Paul Heyman, the Special Council of The WWE Universal Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns recently revealed that he would have worked with The Baddest Woman in the Planet Ronda Rousey as her manager in WWE. Ronda Rousey is an excellent in ring worker but she needed a manager to say her things. Heyman was the first choice at a point.
Paul Heyman also revealed how he started to work with Roman Reigns in the first place as his “Special Council” and also discussed becoming “The Advocate” of the Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnar during his second run. Speaking on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin, Heyman said;
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“So Vince [McMahon] removes me as Executive Director in June of 2020,” Heyman began. “I thought I had a bunch of months left on my contract, and I was gonna ride it out, and we’ll see where we go from there.” Said the Wiseman who is currently working as the Special Council of Roman Reigns.
“There were limited options in my agreement as to whom WWE could put me with. When I had the leverage, I wrote that in,” Heyman continued. “Because we had reached a point — the cache of being Brock Lesnar’s advocate — that anybody else you put me with could either make them instantly a star, or you’re watering me down and ultimately hurting the other person because they don’t belong with me.”
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“One of the few names on this list was Roman Reigns,” he said. “Another was Brock Lesnar obviously. Another was Ronda Rousey.” Said Paul Heyman while expressing his desire to work beside the Baddes Women of the Planet addressing the potential dream team up.
“Ronda Rousey was having a baby. Brock Lesnar wasn’t coming back with Saudi [Arabia] being down. Kind of left Roman Reigns in there,” Heyman continued. Putting on his best Mr. McMahon impression, he added, “So Vince calls me in the middle of August, and he says, ‘We’re gonna take you back into television.'”
“I said ‘Okay, what do you got in mind?'” he said. “And he says, ‘I’m gonna put you with somebody…’ And I’m trying to tip-toe into a delicate situation here where I’m about to butt heads with him … And he goes, ‘I’m envisioning Roman Reigns with Paul Heyman.’ And I’m thinking ‘Oh my god, he’s gonna pull the trigger on this.'”
credit “Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin”
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription