Paul Heyman

Paul Heyman ( born September 11, 1965 in Scarsdale, New York) is a wrestling managers, promoters and television commentator. He became known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling mid-1990, which he led in the U.S. by innovative ideas to nationwide fame.

Currently, Heyman is in the WWE under contract.

Career

Heyman made ​​his debut on 18 March 1985 North East Independent Circuit. After that, he worked for various organizations, such as Florida Championship Wrestling, Continental Wrestling Association and the American Wrestling Association.

NWA World Championship Wrestling

In 1988, Heyman began for the new promotion NWA World Championship Wrestling to work, which was operated by Ted Turner. He took over the role of manager of the Original Midnight Express there. After that, he also worked as a commentator alongside Jim Ross. After a short break, Heyman, the manager of the team Dangerous Alliance, which consisted of Bobby Eaton, Rick Rude, Arn Anderson, Steve Austin and Larry Zbyszko in 1991. The Dangerous Alliance dominated the WCW and had their biggest feud programs with Sting, Ricky Steamboat, Nikita Koloff, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes and the Steiner Brothers ( Scott and Rick Steiner). End of 1992, Heyman left in a dispute with the then chief booker Eric Bischoff WCW.

Extreme Championship Wrestling

He was then hired by NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling as Booker in 1993. Especially Heyman and Shane Douglas in 1994 were responsible for ensuring that the ECW from the National Wrestling Alliance resigned and renamed it Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Tod Gordon sold ECW to Paul Heyman in 1996. Under Heymans line was the organization into one of the most popular wrestling promotions. Heyman coined by ECW hardcore wrestling and superstars such as Shane Douglas, Tommy Dreamer, Raven, The Sandman, Cactus Jack, Terry Funk, Sabu, Mikey Whipwreck and Taz and later Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko and Rey Mysterio. Despite the great success of the promotion developed into a financial failure and was forced to declare bankruptcy in 2001.

World Wrestling Entertainment

Following the bankruptcy Heyman went to World Wrestling Entertainment. There he was active as a commentator of RAW and November 2001. Besides, he was also the founder of ECW Stables, which together joined the alliance with the guided Shane McMahon WCW Group later.

In March 2002 he was appointed as manager, that is, used as ring companion of Brock Lesnar. This he helped inter alia, to Undisputed Championship. Then Heyman and Lesnar were separated. Both denied a Steel Cage match that Lesnar won.

Heyman was then used as general manager of the WWE Smackdown show. With the WWE Draft Lottery on 22 March 2004, he moved to RAW, but he did not for Eric Bischoff, whom he described as one of the causes of the downfall of ECW, work and left the WWE. During the year 2004, he was reinstated on Smackdown as manager of the Dudley Boyz ( D-Von Dudley and Bubba Ray Dudley ) and Heidenreich in the shows.

In June 2005, Heyman was involved in the original than just one-time WWE Großveranstlatung ( PPV) ECW One Night Stand. He went there again in the role of a significant person in charge of ECW on and continued after the success of the pay- per-views with Vince McMahon by, also in 2006 ECW One Night Stand conduct.

Extreme Championship Wrestling ( Brand)

In June 2006, WWE announced that there will be a comeback of ECW as a weekly show, but this time. Rather than own show, but as the roster of the WWE The first show then was already on 13 June, two days after the PPV ECW One Night Stand, instead. Heyman From then sold to the public as General Manager of ECW.

In August 2006, Heyman won an " Extreme Rules " match against Sabu, after Big Show and Hardcore Holly had intervened in his favor. This led to the break between Heyman and Sabu and Rob Van Dam.

After a dispute with the owner of the WWE, Vince McMahon, the interpretation of the new ECW WWE roster, Paul Heyman was on 3 December 2006, after the big event December to Dismember, on leave. Then Stephanie McMahon had offered him to take over the management of the WWE Development League Ohio Valley Wrestling. But Heyman had now the pleasure in active wrestling business largely lost, so that he ultimately turned down the lucrative offer and announced early in September 2007, his WWE contract.

In an interview with the British newspaper The Sun on February 4, 2008 Heyman explained the reasons for his leave of absence: So was the wrestling opinion between Vince McMahon and give it a fundamentally differ. In his opinion, different views were an asset in the wrestling business, but Vince McMahon finally felt legitimate reviews as a personal attack. So then both sides have argued for a leave of absence.

WWE

In the issue on 7 May 2012 Heyman returned at WWE Raw Brock Lesnar as a representative to the WWE television back then feuded until SummerSlam with him against Triple H. At this time he was also the manager of CM Punk; this cooperation was terminated at the big event Money in the Bank in 2013 and led to a feud against this until November 2013. During this time, Heyman also served as Manager of Brock Lesnar, Curtis Axel and Ryback. The business relationship to latter two ended on the same date as the feud with CM Punk.

Others

• 2002 Heyman played a role as a sports announcer in the movie Rollerball.

• He is the owner of a marketing company called Looking 4 Larry.

• After his dismissal Heyman tried to invest in MMA and take over with a consortium of the MMA promotion Strikeforce ( a rival league to the UFC), but failed it.

• Since 18 February 2008, Heyman brings out an Internet section called Heyman Hustle, which is led by him in the form of a video blog. This is seen including The Sun.

• Heyman 2010 negotiated with the president of TNA, Dixie Carter, via an entry in their promotion. However, the deal failed due to different views on power relations Heymans.