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Presentation is everything.

- Roman Reigns, flanked, of course, by the special counsel

to the tribal chief, Paul Heyman.

There's no denying Mr. Heyman's credentials, he has managed

winners for 40 years now.

- What compels you to want to be great?

My father was a personal injury attorney in the Bronx.

My mother was a Holocaust survivor.

That lives inside of me every single day.

- Paul E. Dangerously.

That's right.

The yuppie gone bad.

- He can make people see things that he sees in them

that they don't see in themselves.

- The most powerful manager in this sport.

- Without Paul Heyman, this business wouldn't be what it is.

- This is EC [bleep] W.

Both of my parents were different.

I was going to be a bit different.

I was a disruptor.

- Paul did not get along with everyone

he needed to get along with.

- What you got is my ideas and you stole my legacy.

I was immature, I was a schmuck.

I was thrown out the door.

It was very frustrating.

Infuriating.

Fatherhood was the great game changer.

Fatherhood forced me to learn accountability.

- Paul's got nine lives.

He's going to land cat like.

- You had the temerity to doubt the greatest manager

in Sports Entertainment history.

- Paul talks people listen

That's a gift.

- They ain't gonna cancel me

because they know if they do,

I'm coming back bigger, badder,

stronger than ever before.

- The great Paul Heyman.

- He's an impeccable character.

Great storyteller.

- The harder the fight, the greater the blessing.

Cinema

Was a big part of my childhood.

In fact, my parents encouraged me to pursue

an appreciation for the arts.

And part of the arts is cinema.

Watching great performances.

These are frames of reference for me.

When I watch a James Cagney, a Laurence Olivier.

When I watch someone completely inhabit the character,

a Tom Hardy, a Gary Oldman.

- Never said a word.

- I get very jealous or envious of the greatness that that

person got to achieve, and I want to experience that high.

There won't be no plea for absolution or benediction.

That's my fix.

That's my drug of choice.

Step out from a shadow of a national monument.

Greatness is greatness.

I deliver spoilers.

That's who I want to be.

The GOAT of all GOATs.

I was bound to be the greatest disappointment

of my mother's life.

If I ended up being anything, but the replacement for God.

Anything short of that and my mother would feel I didn't live

up to my potential or my responsibility as her son.

My father, on the other hand, was going to encourage me

no matter what I did in my life, because that was just

the nature of that man.

My father was a personal injury attorney in the Bronx.

From the day that he passed the bar,

He loved being a lawyer,

and that's what he wanted for his son.

The same passion.

The same love for what I was doing, no matter what it was.

But my mother, on the other hand,

she saw things a little differently.

And considering what she went through in life,

I understand that.

My mother was a Holocaust survivor, survived

the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

Every moment of every second, of every minute

of every hour of every day.

Trauma.

And that's what a Holocaust survivor went through.

So, the demands for my mother's own vision for her only child.

It's-It's not meant for human comprehension.

Because what she lived through was inhumane.

I don't know how that affected me.

This much, I can tell you.

I don't blink in life.

I'm ready for anything.

When I was 7 or 8, my mother would come to me,

when my parents would go out

on a Friday or Saturday night and say,

"If your father and I get hit by a drunk driver,

or if something goes wrong and we never come home,

you be ready for life.

You move forward and you don't let the past drag you behind."

That was Sulamita Szarf-Heyman and that lives inside her son.

There was no stopping me.

The first time I saw professional wrestling,

I was ten years old.

- I'm the man of the hour.

The man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

- And I was mesmerized by Superstar Billy Graham.

And I was a fan from that moment on.

- And the fans go wild.

- I wanted to be part of it.

I wanted to be inside on it.

That's where I'm supposed to be.

That's what I went after.

All I had to do was seize the moment.

Born a New Yorker-

on the Lower East Side of New York at that time,

especially in the 1970s,

there were a lot of free, radical newspapers.

Now, one of these newspapers actually had a sports column,

which was more of a gossip column.

