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  • Heyman is the mad scientist of wrestling and WWE needs him

  • this dude is an idiot, he dosent listen, i swear he's a microchip/human prototype

  • @YOUcanCALLmeCRACK they will never hire him cause hes a free thinker! and wont talked down to by russo or bischoff

  • @YOUcanCALLmeCRACK No WWE Needs Heyman

  • wwe's thumb is not on the pulse anymore

  • @YOUcanCALLmeCRACK Yes. If that happens, both TNA and WWE are gonna be better. WWE will never get better until they feel that another company is really comin to challenge them. Exactly like the late 90's WCW.

  • Unless, of course, they're the parents of new WWE kiddies! :-D God, we're getting old!

  • People like to blame the crappy television product on the PG rating...it has nothing to do with the rating, people...it's the lack of talent in the ring and in the production of the show...the camera people, the wrestlers, the suits in the office are all different, younger, and/or inexperienced...PG rating is only to get the new generation of fans, obviously. In a couple years, you'll proabably get another Attitude-esque Era...The Attitude Era fans are no longer the biggest paying part of WWE.

  • @maxpower789z Yes, but we put them on the map and help WWE destroy WCW. When they went "PG", we felt betrayed and alienated.

  • Heyman Heyman!!!! Great interview

  • I'm calling Paul E. T-Keg from now on.

  • Paul E is perhaps the greatest wrestling mind of all time not to mention the best to his talent day in and day out and if he owned WWE it would to this day be like the attitude era where as now its a shit promotion.

    CENA V EDGE

    TRIPLE H VS RANDY

    RANDY VS CENA

    TRIPLE H VS CENA

    TRIPLE H VS EDGE

    TAKE YOUR PICK........

    FUCKKKKKKKIN!!!!!

  • if you want GREAT wrestling watch the AJPW matches for the 90's especially the Kawada Vs. Misawa match from '94 the best decade of wrestling no other company EVER could reproduce

  • @rayrayALA either way the young talent gets jobbed to death till they either get fired or quite

  • Michael Landsberg has the most douchebag face I have ever seen, ever.

  • Heyman is a creative genius - Without him all WWE is doing is rehashing storylines from days gone by - Next week Jimmy Valiant will turn on Jay Strongbow and Mr. Fuji will accidently throw salt into Toru Tanakas eyes to save their tag title pmce again.

  • Im definitley a Paul Heyman Guy and so is CM Punk and oh yeah, hes the WWE champion.

  • To quote D-Von Dudley: "Paul Heyman is the Evil Genius of Wrestling" Lets be honest, he DID come up with the first Lesbian storyline in wrestling after all! :-D

  • @NoelWesley ... And THANK GOD for that lol

  • IF YOU WATCHED THE FIRST PART, IM STILL A PAUL HEYMAN GUY :)

  • He sounds like Marlin from Finding Nemo

  • @vidsbyvinny Albert Brooks. And good call.

  • I agree, we should invade Mexico.

  • OMG michael needs to shut the fuck up and let paul e fucking talk.

  • Is it me or does the WWE creative sound a lot like Saturday Night Live?

  • LANDSBERG IS THE MAN

    Let's all suck his dick

  • @steelinferno88 Okay.

  • 1999 = the best year of wrestling ever. EVER.

  • I could hear Paul E talk all day because he is a true straight shooter

  • at the beginning i thought landsberg was going to say "he ran ecw into the ground" lol

  • I wish Paul had a financial advisor, maybe then ECW would've lasted longer.

  • ugh i cant stand these interviews because the fucking interviewer or whatever never lets the guys finish their damn sentences like that interview undertaker did when he was american badass that fugger interviewing him cut him off damn near every minute.

  • If i were in charge i'd hire him back in a heart beat

  • @wwef6lr and let him get his ways. Vince doesn't believe his ideas are credible, even when veteran wrestlers agree with his ideas. Vince is just full of himself and thinks he can polish a turd.

  • Wow, didn't know that we had a Prime Minister in Canada? Weak Paul, weakkkk.

