Paul Heyman has a featured interview up with Yahoo.com promoting Sunday’s WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view in Toronto, Ontario. Heyman also discussed his failed attempt to get fans to boo Brock Lesnar heading into his bout with Goldberg, the prospect of UFC fighter Conor McGregor stepping into a WWE ring, if the locker room would embrace him, and more.
With regards to McGregor, who made some pretty viscous comments about WWE and pro wrestlers back in August, Heyman insists that it really doesn’t matter if the locker room is open to the idea.
“Who cares if the locker room would embrace Conor McGregor. If Conor McGregor can be a revenue driver for WWE, if he can sell network subscriptions or if he can sell thousands and tens of thousands of tickets, if he can move millions of T-shirts, who cares if anybody in the locker room likes it or doesn’t like it. They just have to learn how to accept it or draw more money than Conor McGregor so they have the leverage to say, “I don’t want that guy in my locker room.” Until they can drive the revenue a Conor McGregor drives, then perhaps they should get used to the fact that people like that will always get offers to come in and, as the old saying goes, draw money.”
The advocate for the “Beast Incarnate” also mentioned that taking a spear from the legendary Goldberg does not, in fact, get easier the older he gets. “On the record, I’m quite pissed off about it,” he added.
When asked about a possible WWE feud between McGregor and his client Brock Lesnar, two of the all-time biggest draws in MMA history, Heyman said he doesn’t see it as a likely scenario for WrestleMania.
“…the size difference is just so great. Conor McGregor fights Nate Diaz and Nate Diaz looks like a giant against him. Nate Diaz is 170 pounds. Brock Lesnar is 280-295 pounds.” He continued, “None of this is a knock on Conor McGregor, but you would have to find someone for him to work with that presents a believable picture so that when Conor McGregor does here in WWE what he does in the UFC, which is throw that almost invisible left hand and knock people out, it has credibility attached to it.”