The reporter had chronicled the fact that after Madison Square

Garden, Vincent James McMahon would take his inner circle

to Ben Benson's Steakhouse in New York City.

This newspaper probably had a circulation of about

150 or 200 people.

So there's no way that Vincent James McMahon knew that his

aftershow steak dinners were being reported somewhere.

So I called the WWE and I chased down a conversation

with Vince McMahon and

I claimed to have been at Ben Benson's Steakhouse,

where I ran into Vincent James McMahon and mentioned to him

that I needed a press pass for Madison Square Garden.

And it worked.

Where at 15 years old with a great line of BS

and a camera around my neck.

I got in backstage behind the scenes to start learning the

inner workings of the business.

- Many times we'd go to the Garden and uh, Paul

would be in the back in the locker room with us.

He just became part of the woodwork and part of the family.

Very interesting to listen to,

and he always spoke up and gave his opinion, which I felt was

really a tremendous gift to do

at that time his young age.

And Paul had a lot of questions and that's how you learn.

- I got to see how the show was run, and I was there

when Vincent James McMahon passed the torch

to Vincent Kennedy McMahon.

So I saw the transition.

I watched pro wrestling become Sports Entertainment,

- The wrestling extravaganza of all time,

WrestleMania.

- My education was going to be out there in the real world.

I was bored out of my mind going to school.

I went to college.

I got an associates degree in three semesters and really had

no desire to continue.

There just weren't enough hours in the day for me.

I was 17, 18, 19 years old.

I wanted to do it all.

I went from being a photographer to becoming the editor at three

wrestling magazines that had national distribution

on the newsstands.

I was a house photographer at Studio 54, the world's most

famous nightclub, that became the in-house publicist,

that also became then a producer and a promoter as well.

- I met Paul in March of 1985, when I returned back to my old

high school, which was running an independent wrestling show,

and Paul Heyman was taking photographs.

I was surprised to see someone who had that many

responsibilities at such a young age.

Both of us, 19 years old and I was wrestling.

Paul was pulling the strings.

- I wanted to write and direct and produce the shows.

That was my dream.

I had gotten in as far as I could get in.

I was never going to be able to give instructions to the talent

if I didn't have the cachet of understanding their lives.

So I had to become a performer as my ticket in, and I developed

the-the character of Paul E. Dangerously,

and lo and behold it hit-

Fast.

- You excited?

- I was born for this [bleep]

This is-

- I know.

This is chump change for you.

- Nothing is chump change.

Everything counts.

- You're right

- Everything counts.

See in the old days.

Megan would not be so lucky.

Because-

She's barefoot right now.

And in the old days, I would step on her feet before the

interview so that she looks at me like this.

Because if the interviewer has contempt and disdain for me,

so will you as the audience.

Just another little trick of being a villain.

Method acting.

There were two guys that I had known from taking pictures of

them, and I started booking us out throughout the Northeast

Independents as a manager and a tag team.

So I'm six months into my run and I wind up in Verne Gagne's

AWA, which airs daily at 4:00 in the afternoon on ESPN.

This is enormous national exposure.

- He's a man of a few thousand well-chosen words.

- The mid 80s, the age of the yuppie

and the Gordon Gekko wannabe.

AndIt permeated every room ely intensthat I walked in.Yorker.

Now, there was a movie in the mid 80s called Johnny

Dangerously, so I took the name Paul E. Dangerously because it

was so outlandish, so over-the-top,

that it drew your attention.

When Paul E. Dangerously wants to know something he finds out

by picking up the phone.

In 1987, the role of the manager was already dying off.

The manager would set up the client's promo.

Isn't that right, Golden Boy?

- That's right.

- And then inevitably interfere in the match and/or get beat up

on a nightly basis by the hero.

- Would you say that Mr. Dangerously is not exactly the

favorite here tonight?

- I think that you may have made the understatement of the year.

- Paul and I met each other in the AWA, and so seeing his work

as a manager, I think everybody just knew that

obviously was talented.