  • @TheSletourneau Dude are you really that surprised americans don't know anything outside their own borders but stereotypes. I mean most of them think that New Zealand is either a state of Australia or is some where north of Canada.

  • @TheSletourneau

    Well you have a Parliamentary System, so he doesn't know the dynamics around who advises the PM or whatever.

  • @TheSletourneau its canada, who cares?

  • vince mcmahon is a cock sucker.

  • now they really need to push the envelope

  • no wonder the rock , stone cold , kurt angle and so on leaving wwe , cuz that triple h ass is invovled now and im sure he wants to make em look like sissies , ew stupid

  • The thing with these interviews is they get dated. At the time Paul was 100% correct with what he said. Now i do think Triple H has more of an input and some of what does happen isnt verrified with Vince. Vince doesnt take all the blame now you often hear about him ripping into someone for what they did. The PG Era is a lot to do with Lindas campaign but adults dont buy as much merchandise as kids will make their parents buy. So with no major stars left Vince is covering ratings loss with merch

  • people the reason why they dont push the envolope is because LINDA was running for senate...now that she has lost i wud bet money that they bout to get real pushy.....

  • @Hooah1984

    I wouldn't say that. Kids are exploitable. He's raking in the cash. And after I put my white hot anger towards that aside I realized it isn't so bad, and that maybe my most fond memories were just nostalgia.

  • @CityofAngelsAGC Well he actually is because in a way,when the real ECW was still around,Vince kinda helped out ECW get some publicity,like when some ECW guys invaded WWF. He prefers Vince more than Eric Bischoff,since Bischoff would try to slam down ECW and take away most of his talented wrestlers while Vince would honestly,have no real problem with them. lol

  • Hey,man is lying because he was a WWE employee at the time. He's so watered down in this interview and thats sad bc he's a great shoot interviewer. This is the oppisite of a shoot, I bet Vince wrote him a script. My ass he doesnt know how much power HHH and Stephine had at that time, he knew but was gagged by the WWE.

  • @CityofAngelsAGC he probably is like that in public. if someone bought my company from my then revive it then fires me then turns it into trash i would hate that person

  • Man, Paul gives some good answers.

  • landsberg needs to shut up and let heyman talk!

  • I would love to be in a room with the writers listening to their ideas and brainstorming.

  • Landsberg is a loudmouth and a jerkoff.

  • @Jeff051176 i hate this jewish man

  • @stndrds79 you're not a fan of good wrestling then. Look how much WWE has gone down hill since they fired Heyman. It's a joke, as Jim Cornette Said "Paul Heyman could shit a better wrestling show in his sleep than Bicshoff and Russo could if they worked for ten years." The same applies to Vince and the rest of the WWE "writters"

  • @orichimaru244 TNA IS BETTER THAN WWE yet,but heyman should be the revolution

  • HEYMAN PLUS TNA =REVOLUTION

  • I know he can be a bit of a snake oil salesman at times but I'd love to see Heyman back in wrestling. He's the only creative mind in the business I trust.

  • 2:58 true dat, let ur wrestlers work their minds.

  • i remember when the last 5 to 10 minutes of Raw would be the best part of the show, and nowadays like tonite for instance, it was some bullshit with edge and orton, that wasnt even shocking or cool....it was just complete crap, im such a fan of wrestling but yet i rarely watch it anymore....it really actually saddens me, for some reason i feel this hopelessness for the mainstream wrestling companys, i guess they will have to hit rockbottom before they become good again

  • @josh692004 TNA

  • @josh692004 thats why i don't really watch anymore either, i'd rather follow the "indie" promotions.

  • @jmchaos813 I watch either the indies or Japanese promotions and occasionally CMLL

  • @josh692004 tna rulez

  • shut up michael landsberg!!!

  • most intelligent interview i´ve seen/heard in a long time.

    very different paul than his on-screen character from 2001.

  • The interviewer should shut up and let the guest talk more.

  • Well the shows suck now,

    And they have for awhile

    So I guess I know who to blame

  • as much as people dont want to hear it. its a very true statement thats been made...vince mcmahon MORE THAN deserves all the credit for his flagship shows doin well, because like paul said, "nothin happens on the show without vince blessin it"

    vince blesses somethin that boosts the ratings, then hes a dam genius to be honest

  • Paul E should go to TNA and fued with Bishof

  • That will never happen.

  • Paul should do some indie appearences.

  • Paul changed the game! Bottom line.

  • Say what you want but Paul E. knows his shit.

  • @Society619

    this man needs to be president for the usa. the man is a mad scientist

  • @Society619

    i don't think anyone that knows anything about wrestling doubts that.. i mean heres a guy that ran a wrestling company doing promos in his mother's basement to outselling the top wrestling promotions (WWE, WCW) during their pay per views...

  • The WWE should bring back Heyman

    i gurantee it would get better and more interesting

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  • wut year was all this tapped

  • sometime around the time Stone Cold walked out. probably in 2004

  • i remember that Heyman wanted big show to be the first one to be eliminated at december to dismember and wanted RVD and Punk to be the final ones to fight over the belt and vince got mad because the rest of the wrestlers actually liked the idea. so vince just to stroke his ego changed the results just to prove that he was in charge. stephanie actually begged Heyman to stay and she also has the offer on the table for him if he ever wants to comeback. but he wont

  • yeah paul wanted Cm punk Vs. RVD as a fued

  • Landsberg has no idea how to just ask a question. It's "Here's the question ____: and here's my big fat idea as to why you should answer a certain way that nobody gives a fuck about, but it's my show and I have to talk more ____"

  • I think we all bash HHH too much about his politics..I think Heyman got it spot on,Vince is the one who makes final decision.

    I m not saying that HHH doesn't influence on storylines but to what extent,we don't know!

  • as much as this guy talks u would think hes the one getting interviewed

  • Please goto TNA Paul!

  • @JokerKlownX Sorry but Paul Heyman is not surrounding himself with that Bullshit of a company especially with Hogan there? Forget it!!!!

  • this bastard doesn't stop interrupting the guests of the show.very talkative.

  • Cos american interviewers love the sound of their own voice more.

  • this muthafucka is canadian i guess

  • My bad, just realised he is from Canada not the US.

  • One of the main reasons (IMO) why WWE is so shitty overall right now, is because (Like Jim Cornette said once), there is a bunch of Hollywood writers who are in charge of WWE now.

    The Wrestling Business (mainstream) most be the only entretainment venture where the fans actually know more than the people inside...

  • ever since this man left the company, the wwe has become unwatchable.

  • @alber12111 Right.

  • @ xrikkitikkix... Actually, Shane is gonna start his own MMA promotion pretty soon. He knows there more of a market for the future of MMA then wrestling.

  • if Shane starts his own MMA company and it takes off Vince is gonna kick himself because Paul Heyman actually suggested the idea to vince of starting a real fighting MMA division in the new ECW wich would include true fighters including RVD, Kurt Angle, Bobby Lashly and Cm Punk. but vince said that he is in the sports entertainment business and not the athletic commissioned sports.

  • Vince also knew that if he did the switch, the athletes would be contracted instead of just being independent contractors. And that alone was reason enough for him to say no. Especially with all the roids and drugs that are apart of the industry, the athletic commission would've had a field day with Vince. I think he's happy with the position he is in just abusing the wrestlers.

  • i wish paul heyman would return to write for wwe it would be a lot more interesting

  • na i think the best thing paul can do is to go to TNA i think

  • i wish i could see more of this interviewer because he is very good and a quick thinker and he seems to know his guests really well before he does a show.

  • Except he loves to interupt his guests alot.

  • This Interviewer sucks Ass. He wont let speak Paul Heyman out even if his damn Life would depend on!

  • Landsberg should shut up and let Paul talk. He actually knows what he's talking about.

  • I agree, he just asks stupid questions and assumes things and Paul pretty much goes against everything he is saying

  • (Continued from the bottom post)

    They bother to bring DX back and what the fuck are they doing now? Advertising? Awhile ago, Kofi destroyed Randy Orton's nascar... that's the kind of shit that DX should be doing to Legacy. It's almost a disaster to watch. My younger brother just got into watching Raw and Smackdown and I'm like shaking my head every week when I look at what they're doing.

