Paul Heyman was asked recently if he would like to start his own podcast in the future. Nowadays, a lot of former wrestlers and wrestling personnel are doing it and all of them are becoming even more famous for their podcasts. Even some of the active wrestlers are doing it as well.
Booker T has started his own podcast, Stone Cold Steve Austin has his Broken Skull podcast, Arn Anderson is going through his Arn podcast, Renee Young’s podcast became pretty famous too, even Chris Jericho has one.
Paul Heyman To Start His Own Podcast?
These podcasts become instant hits because of the kayfabe-breaking interviews of the active wrestlers. WWE is famous for maintaining kayfabe even outside the shows too. There are instances where they have released wrestlers for not maintaining kayfabe. For example, Serena Deeb in 2010.
Paul Heyman is famous for maintaining kayfabe outside and if he starts his own podcast that would be really exciting. Speaking of podcasts so much, Paul Heyman himself appeared on Richard Deitsch’s Sports Media podcast where he was asked about the same. He said;
A podcast has always been of interest to me since podcasts first burst upon the scene. I’d been very close to doing a podcast twice. Once was actually with Ariel Helwani, where — and this was before I returned to WWE in 2012 where we would discuss, A, mixed martial arts, B, sports-entertainment slash professional wrestling, C, all other things in sports and media and there was another discussion that I had about an ‘all items on the table’ podcast a few years ago where I was very close to taking the offer and I felt at the time I was selling my services too early in the podcast game, let the market mature and let other people continue to build the forum known as a podcast, platform known as a podcast so that it reaches a maximum value and then get into the market place.
I would be happy to do a podcast, whether it’d be looking back on the disruptive force that was ECW, whether it is a contemporary podcast about modern day sports, entertainment or whatever the discussion may be. But now, it’s a matter of the financial consideration bluntly, because it is such a huge market and it’s continuing to grow at a rapid pace and so my market value increases by the day. I don’t wanna sell short.
Why would I want to? And also because it is not just an investment of time. Time is not my concern. It is an emotional investment, because if I do a podcast, I want to blow other podcasts off the map. I want it to be the undisputed best podcast in the world. I want the discussion to be, ‘What’s the best podcast? Well, other than Paul Heyman’s, here are the contenders to be considered number one.’
The statement from Paul Heyman has been pretty interesting. He has already announced a potential competition with the others in the market and his entry into this new trend would be amazing and pretty interesting as well.
(H/T and transcribed by Post Wrestling)