- The greatest professional wrestling manager

in the world.

- I drove the Gagnes nuts.

I couldn't stand how old school the AWA was, and the fact that

just a young, vibrant personality on their television

show could get so much momentum simply because I was young

and vibrant, told me everything I needed to know.

So by the time I got a job in WCW, they already knew we're

bringing on someone that's going to change the way we do things

behind the scenes.

If you want me to prove to you that 1989 is going to be the

year of Living Dangerously, I'm going to prove it to you.

- Paul was very good.

Here's a guy

that had been grown up and groomed to do this stuff,

and a brilliant mind who helps make his people better.

- Nobody's been able to stop this mind.

And now I got this man backing me.

And what we can do together,

No man can stop.

- First impressions of meeting a young Paul Heyman.

Loud and energetic,

but passionate.

Paul's always been very passionate about this business,

and when you're trying to come up in this business,

you can get discouraged pretty quick.

And Paul may be one of the best cheerleaders out there.

You know, we're traveling together and just his

energy is infectious.

- You never will be half the man that this man is.

- He formed the Dangerous Alliance,

which I think is one of the most overlooked factions

in wrestling history.

- It's an alliance of businessmen,

who will bring WCW down to its knees.

Steve, you're the man.

- Paul and I had bonded tremendously in WCW

as he was my manager.

Paul E. was one of the people in my life who was paramount

as far as my success in this business.

- That was a star making moment for me.

All of a sudden I'm on the cover of magazines.

I could get into the newspapers,

which were big back in those days.

Before the internet,

being in the newspaper was everything.

- We're on the road in WCW and Paul's like,

"Hey, hey, hey you, it's a Monday night.

Hey, let's go to the China Club."

China Club was hot in New York City.

I mean, it was the place to be.

There was a line out the door down the street and I'm like,

"Oh, Paul."

He goes, "Nah, we ain't waiting in line."

So we didn't.

We go right in.

- I would go to the China Club and I'm hanging out with

Lawrence Taylor, Brooke Shields or Michael Jordan.

- He was running around everywhere,

"Hey, hey."

talking to everybody,

knew everybody, was all hooked up with everybody.

- I'm never in the room going,

"Wow, that's Michael Jordan. He's the greatest of all time."

I'm an equal.

I'm sitting there going,

"Hey, Michael Jordan is a Paul Heyman guy.

Lucky for him, he got to take a picture with me."

I really never cared about other people's opinions.

I wasn't raised to seek acceptance or affirmation.

It wouldn't have bothered me if my parents were completely

unaccepting of my choices.

I don't think my mother was very crazy about it.

My father was always encouraging.

I was raised to pursue what mattered to me.

- The most powerful manager in this sport,

and he is really on a roll right now.

- So the year is 1992.

I'm 26 years old.

And I'm on top of the world.

- Say what you want to about Paul E.

You cannot deny that this man is maybe the most successful

manager this sport has ever seen.

- WCW instead of reaching for the future,

regresses to the past,

and they bring in Cowboy Bill Watts to run the company.

- Yeah, I had idiots, uh-

There was a guy named Heyman, Paul Heyman or something.

He was a great talent.

Phenomenal talent,

but he wouldn't fit in with what I wanted.

- Now, Paul did not get along

with everyone he needed to get along with.

He rubbed some people the wrong way.

- I ended up firing him.

- I'm gone.

I'm out.

I'm so bitter by this experience.

I figure I'm done with this business.

Time for something else.

I signed with the William Morris Agency and the first gig I land,

is to go head to head with Howard Stern

on New York morning radio.

And just as I'm about to start promoting that new gig-

It's like the line from The Godfather movie,

"That's when they pulled me back in."

ECW.

- This is ECW.

- Hello everyone,

and welcome to Extreme Championship Wrestling.

This is Joey Styles and you are watching the wrestling promotion

that's changing the face of the sport today.

- My best friend asked me to start running the creative for a

small promotion called ECW.