  • I remember in the Monday Night Wars DVD Eddie Guerrero said(about WCW during it's decline) that "You didn't know what month it was on our show." because it was the same crap day in and day out.

    WWE feels a lot like that and has been that way for awhile. Evolution lasted way too long without change, Legacy is way overdue for a shake-up of some sort(the younger guys are sporadically showing signs of rebellion), Chris Jericho has the same script every night, it's just very monotonous.

  • THE LATE 90s ERA WERE THE BEST ERA OF ALL TIME

  • Vince won't take the blame. He basically forced Heyman to leave because Vince didn't want to be blamed for the shitfest known as December To Dismember.

  • ive always thouight this guy should write a book. hed be perfect. his storylines were sweet. all the shocking twists would get his book a million buys

  • paul seems a very honest guy, and i dont see much ego considering this is the man who revolutionised extreme wrestling

  • Heyman can write a fuckin storyline dude. He knew how to shock the audience with his plot twisting storylines. Today these writers are garbage.

  • Vince/ Stephanie needs to rehire him and put him on the team of writers. They have no idea what to look for in a great writer.

  • Like if Heyman wrote the storyline for what's goin between Cena and Orton now, the finish at the PPV match would be Ted Dibiase costing Orton the WWE title or Dibiase running in and pinning Orton for the title while he's knocked out.

  • Yea it's about time this whole 'Legacy' storyline ended, it's getting really old and repetitive. They need to quit beating a dead horse.

  • Exactly and Dibiase is supposed to go baby soon because of his movie.

  • Cena and DiBiase, "The Marines". OMG WUT A GRATE TAG TEM!

    But seriously, as Paul said in part one, I think being in a movie makes you a better heel. You can say "Oh, I'm a movie star, you're just some scum in the 17th row" kinda stuff.

  • Paul is a very great guy,,,very truthful,,,good talker and not full of himself,,,I miss Paul.

  • Paul seems like a cool guy off camera.

  • IMO the way WWE is going now they need Paul Heyman's input. I know he wont come back, but WWE needs his ideas

  • that idiot host. he thinks he is the reason why we watch this..

  • is paul heyman rich?

  • wat?

  • think he should be in tna??

  • Landsberg talks too much.

  • Wayyy too much. He talks as if he knows more about the WWE and it's history more than the poeple who have been directly involved with the entire company for years.

  • actually i think landsberg is kinda forshadowing the pg era,he knows that board of directors will finally destroy the product

  • Dixie Carter should just shut up & bring Paul to TNA, he can only help them, and I would tune in to see him once or twice, but TNA sucks (in my opinion) & Paul is just great, I hope you see where i'm going with this!

  • agreeed!

  • plus i think its fair to say that none of the guys in the locker room have to worry bout paul sleeping with their wives or ex wives, unlike the last guy who ran tna, but heyman has said lately that he is happy doing his own thing right now PLUS you have to remember cornette still works at tna , and the idea of having cornette, russo and heyman all in the same room could lead to violence *lol*

  • That's true, I wonder if there's a way to keep them apart and still work normally, doubt it!

  • keep cornette in kentucky, russo in new york, and paul in whatever spot he's dwelling in that week, and use nothign but emails cell phones and fax machines sent down to orlando lol

  • Perfect!

  • better yet, why not play to each guy's strength, let heyman handle the angles, russo can handle all the promo (god knows alex shelly needs all the help of god) and let cornette work with the younger guys on how to do a match and tell a story, that way you help make sure that each guy doesnt step on the other's toe

  • That still wouldn't send WWE packin', because TNA never will, but maybe, and this is a big maybe, TNA will start being worth watching, but I doubt it!

  • russo was a fuckin idiot that fucked up ecw

  • ah russo never worked with ecw, from 95-01 heyman handled the book, then when vince brought it back in 2006, stephanie handled ecw

  • that shit now is not ecw just the name

  • russo never worked with ecw moron.

    why the fuck do these idiots who know shit about nothing have an opinion?

