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WHY HASN'T ANYONE ELSE HIRED HEYMAN AS A BOOKER, TOUGHEST MAN EVER IN WRESTLING AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2018-03-24 10:00:00

I have been a fan for many years and I think that Paul Heyman is an incredible booker. He keeps up with the times and gets a lot out of talent.  ECW was supremely fun to watch and go to a house show.  Smackdown Flourished under Heyman. Why hasn’t TNA or some other organization just flat pay Paul Heyman to run it?  Get money backers and get Paul up and running as the guy.  Seems a win-win situation there.

The easy answer is that Heyman is under contract and paid a lot of money by WWE for his role as Brock Lesnar’s advocate and has his production company’s projects that take up a lot of his time. 

The longer form answer is that I don’t know that he would be interested in putting in the type of time and effort that it would require to run the creative side of a wrestling company, especially when he’s also raising two children.   Heyman did have conversations with Dixie Carter back when she was in control of TNA, but she didn’t want to give him the freedom that he felt he needed to make something of a run there. 

As far as why someone else hasn’t tried to hire him, I don’t think Heyman is going to listen to an offer from anyone that’s not going to try and spend a lot of money on pro wrestling and he's not going to do anything without a plan.

As a wrestling journalist and probably there best there is right now, has there ever been a time when you wished you were not a wrestling journalist, in order just to sit back and enjoy the show, so you don’t have a worry about writing reports, critiquing matches/promos, not knowing spoilers etc.

Honestly, no.  There are times I am impressed that a promotion has been able to pull something off, and I always see it as a good thing.  I’ve never been upset about learning a spoiler, because I made the decision to do this for a living and that’s part of the decision.

Any chance Mark Henry’s son the Hand is going to induct him in the WWE Hall of Fame?

Yeah, that’s a….no.

Who owns House of Hardcore?

Tommy Dreamer.  That’s not a work.

Who do you think is the toughest man ever in pro wrestling?

The consensus among the tough men in the business is Haku and I’m not going to even try and raise an argument against that.

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