My goal was to start with a blank piece of paper and imagine

what it could be, and watching it come to life.

We were going to take the entire business to the extreme.

- You've got this rogue outfit, ECW, that's on the periphery,

There kind of doing their own thing.

They were really cutting edge with things that they were

doing, and Paul was definitely the visionary there.

- When ECW came along and Paul took on a different role as the

leader, he was the leader of a revolution

for my age group, my people.

He was at the forefront.

- There was nobody that the 18 to 34 male demographic could

look at and say, "Oh yeah, you know what?

That's the new thing that's out there."

There was nothing out of bounds.

There was nothing, nothing off limits.

We went for it.

- Well, ECW understood with Paul Heyman at the helm that you

could not out WWE, WWE and you could not out WCW, WCW.

So they did not even try.

- Oh my God.

- They just set about putting out completely alternative

product than most anyone had ever seen.

- My younger brother and my dad and I would not miss a show.

I loved ECW.

- They were the cool thing.

Who doesn't want to be the cool thing?

- I did anything and everything to create stars for ECW.

I can see the greatness in others that

they can't see in themselves.

Rhino

And when you say Rhino, I want you to take the belt,

and stick it, you know what I'm saying?

'Cause now I want them to associate the name

Rhino with the title, so that to them you're one and the same.

Real subliminal, okay?

But it's one and the same.

I'm Rhino.

- Paul is a wrestling genius.

The man spent countless hours with us when it came to

the art of the promo.

Yo, Hack.

- More.

- Sorry about

- No.

More, come on.

Come on, more.

Come on.

Yo Hack

- Yo Hack

- Yo Hack

- Every now and then,

It takes someone else to reach

deep inside their soul and their spiritual being,

and drag that greatness out of them.

- There's just something about Paul E.

He can take anybody

and turn them into a walking, talking promo machine.

Paul has a way of dispensing advice like nobody else.

He's like, he's like a horse whisperer.

He's the wrestler whisperer.

I'm going to be the superstar that I always knew

that I could be.

- Paul was good at scouting talent.

Paul's always been good with using wrestlers

not noticed abilities.

- This is the man that taught me respect.

- No meaning of the word

- It was great though.

- ECW was a beautiful place to grow

because you were given such freedom.

I made my bed of nails and now I've got no other choice,

but to be powerbombed on it.

So yeah, I'm a lot more comfortable here.

I mean, this has been probably the best year I've ever had in

wrestling, and a lot of it has to do with the lack of

that corporate pressure.

And so Paul helped people believe in themselves.

by his belief in them.

And I think it's a primary reason why some of my very best

stuff, may be my best stuff ever, was done in ECW.

- I really don't know what my parents thought of ECW.

I'm sure my mother hated it.

My mother was going to hate anything I was doing anyway.

I could be a Supreme Court justice and my mother would

not have been satisfied.

But my parents were very supportive of it.

$4 million of the funding of ECW came from my parents.

But ECW didn't have the resources or the wherewithal

to last six months-

In the 1990s.

In the most hypercompetitive environment

in the history of this industry.

- The Rock scores with the People's Elbow.

The Rock is the champion.

- The Rock.

- There were so many financial problems in ECW where money was

owed that it just became unsustainable for him.

- I went personally bankrupt.

And we go out of business.

ECW was seven and a half years of my life.

and I loved every minute of it.

Even the worst times.

ECW was meant to disrupt the entire industry.

It was so far ahead of its time, it wasn't meant to last.

It was just meant to show everybody else the way.

We accomplished that goal.

Vince McMahon was very supportive of my tenure at the

head of ECW, that I had the sheer ambition to go out

and do something on my own in this business.

He could relate to that.

And Vince McMahon made me an offer I just couldn't refuse.

- Paul, give us a little bit of pad here,

so we get that nice big boo pop

- Kirsh what am I saying?

Baseball, boxing, WWE it's all based on the same premise.

Who are these two opponents?

Why are they fighting?

Why should I pay to see it?

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Paul Heyman.

