Paul Heyman Addresses Semi-Retirement From WWE

Paul Heyman has been around in wrestling for a long time.

The pioneer of ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling), Paul Heyman, has been in WWE for nearly 25 years.

After ECW closed down in 2001, Heyman began working with WWE as a writer, commentator, and on-screen manager. He was one of the main writers of SmackDown in the early 2000s and was also the executive director on Raw between 2019 and 2020.

Paul Heyman currently plays the manager for the heel faction, The Vision, on Raw and also for Brock Lesnar.

This past week, he has been talking about the buildup to WrestleMania 43 in Saudi Arabia next year, pushing WWE to plan early for the event. Heyman recently revealed on Busted Open that he’s been lobbying internally to prioritize what he calls Saudi Mania.

His passion for the business runs deep, and in a recent interview with Metro UK on Feb 25, Heyman opened up about how long he has left in the wrestling business.

Paul Heyman Says He Doesn’t Plan To Retire

Although a semi-retirement may be on the cards at some point, which, according to Heyman, would mean working as a writer, director, or producer in movies and TV shows and getting into the podcast business while also being involved with WWE, Heyman declared that he doesn’t plan to retire.

Probably long after I’m – well, I don’t think I’ll ever retire, but I’ll be semi-retired by then, and be jetting in from Costa Rica, or some villa off the coast of Italy.

And as I’m jetting in for these major events, the main event of WrestleMania will be prepped for, that main eventer will have been taught how to be a WrestleMania main eventer, will have been enticed to continue on his path of being a Paul Heyman guy to the main event of WrestleMania.

Heyman believes in developing stars for the next generation, and he is doing exactly that with the young stars he’s managing in The Vision faction.

So I take great satisfaction in the fact that the people that I am surrounded by now will be the dominant main eventers of WrestleMania for at least the next generation and into the next generation after that.

On semi-retirement and what it would mean for him, Paul Heyman clarified that it would only be from WWE, but that too, at least 15 years from now.

Semi-retirement for me would probably mean writing, producing, directing a couple of movies a year, creating a streaming show or two, maybe get into, finally, after all these years, the podcast business. Semi-retirement just means semi-retirement from WWE, but I mean, we’re talking at least 15 years from now.

I’m just getting started at this, b**es, I’m just understanding the magnitude of the greatness that I put forward. So for me to even contemplate slowing down is unfathomable at the moment, but at some time, I may just want to enjoy one day off per year.

h/t: ringsidenews.com

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