History Trivia / PaulHeyman

* OldShame: Never, ever bring up his tenure at Wrestling/{{WCW}} to him.
** When discussing the "Invasion" storyline on 'Inside the Ropes', Heyman admitted that he felt the whole thing turned out awful, and also took his share of the blame for it since he was a member of the creative team developing the angle.

* EnforcedMethodActing: When Wrestling/BrockLesnar beat Wrestling/TheUndertaker's undefeated streak at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'', the only people who knew about the plan were Lesnar, 'Taker, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, Steph, and Wrestling/TripleH. Heyman sliding into the ring and screaming, "Oh my God!" until everyone else was let in on the plan were genuine.

--> '''Dreamer''': “When ECW went out of business I was 29 years old. I had a lot of my money, my parents’ money, trying to float the company. Paul Heyman, who I thought me and him were super tight, he screwed me over big time. He was in the WWE, the whole time. I had turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to WCW. And now was unemployed. I went from a $750,000 offer, and Paul Heyman crying to me, that if I leave ECW, it will go out of business. Meanwhile, he was getting a paycheck from WWE. I don’t begrudge him, but then I did. I was depressed as depressed can be. [...] At Wrestlemania, I was gonna hop the rail and I was gonna whack Paul E. in the back of the head right at the announce table, then I was gonna whack myself. The ultimate martyr, I was gonna hit my pose crack, boom, pull the trigger. Because I was that insane.”

** There's a story that Heyman was offered the booker position in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]], but he was turned down because he wanted creative control and a large share in the company.

* ExecutiveVeto: CM Punk credits Paul Heyman for being allowed to keep his ring name and UsefulNotes/{{straight edge}} gimmick. Other "writers" have revealed one of the plans for Punk was to turn him into a male cheerleader, essentially a [[{{Face}} babyface]] version of [[TheCheerleader The Spirit Squad]]. In fact, according to Heyman himself, he rebuffed numerous repeated memos from the top brass telling him to wind down Punk's storylines and fire him outright. Instead, he said they should fire Punk themselves if they cared so much. It took nine years, and it was only after Punk walked out on the company -- by then, CM Punk was one of their three biggest draws.

* FanNickname: Fans tend to call Heyman "the Walrus" due to his stoutness.

** A pretty dark case of this, but Wrestling/TommyDreamer [[https://wrestletalk.com/news/tommy-dreamer-reveals-he-considered-killing-paul-heyman-and-himself-at-wrestlemania-17/ admitted on his podcast in 2019]] that, in a major fit of depression after the end of ECW, he very briefly considered going to [[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania X7]] with a gun[[note]]This was in Texas pre-9/11, this isn't actually as implausible as it sounds[[/note]] [[MurderSuicide to kill Heyman and then himself]] on live PPV. He was brought out of this thought by finding out that he'd be brought in to WWE in a few months.

* ExecutiveVeto: CM Punk credits Paul Heyman for being allowed to keep his ring name and UsefulNotes/{{straight edge}} gimmick. Other "writers" have revealed one of the plans for Punk was to turn him into a male cheerleader, essentially a [[{{Face}} babyface]] version of [[TheCheerleader The Spirit Squad]]. In fact, according to Heyman himself, he rebuffed numerous repeated memos from the top brass telling him to wind down Punk's storylines and fire him outright, instead saying they should fire Punk themselves if they cared so much. It took nine years, and it was only after Punk walked out on the company -- by then, CM Punk was one of their three biggest draws.

** There's a story that Heyman was offered the booker position in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]], but was turned down because he wanted creative control and a large share in the company.

** After being fired from WCW for the final time in 1993 Paul Heyman had been tapped by a New York radio station to host a drive time talk show and go head-to-head with Creator/HowardStern. The station felt Heyman's edgy style would get ratings and possibly eat into Stern's then-unprecedented listener base. Before Heyman could sign the deal, his old friend Eddie Gilbert called him up and goaded him into doing creative for NWA's the Philadelphia-based promotion: Eastern Championship Wrestling. You already know the rest of the story.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Even when he performed in [=WWE=], Heyman still remained loyal to ECW, and kept promoting it.

** A pretty dark case of this, but Tommy Dreamer admitted in 2019 that in a major fit of depression after the end of ECW he very briefly considered going to WrestleMania X7 with a gun[[note]]This was in Texas pre-9/11, this isn't actually as implausible as it sounds[[/note]] and committing a murder suicide. He was brought out of this thought by finding out that he'd be brought in to WWE in a few months.