What will people take away from this?

Say, "Wow, now I get it."

- What do you think?

- What do you think?

- It was great.

- Great I'll take.

- That opens the show.

- Great I'll take.

Damn right it does.

This all dates back to my father being in front of a jury.

What does my father want the jury to take away from

what he's selling to them?

Same thing that I do.

The next big thing, Brock Lesnar.

- This massive human being is scary.

- When I first came to WWE, I needed somebody to pull me

by the reins and point me in the right direction.

And that guy was-was Paul Heyman.

He's the best in the business.

Paul, smarten me up to a lot of different things

in the wrestling business.

And I have a trust in Paul and he has a trust in me.

- A couple of weeks into our run together, Brock and I are on a

plane to the UK for an event and one of us reveals to the other,

Psst, um.

"Hey, listen, nobody else knows this, but I'm about

to become a father.

My girlfriend is pregnant with a baby girl."

And then the other revealed,

"Hey, me too. I'm about to become a father too.

My girlfriend is also pregnant with a baby girl

and I'm keeping it secret."

[chuckles]

We-we both realized just how our approach to things was,

so in line with two people that were so different

from each other.

And we bonded over it.

- I became a father because of 9/11.

- We have a breaking news story

to tell you about.

Apparently a plane

has just crashed into the World Trade

Center here in New York City.

It happened just a few moments ago.

- It was really the first time I got in touch

with my own mortality.

It happened on my 36th birthday,

and I realized that my parents

were getting older, and I wanted my parents to know my children

and my children to know my parents.

Becoming a father was the great game changer.

I remember when my daughter was a tiny little baby,

and I-I got to a red light

and someone ran that red light,

and one's initial reaction is always going to be

"Whoa, that guy could have killed me."

- And my reaction was,

"Whoa, that-that guy could have taken me away from my daughter.

What would have happened to her in her life?"

And I realized it's not about me anymore.

It's about my children.

My mother was never proud of me until she saw me as a father.

In the eyes of a Holocaust survivor,

my life was about one thing.

I was a conduit to the next generation.

My responsibility to those who perished in the Holocaust

was to tell their story to my children and to make sure

that my children tell that story to the next generation.

That's my sacred purpose.

- Are you recording?

- Wow.

- Book, you say something?

- No.

- Also about that time, I became the lead writer of SmackDown.

- It's not just any old ass kicking.

It's a Stone Cold Steve Austin ass kicking.

It's not like anybody else's asskicking.

- Gotcha.

- It happened at a time where there was so much

concentration on Raw.

I kind of got to do my own thing for a while,

and we were cookin'.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the

crown jewel of World Wrestling Entertainment.

Paul Heyman's SmackDown.

- Look at Mysterio.

Oh my God.

- We start beating Monday Night Raw

on every conceivable

analytic that one could chart.

- Oh my God,

- Look at this from the top rope.

- Paul Heyman was very good for the SmackDown brand.

And, you know, I have a lot of respect for Paul because he

knows a lot about the business.

And for the most part, he's usually right when

he makes a call.

So we all respected him, and we did what he told us to do.

- Paul was hell bent on making sure that SmackDown

was going to the best damn show

in all of Sports Entertainment.

- Action you'll ony see here on SmackDown.

- So each and every Wednesday night, Paul Heyman would put us

into a studio and we would recall SmackDown

every single week until 5 or 6:00 in the morning.

And I wanted, you know, to kill him at the time.

I want to go home, right?

I don't want to be here with you all night long.

And Paul's like, "Too bad I'm the head of the show.

We're going to do this the way I want to do it."

And I didn't realize what he was doing, which was turning me

into a grade A announcer.

It isn't often that you use the word pretty when describing

a wrestling match, but that is a pretty maneuver

by Eddie Guerrero.

- When Paul has an idea that he feels strongly about,

he's committed to it.

He's going to stand his ground for as long as he can,

where a lot of times people will, just like

"Screw it, man, whatever. Let's just do it."

