Paul Heyman Went To Unusual And Extreme Lengths For WWE Storyline
Paul Heyman was determined to make his big moment as memorable as possible.
From the moment Roman Reigns was defeated by Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 40, Paul Heyman’s life began to fall apart.
Following WrestleMania Reigns went on a lengthy hiatus leaving Heyman in limbo. With Reigns gone, Solo Sikoa assumed control of The Bloodline and promptly got rid of Jimmy Uso before recruiting Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa, and Jacob Fatu.
Sikoa claimed he was now the Tribal Chief and this made things difficult for Heyman who remained loyal to Reigns.
On the June 28th edition of SmackDown live from Madison Square Garden, Paul Heyman refused to acknowledge Solo Sikoa as his Tribal Chief. The Wiseman, who looked as though he hadn’t slept in days, cut the figure of a broken man during the show, and that was before the new Bloodline smashed him through the announce table.
Paul Heyman Made Sure WWE Moment Would Be Remembered
During an appearance on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast, Heyman recalled his disheveled outing at ‘The Garden.’ The Hall of Famer explained that he needed to look like the weight of the world was on his shoulders and he was falling apart, so he stopped sleeping, stopped shaving, ate bad food, and washed the dye out of his hair.
“If I had a good night’s rest, and I had a nice meal in the morning and I got a little sweat going in the afternoon and I warmed up and I’m clean shaven and my suit fits perfectly, and you just feel right walking out there in Madison Square Garden going, ‘I’m (Frank) Sinatra. I feel great.’ That’s hard to cry.
But if I’ve been up for an entire night or a night and a half. If I got 90 minutes of sleep and I intentionally woke myself up. Didn’t shave for several days. Didn’t wash my hair for several days. Little more grey grows in. Took the stuff that washes the dye out of your hair so that more grey is showing. I wanted the aging process for a week to be really defined.
Ate like sh*t the whole week. Stuff that would upset my stomach. I intentionally ate things that I knew (would upset me). If there are spices that don’t agree with you, I ate those, just so that my skin color was off. Wore no makeup. Intentionally wore a suit that didn’t fit me as well.
I wanted people to go, ‘You’re okay, right?’ Therefore, it wasn’t difficult for me. When it’s time for me to say, ‘You’re not my Tribal Chief,’ and I’m in tears, and I’m bawling, it’s easy for me because I’m worn out. I feel awful. I just feel like crap out there, but you have the adrenaline rush because we could feel the audience was with us,”
After being driven through the announce table, Heyman wouldn’t return to television until November 22nd when he enlisted CM Punk to help Roman Reigns at Survivor Series. Punk has repeatedly claimed that Heyman owes him a favour as a result.
H/t to Fightful