SmackDown into one group, led by Bruce…
Backstage News On “Anything Can Happen” At WWE Live Events
The idea for Randy Orton to do an injury angle against AJ Styles at last Sunday’s WWE live event in Hershey, PA was from Paul Heyman. The thinking was with live event attendance down, one of the ways to draw fans back to non-televised events is to show them that anything can happen at them.…
Lana Responds To Critics
Lana took to Twitter a few hours ago to address the threats, hatred, and displeasure shown towards both her and Liv Morgan since last night. Here are the Tweets: For people growing up in religious homes, different parts of the world & cultures you have no idea how complicated it can get when it comes…
Paul Heyman Trying To Build Up Certain Stars On WWE RAW
Paul Heyman has been pushing for some talent on RAW to get more wins, which is the reason behind recent squash matches. The thinking is the stars that need built up need to get over as much as possible, so they’re scheduling short (one-two minute) matches to accomplish that. So the next time you see…
Reports On Which Brand Bray Wyatt Will End Up On
WrestleVotes revealed on Tuesday that FOX executives are very interested in having “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt on Friday Night SmackDown. Despite that, it’s being reported that Executive Director Paul Heyman is a huge Wyatt fan, which will likely keep Wyatt on Raw. Something nobody can deny: a person who works for FOX has directly told…
The Beast Returns! Issues Challenge!
The Beast, Brock Lesnar, returned to WWE on Smackdown Live tonight with The New Day in the ring. During a stare down from the ramp, Kofi would direct the Xavier and Big E from the ring and leave him in the ring by himself. Brock and Paul Heyman would enter the ring where Heyman would…
Vince McMahon & Other Executives Absent From Raw, Heyman In Charge
ProWrestlingSheet.com is reporting that Vince McMahon, Kevin Dunn and Triple H were all absent from this week’s Raw in Knoxville, TN. As a result, Executive Director Paul Heyman ran the show, while VP of Global Television production Michael Mansury filled in for Dunn. There’s no word on why exactly McMahon and Dunn were absent, but…
Backstage News On Who Paul Heyman Wants To Push To The Top
Paul Heyman wants to give Cedric Alexander a slow push to the top of the ladder, according to Dave Meltzer. Alexander is one of several RAW superstars who Heyman wants to give a slow push to the top rung. As noted here on WrestlePages.com last month, Alexander has spoken publicly about Heyman working with him…
WWE RAW Star On Why Paul Heyman Is Perfect Guy To ‘Push The Envelope’
Baron Corbin recently commented on his relationship with Paul Heyman and why he’s the perfect guy to help “push the envelope of RAW” in a new interview with SportingNews.com. Here’s a quote: “Paul and I have a very good working relationship because he’s not afraid to tell me if I’m doing something wrong,” Corbin said.…
Backstage News On New Number One Contenders On RAW
It was Paul Heyman’s idea to pair Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler together and put them over during the eight-team Tag Team Turmoil match on last week’s Monday Night RAW, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The match made Roode and Ziggler the number one contenders for the WWE RAW Tag Team Titles, as they’ll…
Paul Heyman Overseeing Heel Turn On RAW; Orton Segment Inspired By Roddy Piper
– Paul Heyman was largely responsible for Sasha Banks’ promo on this week’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, reports PWTorch. Heyman has been very involved with the direction of Sasha’s heel character and has overseen a lot of her work recently. – Speaking of promos, Randy Orton reading a letter that was allegedly given…
Rumor: Vince McMahon To Relinquish WWE Creative Control
As previously reported, Vince McMahon was not in charge at Monday’s episode of WWE RAW because he was preparing for today’s XFL announcements. There could be more of this coming, with the new rumor suggesting Vince is set to slowly relinquish creative control. Tom Colohue reports Vince will not be giving up all responsibility but…
Slow WWE Ticket Sales, Who Heyman Is High Up On, 205 Live Ending?, Rock Gets Married
– We reported earlier here on WrestlePages.com that WWE has announced The Undertaker for the September 10th episode of SmackDown from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The reason WWE added him to the show is at least in part due to slow ticket sales. WWE will be taping both RAW and SmackDown from…
Paul Heyman Moves Title Match From SummerSlam To RAW, PPV Plans Changing
Paul Heyman, who is the WWE RAW Executive Director, made the call to change the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship on RAW this week as opposed to SummerSlam, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Details as to why Heyman wanted to move the Fatal Four-Way Elimination Match from the pay-per-view to free TV are unknown…