Paul Heyman is known as being not only one of the most influential managers and promoters in the professional wrestling and sports entertainment industry but he is also currently the special counsel for reigning and defending WWE Universal Champion – ‘The Head of the Table’ Roman Reigns. During a recent interview on the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Heyman would discuss a wide variety of topics.
First, the former ECW executive would discuss former All Elite Wrestling EVP and TNT Champion, ‘The American Nightmare’ Cody Rhodes leaving AEW and reportedly going to WWE. Credit to CagesideSeats for all quotes used in this following piece.
“He’s one of the founders of the company, a lot of it is his concept, a lot of the initial phase was on him, and Cody always had the vision to fill the boots of his father, not just in the ring but behind the scenes. And the fact that he didn’t have the level of participation in decision making that he initially probably thought — this is speculation on my end, I never heard this from Cody, but just seeing how the creative end of that company grew — it doesn’t surprise me that at some point he was going to say, ‘Not what I originally envisioned and I want to see what life is like elsewhere.’ So when a founder of a company whose initial vision it was, or part of it was, leaves — that’s always surprising. Knowing what I know, and that’s admittedly very little of the circumstances, not so surprised.”
Elsewhere during the interview, Heyman would discuss current AEW star MJF by saying the below: “I think he’s very credible on the mic. Incredible’s not a compliment. Incredible means he’s not credible. He’s credible. He’s very good at what he does. And he’s very young, so he has a big future ahead of him.”