But obviously, you know, the decision ultimately goes

to the Big Man.

- I was no longer the final say, the end all be all, the boss.

And now I'm working for someone and have to do things the way

they want it done.

I was immature.

I was a schmuck.

But then again, a disruptor by nature can't be mature or

complacent in their role.

[grunt]

- So by the end of 2006, Vince McMahon and I were just butting

heads and our relationship becomes toxic.

And one of us has to go.

And it ain't going to be the majority shareholder

and the chairman of the board.

It's going to be me.

- How are you, darling?

How's the family?

- All-all good.

- Come on we're ready for you.

- Yes, ma'am, thank you.

Thank you sir.

- You know the way.

So I was out and I was starting to pursue other dreams,

and never thought I was coming back.

How are you?

Thank you very much.

Did a lot of things that I never had the time to do.

Started my own advertising, marketing and branding agency.

Hola.

How are ya?

- How are you?

- When we met as an advertising and branding person,

he went from the guy on camera to the guy behind building

brands or helping brands to discover who they are.

We're writing a movie.

The agency has blown up.

We have projects in England.

We have projects in Vegas, L.A, New York.

- We're in the middle of all these projects,

but Brock and I never stopped working together.

When Brock went to UFC, I was doing all of his social media,

all of his digital work.

I co-wrote Brock's autobiography with him.

In fact, the only time Brock and I stopped working together was

when he went back to WWE,

and I had no interest in going back.

When Brock Lesnar was out there without me, he felt naked.

He felt something missing,

as much as the audience felt something missing.

No.

No, think about it.

I didn't miss anything.

The only thing in life I miss is my parents.

I don't miss anything in life.

My mother died in 2009.

I don't know how it affected me.

Because I was too busy managing it.

I was too busy worried about how that would affect my father,

and how it would affect my children.

And that wiring inside of me,

comes from her.

Because if one can change the past, imagine what she would

change about her life.

So I don't think about it.

I move forward because from the time I was seven years old,

she had me ready to move forward without her.

- Oh, no.

- What?

- Oh my god.

Brock Lesnar has indeed sent his legal representation.

That is Paul Heyman, ladies and gentlemen.

- The package was not complete.

And Vince McMahon said to Brock,

"Wasn't exactly what I was envisioning."

And Brock looked Vince dead in the eyes and said,

"Then make Paul Heyman an offer that he can't refuse."

And so they did.

It's just that simple.

Five years after being taken off the air.

I came back to WWE.

And I am here this evening as the advocate for Brock Lesnar.

When I came back to WWE,

I wanted to be the advocate.

The fondest moments I have from my childhood is when I got to

skip school and go to court with my father.

My father put on a show, and when the judge would admonish

my father, my father would say, "Oh oh, your Honor, your honor.

I'm just an advocate."

My father died in 2013.

And that's whose shoes I wanted to fill.

And that's the persona I wanted to portray to the world.

I had to go back completely different, reinvent myself,

and absolutely top everything that I had done to such a degree

that everything I did before 2012 would pale by comparison.

- The Undertaker takes on The Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnar.

This match is simply about one thing.

The 21-0 undefeated streak of The Undertaker.

- There's no greater victory that could have been offered.

There's no championship, no accomplishment as big in

Sports Entertainment as The Undertaker's undefeated

streak at WrestleMania.

- The streak took on a life of its own.

I was so glad I had a chance to watch it.

It's our Joe DiMaggio 56 game hitting streak.

- If Brock Lesnar ends the streak, that would cement

Paul Heyman's legacy as the greatest strategist,

the best manager ever.

- You earned it.

You earned everything in your life.

This history is yours to conquer.

Now, conquer it.

Take it.

- Oh.

[bell ringing]

- Oh my God. Oh my God.

Oh my God.

You did it. You did it.

I was the one behind the one in 21-1.

- If you're the manager of the guy that did what

no one else could do.

I mean, you got to get some credit somewhere, right?

I'm a manager of the guy that broke the streak.

