89 Facts About Paul Heyman

Paul Heyman was born on September 11,1965 and is an American professional wrestling manager, former promoter, photographer, and executive.

Paul Heyman is currently signed to WWE, where he is appearing on the SmackDown brand as the "special counsel" and the "wise man" for Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns.

Paul Heyman was the CEO and known as the creative force behind the Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion from 1993 until its closure in 2001.

Paul Heyman is the co-owner of the Looking4Larry Agency in New York City, and was personally named one of Advertising Age Top 100 Global Marketers.

In WWE, Paul Heyman has managed or has served as manager for a record six world champions: The Big Show, Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam, CM Punk, Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns.

Paul Heyman has competed sporadically in matches, including the WWE Championship main event of the 2002 Rebellion pay-per-view.

Paul Heyman was paid by the company for several of his photographs.

Paul Heyman attended SUNY Purchase and worked on-air as an opinionated, controversial host at SUNY's radio station and the WARY-FM New York radio station for Westchester Community College; in 1985, at the age of 19, he became a photographer, then a producer and promoter for the New York City nightclub Studio 54.

Paul Heyman decided he wanted to work in professional wrestling when he saw Vince McMahon interviewing Superstar Billy Graham.

Paul Heyman began as a photographer when he was 13 and bought his own photo lab to take photos of pro wrestlers in New York.

Paul Heyman published his own newsletter, The Wrestling Times Magazine, and wrote for third-party wrestling publications such as Pro Wrestling Illustrated.

In 1985, Paul Heyman was hired by New York Studio 54 as a photographer.

Paul Heyman called Jim Crockett, who sent Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes and Magnum T A The show featured Bam Bam Bigelow's debut and an award to Flair.

At the urging of Bigelow, Paul Heyman made his managerial debut on January 2,1987, initially appearing on the Northeast independent circuit before moving to a more high-profile stint with Championship Wrestling from Florida in February 1987.

The Paul E Dangerously gimmick was an extension of Heyman's own personality: a brash New Yorker with a yuppie attitude, often seen holding a mobile phone, which was occasionally used as a "foreign object".

Paul Heyman joined with Eddie Gilbert and his wife and valet Missy Hyatt and together they feuded with Lawler before moving on to the Alabama-based Continental Wrestling Federation.

Behind the scenes, Gilbert was the head booker of the promotion, and Paul Heyman became his assistant.

Paul Heyman was the head booker for Windy City Wrestling in Chicago and started developing a reputation as being an innovative television writer and producer.

In 1988, Paul Heyman jumped to Jim Crockett Promotions, where Dangerously again managed the Original Midnight Express in a feud with the new Midnight Express and their manager, Jim Cornette, as well as managing "Mean" Mark Callous.

Paul Heyman settled into the role of an announcer, joining Jim Ross to call the matches on WTBS' World Championship Wrestling and other programming.

Paul Heyman admitted he learned more working with Ross than from his previous mentors.

In 1991, WCW needed to re-structure its "heels", so Paul Heyman returned to the role of spokesman and ringside manager as the manager of the Dangerous Alliance, with Rick Rude as the centerpiece of the stable.

Paul Heyman led Rude to the United States title and the Anderson-Eaton tag team to the Tag Team titles.

Disagreement arose as Crockett wanted to build a traditional wrestling brand, while Paul Heyman believed traditional wrestling was antiquated and a new take on the genre was needed.

Paul Heyman came in to help Gilbert teach the younger wrestlers how to perform on interviews, but Gilbert's erratic behavior became too much for Gordon, who had a major falling out with Gilbert right before the UltraClash event on September 18,1993.

From that point forward, Paul Heyman was in charge of the creative direction of the company.

The proposed outcome was the current ECW champion Shane Douglas becoming champion, but Paul Heyman conspired with Douglas and Gordon without the knowledge of NWA president Dennis Coralluzzo to have Douglas publicly denounce the NWA and its "tradition" after winning the tournament.

Paul Heyman encouraged wrestlers to express their true feelings about the WWF, the NWA, and WCW.

