Paul Heyman and his partnership with Roman Reigns has been a long time coming.
He became Reigns’ “Wise Man” when he joined up with him in 2020. The pair formed one of the most dominant factions of all time with the Bloodline.
Heyman will be in the corner of Reigns for another WrestleMania main event next month. Reigns is set to defend his world championship against Cody Rhodes on night two. The day before that, he competes huge tag match also involving Seth Rollins and The Rock.
Paul Heyman recently appeared on The Rich Eisen Show to discuss his current work with Roman Reigns. He revealed that he wanted to work with Reigns for years. However, it took until the pandemic to finally work together.
“Well, Roman and I had been talking about working together for many, many years. The timing was never right in that WWE was presenting him as The Big Dog. As the big hero, this WrestleMania main eventer to follow in the steps of John Cena.”
“And I was the advocate for Brock Lesnar, and just leaving that position would have been insane. And I was also then became the executive director of Monday Night Raw. Now the pandemic hits and Brock Lesnar wraps up his time in WWE and he goes off to Saskatchewan to hunt and kill whatever he puts on the family’s dinner plates.”
“The entire landscape of sports and entertainment and sports entertainment was changing, and Roman Reigns had taken time off because his wife had given birth to another set of twin boys, and also because of the pandemic and his health concerns regarding staying safe for his family during this unfathomable health crisis that was gripping the entire world.”
“So in August 2020, when I’m Brock Lesnar-free, I’m no longer the executive director of Raw, so I’m in the ocean of obscurity at that point, and Roman Reigns agrees to come back to WWE if he’s allowed to portray himself and we get a chance to work together. He rescued me from the ocean of obscurity, pulled me onto the island of relevancy with him. We’ve been together ever since.”
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