It is no secret that Paul Heyman has been known to get extreme during his time in the professional wrestling industry. That’s why it was no secret that in a new interview with the Sports Media Podcast Heyman revealed that when his other former client, CM Punk got his revenge on him during 2013’s Hell in a Cell pay-per-view event, that also was as real as it possibly could be. Paul Heyman ‘buried’ this WWE diva after texts leak.
During the same interview, Heyman would also discuss when Samoa Joe put him in the Coquina Clutch on the June 5th, 2017 edition of Monday Night Raw. Here, Heyman would reveal that it was his’s instruction for ‘The Samoan Submission Machine’ to choke out him legitimately. This is when Joe was number one contender to the WWE Universal Championship, which was held by Heyman’s client at the time, Brock Lesnar. Credit to Ringside News for the following quote.
“My preparation for physicality is the emotional understanding that this is going to hurt. The beating I took on top of Hell in a Cell from CM Punk was as real as any beating that he took inside the octagon at UFC. Samoa Joe locking me in the Coquina Clutch on Monday Night Raw was as real as anything that anyone else is going to feel in mixed martial arts because I don’t trust my timing and I have no athletic ability. So I prefer, if I’m going to be subject to physicality, bring it.”
“I also have been of the mindset that if you put Paul Heyman in a physical situation, the lure is that the audience is going to say, ‘Okay, this is going to be visceral. This is going to be a fight. This is going to be interesting.’ Because, I’ve watched other people in this role or similar roles in the past, who didn’t want to take the hit. I think the lure, the seduction of Paul Heyman finally getting his ass kicked is that Paul Heyman gets his ass kicked. You sit there and say, as an audience member, ‘Hey, I want to see this.’ It’s why the ratings for Paul Heyman vs. Adam Pearce match on SmackDown did so well.”