In May 1995, Paul Heyman bought out Gordon and became sole owner of ECW.

Paul Heyman acknowledged how an effort to put ECW on the USA Network failed after USA Network President Steven Chau became aware of an email Vince McMahon sent which pressured him and other network executives to put ECW on the USA Network.

Paul Heyman supposedly had never told his wrestlers that the company was on its dying legs and was unable to pay them for a while.

Paul Heyman became a commentator for the WWF on Raw Is War, replacing Jerry Lawler who had quit due to a dispute when his wife The Kat was fired in February 2001.

Paul Heyman was "fired" following the 2001 Survivor Series when the Alliance lost a winner takes all match that marked the end of the invasion angle.

Paul Heyman was replaced on Raw commentary by the returning Jerry Lawler.

Paul Heyman began mentoring Lesnar, and McMahon decided to make Paul Heyman Lesnar's manager.

Paul Heyman helped Lesnar capture the WWE Undisputed Championship 126 days after Lesnar's main roster debut when Lesnar beat The Rock at SummerSlam to become the youngest WWE Undisputed Champion at the time.

At the Survivor Series, Paul Heyman turned on Lesnar and allied himself with Big Show, while helping him win the title from Lesnar in the process.

Paul Heyman returned to television to assume Stephanie McMahon's on-camera role as General Manager.

On July 10,2005, it was reported that Paul Heyman took over the positions of head booker and writer in Ohio Valley Wrestling, a developmental territory maintained by WWE.

On May 23,2005, Paul Heyman returned in a segment with Vince McMahon and Eric Bischoff announcing ECW One Night Stand, with Paul Heyman in charge.

Paul Heyman was in charge of the new brand on-camera but had minimal creative input off-camera as well.

Paul Heyman predicted that Van Dam would defeat John Cena at ECW One Night Stand for the WWE Championship and then declare himself the new ECW World Heavyweight Champion.

Paul Heyman was immediately pulled from ECW's creative team after the altercation.

Paul Heyman was against the decision of Bobby Lashley being booked to win the ECW World Championship, and instead wanted to have CM Punk win it, a decision McMahon disliked.

McMahon and Paul Heyman clashed in front of several members of the writing team on McMahon's corporate jet the day after the pay-per-view.

Paul Heyman thought that Big Show should be eliminated in the Elimination Chamber match by CM Punk via submission, to push the rising star.

Behind the scenes, Paul Heyman had no interest at first in returning to WWE, as he still felt he held bad blood with a lot of the staff, but reconsidered after Lesnar requested his presence after a lackluster promo with John Laurinaitis.

Later that month, Paul Heyman stated that Brock Lesnar would answer Triple H's challenge himself at Raw 1000.

Paul Heyman began accompanying Punk to the ring for his matches and promos.

Around this time, Paul Heyman quietly cut off his signature ponytail.

At Payback, Paul Heyman coached Axel during his match with Wade Barrett and The Miz for the Intercontinental Championship with Axel winning the match and the title.

Paul Heyman accompanied Punk to the ring later in the show for his match with Chris Jericho.

The next week on Raw, Punk demanded answers from Paul Heyman, who swore he did not ask Lesnar to attack him.

Paul Heyman announced that he would team with Axel against The Prime Time Players the next week, again to Punk's disapproval.

At Money in the Bank, Paul Heyman betrayed CM Punk, costing him his chance at the Money in the Bank briefcase by hitting him three times with a ladder, knocking Punk off the ladder when he was ascending.

Paul Heyman later challenged Punk to a 1-on-1 match for the next week's Raw, which Punk accepted.

The plan was foiled when Paul Heyman dared CM Punk to come into the ring and accept the challenge as CM Punk, who had anticipated the trap and hid under the ring, emerged and attacked Lesnar.

Paul Heyman was then booked to team with Axel against CM Punk in an elimination handicap match at Night of Champions.

Paul Heyman tried various times to get out of the match, which caused General Manager Brad Maddox to make the match into a no disqualification elimination handicap match.

