Paul Heyman Happy Ex-WWE Star’s “Sapiosexual Lust” Still Burns For Him
A former WWE personality has heaped praise on Paul Heyman.
Starting in November 2020, Kayla Braxton hosted Talking Smack alongside Paul Heyman. The duo formed an instant rapport and became a big hit with fans.
By July 2021, Heyman was removed from the show because management wanted him alongside Roman Reigns during all of his matches with the return of live crowds. However, luckily for fans, Heyman continued to regularly interact via backstage interviews.
Kayla Braxton eventually left WWE in June 2024, looking to launch a media career outside of wrestling.
During a new interview with Denise Salcedo for Instinct Culture, Braxton, real name Kayla Becker, reflected on her time working with Heyman.
“One of the most, if not the most, brilliant mind in wrestling. Paul’s been around for forever, for many different leaderships and eras of wrestling. [Our relationship] really happened very organically back during the ThunderDome era, during the pandemic, when they put us together on Talking Smack.
So when we had the panel show, I didn’t really know Paul. I hadn’t worked with Paul that much at the time. I just knew that this really big, loud man was on my kickoff show all of a sudden taking up all my airtime, and I was getting really frustrated with him, but then the more I got to work with him — I would not have become the broadcaster I had become if it weren’t for Paul Heyman.
From there, we’d create little mini storylines on the panel, which a lot of times, Talking Smack, things that would happen on there, even that Renee Paquette, then Renee Young, Daniel Bryan, things would end up on TV and storylines. So that’s kind of what inched our way into this whole Bloodline feud that I had.
There were a lot of times we’d be going live, I’d be handed a script of what to say in my interview, and Paul’s like, ‘You don’t need that.’ I’m like, ‘Yo, we’re going live,’ and I don’t know if I can just tell them in the truck, ‘Hey, I’m not saying that, but we would just go off the cuff,’ and anything Paul touched turned to gold. So, yeah, it was really fun.
That’s also something that’s really special, and that not a lot of people can say, is that they got to work that closely with the ‘Wise Man,'”
Paul Heyman Responds
Those comments quickly made their way to the Wise Man himself, and unsurprisingly, he couldn’t let the moment pass without having some fun with his former broadcast partner on social media.
Thank You Mssssssssss. Braxton (and I appreciate the fact your sapiosexual lust for me is still on full display)!
As reported by PWInsider, Heyman was backstage during Bad Blood and “intricately involved” in Roman Reigns’ creative. The former ECW boss hasn’t been seen on television since being attacked by The Bloodline on the June 28th episode of SmackDown.
H/t to Fightful