Paul Heyman
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Paul Heyman (born September 11, 1965 in Scarsdale, New York) is a professional wrestling manager, on-air talent, and former promoter. He is best known for being the creative force behind Extreme Championship Wrestling's rise to prominence in the 1990s.
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Career
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World Championship Wrestling
Paul Heyman debuted in 1986. While a manager in WCW and the AWA, he was known as Paul E. Dangerously, and many in the business still refer to him as "Paul E." In WCW, he was known as the manager of the Dangerous Alliance, made up of Rick Rude, Arn Anderson, Steve Austin, Bobby Eaton and Larry Zbysko. Madusa was his assistant. He was also the manager of the Original Midnight Express, Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose, in the AWA and WCW. They feuded with the Midnight Express, Eaton and Stan Lane, while Heyman feuded with their manager, Jim Cornette.
Extreme Championship Wrestling
Heyman recieved ECW from it's founder and first owner, Todd Gordon, after the ECW Barely Legal Pay-Per-View. The rest of the situation after the PPV is explained here:[[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW#Mass_Transit)] Template:Expandsect
World Wrestling Entertainment
After ECW folded, Heyman became a broadcaster for WWE, alongside Jim Ross on RAW. Later he turned heel by creating the ECW Alliance. He was "fired" but came back to be the manager of Brock Lesnar. He led Brock Lesnar to the Undisputed World Champion when Brock beat The Rock at Summerslam 2002. Heyman then turned on Brock Lesnar and helped Big Show win the title. Just before Brock Lesnar title match against Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania 19, Brock challenged his former manager to a steel cage match. After his defeat, Heyman left for a while, until he later returned to assume the on-camera role of General Manager of the Thursday Night Show SmackDown!, until March 22, 2004, when, according to the storyline, he quit after he was drafted to Eric Bischoff's RAW. Heyman was writing for Smackdown! during its more successful stint in early 2003 and now serves as a road agent for WWE. During 2004, Heyman's on-camera role was managing The Dudley Boyz, Spike Dudley, and Heidenreich.
Heyman's last appearance on SmackDown! saw him sealed in a coffin by The Undertaker during a handicap match which featured Heyman and Heidenreich vs. The Undertaker on January 6, 2005.
ECW One Night Stand
Paul Heyman was heavily involved in the booking and promotion of the June 12, 2005 ECW reunion PPV, ECW One Night Stand. Heyman returned to Raw on May 23, 2005 and confronted former WCW President Eric Bischoff, lauding ECW and criticising WCW.
At One Night Stand, a visibly emotional Heyman came to the ring, got on his knees and bowed to the fans, who chanted "Thank you Paul!" He then cut a shoot promo mocking Bischoff ("You are in our House, Bitch!!"), Edge's offscreen love life ("I've got two words for you... Matt-Freakin'-Hardy!"), and JBL ("The only reason you were WWE Champion for a year was because Triple H didn't want to work Tuesdays!" [SmackDown! is taped on Tuesdays]). Heyman then said "Now, one more time for old times sakes... right there so the whole world can see us... this ain't WCW... this ain't Monday Night RAW... this ain't Smackdown!... this ain't even the WWE... this my friends... is E-C-Fucking-W!" [2] (http://www.powerwrestling.com/news/board.php?Show=1012).
On this show, Heyman is been portrayed as a face character, who has been successfully prevented the heels, Eric Bischoff and his crusaders from putting ECW out of business once and for all.
Wrestlers managed by Paul Heyman
- Austin Idol
- Tommy Rich
- The Mercenaries
- Dennis Condrey
- Randy Rose
- Col Debeers
- Adrian Adonis
- Samoan Swat Team
- Mean Mark Calloway
- Dangerous Alliance (Arn Anderson, Rick Rude, Larry Zbyzsko, Bobby Eaton, "Stunning" Steve Austin)
- Madusa
- Don Muraco
- Jimmy Snuka
- Eddie Gilbert
- Dark Patriot
- Sabu
- Taz/Tasmaniac
- 911
- Brock Lesnar
- Big Show
- Kurt Angle
- A-Train
- Team Angle (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas)
- Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley)
- Spike Dudley
- Heidenreich
Awards
- Heyman won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) Manager of the Year Award in 1992.