Paul Heyman stood by Lesnar as he feuded with Big Show and The Undertaker in the first four months of 2014.

Paul Heyman then came out and told Triple H to implement "Plan C" which was the return of Lesnar, who would have a match against Cena at SummerSlam.

At the Royal Rumble, Paul Heyman was at ringside when Lesnar retained his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Cena and Seth Rollins.

At WrestleMania 31 Paul Heyman was at ringside when Lesnar defended his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against the 2015 Royal Rumble winner Roman Reigns, but Lesnar was unsuccessful as Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase and made the match a Triple Threat match.

At SummerSlam, Paul Heyman was at ringside when the match between Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker ended in controversy; the bell was rung as The Undertaker tapped out, but the referee did not see it.

At Hell in a Cell, Paul Heyman was present when Lesnar defeated Undertaker in the rematch, ending their feud.

Paul Heyman returned with Lesnar on the January 11,2016 Raw, and was ringside with Lesnar for the Royal Rumble.

Paul Heyman accompanied Lesnar to the ring at WrestleMania 32 with Lesnar defeating Dean Ambrose in a No Holds Barred Street Fight.

On July 19 at the 2016 WWE draft, Lesnar and Paul Heyman were drafted to the Raw brand.

Paul Heyman was speared by Goldberg and later taken by ambulance to a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut.

On July 16,2018, episode of Raw, Paul Heyman interrupted Angle, who was about to strip Lesnar, and stated that Lesnar would hold on to the championship for however long he pleases.

Two weeks later on the August 13,2018 episode of Raw, Paul Heyman revealed it was all a ruse as both Paul Heyman and Lesnar ambushed Reigns.

Paul Heyman would appear in a segment backstage the Raw after SummerSlam to invoke Lesnar's rematch clause against Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship at Hell in a Cell, but the rematch was denied by Kurt Angle.

However, at Hell in a Cell, Paul Heyman appeared as Lesnar interfered with the main event match between Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman.

The next day, Paul Heyman appeared on Raw, setting up a triple threat match at Crown Jewel between Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, and Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship.

At WrestleMania 35, Paul Heyman came out just after the opening segment, demanding that Seth Rollins fights his client to start off the main card.

In June 2019, WWE announced that Paul Heyman would be the executive director of Raw.

Paul Heyman appeared on SmackDown due to Lesnar being drafted to the brand in the 2019 WWE Draft in October, but shortly thereafter, Lesnar returned to Raw.

On June 11,2020, it was reported that Paul Heyman had been removed from the executive director position of Raw, in an effort to streamline both the Raw and SmackDown writing teams into one group being led by Bruce Prichard.

However, Paul Heyman was expected to maintain his on-screen role as the advocate for Brock Lesnar.

Paul Heyman continued to represent Lesnar up to WrestleMania 36, when Drew McIntyre defeated him for the WWE Championship in quick fashion, at a fan-less event, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The reunion was short-lived, as three weeks later at the Royal Rumble event, Paul Heyman betrayed Lesnar by handing Reigns the WWE Championship belt to attack Lesnar, allowing Bobby Lashley to win the title from him in the process and re-aligning him with Reigns.

Paul Heyman is widely regarded as one of the greatest orators in professional wrestling history.

Paul Heyman was a really good antagonist because sometimes the best antagonists are the villains that say things that you know are true but you just don't want to hear them.

Paul Heyman had the ability to tell his version of the truth, [he was] plausible.

Paul Heyman is the co-founder of the award-winning New York City firm The Looking4Larry Agency.

Paul Heyman worked with Brock Lesnar, collaborating with him on Lesnar's autobiography, Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination, and Survival.

In February 1993, Paul Heyman filed a lawsuit against WCW alleging wrongful termination and ethnic discrimination.

Outside the ring, Paul Heyman is a film enthusiast citing Leon: The Professional and Angels with Dirty Faces as his favorite films.

Paul Heyman has said he's a great admirer of Henry Rollins, describing him as "one of the most underrated social commentators out there".