  • no i meant

    WCW

    he fucked up wcw

  • to say russo fucked up wcw would be like saying a deck fire really fucked up the titanic just when it was bout to sink

  • no its more like if you had cancer but the doctor said you might have a chance at living if theres a good enough formula to work for the surgery

    but than all of the sudden someone comes around and stabs and kills an than theres no chance

    your screwed alltogether

  • LOL I like that analogy better

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  • thank you captain obvious. now go use your cliches somewhere else where people will be amused by them. you should try remedial classes.

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  • I figure Heyman would be doing that, what withi his creative mind. Hell after his departure, WWE started getting writing talent from former employees of nickolodean and freddy prinze. Says a lot about how they value quality over quantity.

  • What people need to do is leave nostalgia out the door. Honestly I think both WWE and TNA are going to go head to head, its not really happening. Economy is tough and neither has a real solution. Indies have proven to be very versatile with ROH with its athletic work rate, Chikara and PWG with characters and comedy, DGUSA with their own brand of action and entertainment and even Japanese feds with Hustle and DDT with their definition of sports entertainment. Its good and its accessible.

  • TNA does everything ass backwards and they'll never be competition for WWE if they keep doing the same shit they're doing. I don't need to hear them bash the WWE in every promo they cut every week on their show. You never see WWE bash TNA because they aren't stupid. TNA doesn't even push their own talent they hire WWE rejects past their prime and give em the title.

  • WWE doesn't need to diss TNA because what would they get out of it? TNA hasn't gotten gotten anything but cheap pop from WWE bashing. But it isn't like one is a more complete product over another. My point is WWE isn't the best in wrestling anymore. TNA more times than ever has dropped the ball. There is enjoyable wrestling everywhere, more than you know and all it takes is to check out stuff away from the TV.

  • I myself think NJPW has the best matches, WWE sets the standard for wrestling because they're the most popular. TNA is a little kid shit minor league system who doesn't get that you need to push your established stars. AJ Styles should be the face of that company, instead they give the title to guys like Mic Foley who's fucking retired. They only got 7,000 buys for their last PPV that's pathetic. Plus they rip off WWE all the time, Abyss is a Kane/Mankind ripoff. Black Reign was, etc

  • If he wasn't an employee of WWE at the time, he would have spilled all the beans about HHH and Stephanie's backstage politics!

  • I heard TNA Sacrifice drew 7000 buys, don't know if its true but if it is, ouch. TNA ratings have been stagnant for about 2-3 years. And if the went head to head with WWE they would probably drop.

    It would be good for wrestling if TNA could emerge as a serious threat to WWE because it would make Vince step it up a notch, but if you think TNA is any position to challenge WWE right now you are dreaming. Thing is, TNA has the talent, but they just don't have any creative direction.

  • I wonder if its in the contracts of talent to talk about Vince McMahon as if he's god during interviews.

  • im more with tna than wwe. to me wwe is pg while tna in my opinion is pg13

  • Agreed, WWE is too watered down these days. TNA should go to war.

  • That doesn't make the product necessarily better.

  • agreed

  • was this in 2007?

  • 2002

  • is paul heyman still working for the wwe?

  • no...apparently he didnt like how the ecw brand was being marketed

  • I dont blame him.... The new ECW's best work EVER was the EXTREME Elimination Chamber. Besides that ECW is not even considered a full on brand to me, I see it more like Heat or Velocity. ECW's revival was Vince's silent final blow to the original ECW. The day Tommy Dreamer leaves, I stop watching ECW. Afterall he truely is the heart of OECW (ORIGINAL EXTREME Championship Wrestling)

  • tna is now better but wwe attitide area is the best

  • Bruce Pritchard is a loser kissass piece of shit. Ripping the Ultimate Warrior! That leech never amounted to anything and is jealous of the Warrior.

  • hes just a terrible interviewer. he looks at the camera. he keeps on talking and asking questions. hes like charlie rose

  • i like how he talked about steph

  • Heyman is a wrestling god and if i heard he was booking TNA, i would tune in every fuckin week!!

  • TNA has better wrestling than wwe at this moment... and I love WWE!

    is it me or does Paul Heyman sound like a total sellout in this particular interview?