It's a pretty big feather in a hat.

- But I can't call it the greatest accomplishment

because then I've peaked.

If you achieve a dream, go after the next dream.

Hey, as of right now, I think Roman is landing at 1:00.

- Okay.

- Which makes a 1:15 call a little early.

I'm wondering if we switch Roman and Brock.

- I will swap it around.

- In April 2020, Brock's contract came up.

So Brock went home.

And I thought my performing career was over.

- Without Paul Heyman, this business wouldn't be what it is.

Paul behind the scenes wears a lot of hats for this company.

- There's just a lot of different ways to jockey and

position yourself that would probably dive into the political

side of what we do in the backstage.

Watching how Paul and Brock were maneuvering at the time,

it was a powerful duo,

it really was so much so that I had to snatch it.

- Well, there is no doubt that this is a frightening alliance

that has been formed with Roman Reigns and his special counsel,

Paul Heyman.

- Brock wasn't here, and I can't imagine anyone else that would

compel me to go to work every day with that passion,

other than Roman Reigns.

I'm not just on camera with Roman Reigns.

I work very closely behind the scenes with Roman Reigns.

- He's just such a great mind for the business creatively.

- You're a righteous man in shark infested water.

If you don't ruthlessly, viciously, violently

stab the sharks, they're going to eat you.

- When Paul is someone's manager,

it doesn't stop when TV is over.

- Text Roman Reigns.

You, comma, sir, comma,

are all set with parking dot dot dot, I just sent you-

- He takes all these little stressors away,

being on the road is tough,

I can lock in and focus on what I need to focus on,

and he just makes it easier.

- The connection with Roman and Paul, tight.

He elevated the hell out of me too.

He trying to help everybody.

I see him chopping it up with a lot of other talent.

And if I don't see you talking to Paul,

then you missing out.

- Paul Heyman has one of the greatest minds I've ever talked

to about the business of Sports Entertainment.

You put him with anybody, anybody, and he's going to make

'em better than they are by themselves.

- This man right here, the great Paul Heyman.

I mean, there's very few people

that have a career that I look at

and I go like this,

"I wish I had that."

How do you view yourself?

- I'm the greatest

of all time.

- Please join me,

and acknowledge the newest member

of the WWE Hall of Fame, Paul Heyman.

- You damn [bleep] right I deserve it.

[crowd cheers]

- I hope you can understand what this means, and then-

-now I'm getting emotional.

What you brought to the table for this business,

what you've done for the talent,

what you still do for the talent,

what you've done to change this business,

we wouldn't be where we are without you.

- Thank you.

- I [bleep] mean that.

- I know you do.

- People think of, man, here's this wrestling guy,

best mouthpiece in the game.

But I think if you really want to tap into Paul's legacy,

you have to meet Azalea and Jacob.

One of the most impressive things about Paul is his

relationship with his children, and I think that's

his true legacy.

- I don't really worry about my my legacy anymore.

I wasn't raised to seek acceptance or affirmation.

I was raised to pursue what mattered to me.

That's how I raised my kids.

And if my children can find whatever it is in life that

elicits the passion and the exhilaration and the lust for

life that I have found in mine-

Showtime.

-then I've done them a service above and beyond what most other

parents can instill in their children.

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Paul Heyman.

[crowd cheers]

I don't have any regrets in life.

Everything I've lived through gets me to this point.

I've learned the lessons of not only my failures,

but of the enormity of my past

schmuckery.

I'm not done disrupting.

- Right now I'm looking to get a word with

Paul Heyman tonight.

- Watch, watch, go back, go back, go back.

I'm not done creating.

I'm not done dreaming.

I'd like to think that at 58, I'm just starting

to figure this [bleep] out.

And that I'm going to be better at it tomorrow than I am today.

This is what we call,

"Do or die on the island of relevancy."

And the beauty of it all

is, hopefully, if you're along for the ride with me,

you'll get to see it unfold in front of our very eyes.

I'm an extraordinarily blessed man.