Current WWE Star Legitimately Angered Stephanie McMahon

Stephanie McMahon has explained why she was mad at a WWE legend when they worked together in the past.

There is a lengthy 2+ hour chat between future WWE Hall of Famer Stephanie McMahon and WWE Hall of Famer on Steph’s “What’s Your Story?” podcast.

The two wrestling legends have a fascinating history together because when they first worked together in the early 2000s, it was after Paul Heyman already had a lot of success as a wrestling photographer, on-screen manager, and a guy who ran the popular ECW promotion.

When Heyman joined WWE in 2001 after the death of ECW, Stephanie was in her mid-20s and leading the creative team under her father Vince McMahon, the former Chairman who had final say on all things WWE for four decades.

During the podcast, Paul Heyman spoke about how Vince McMahon pitted Heyman against Stephanie McMahon, even though they were technically trying to work together to produce good content for WWE fans.

“We were pitted against each other. Oh, of course, of course, we were, we were absolutely. Well, you know, first of all, I just had spent seven and a half years of my life being God of my own universe. I was the end-all be-all.

Now, I come aboard and I’m working for other people, and there’s an approval process where, number one, I was the approval process, and now I’m one of many pitching.

So when I came aboard, I was told, ‘My daughter runs the writing team. Take her out of her game. I want you to be the disruptor in the room. I want you to be the contrarian opinion. Do not make that easier. There’s no nepotism here. She earns that right to manage you, or she doesn’t get to do it.’”

Stephanie McMahon Was Frustrated By Paul Heyman

Later in the same podcast, Stephanie McMahon spoke about how she learned a lot from her father Vince McMahon, husband Paul “Triple H” Levesque and also Paul Heyman, but when it came to Heyman, she was frustrated when she worked with him.

Stephanie: “I was trying to learn from you, but I was also trying to learn what didn’t work. So when you would present everything as a solve and here’s what we do, and I’m like, but…and I poke holes in it. And you’d be like, ‘You can just ignore that part.’ And then I’d be like…(Heyman laughs)…cuz I really wanted to understand, you know.

I was trying so hard to learn the psychology of the business, from every aspect. And I learned so much of it from my dad on the writing side. And I learned so much of it from Paul (Triple H) ringside. I never understood at all the psychology of a match before he explained it to me. You know, and he would take me through things. And answer my questions. You know, cuz I had so many questions.

And that was what I was trying to do with you and understand your psychology, and how you would create all these ideas And how you knew which talents actually had it and who didn’t. You saw things in people that nobody else saw. And when you kept saying it like, ‘Yes, no, this is the answer. And this and only this.’ And I’m like no, but rif with me. ‘Nope, this is it.’ It would frustrate me because I didn’t feel like I was learning…cuz you weren’t giving me that at that time. But that’s okay.”

When Heyman tried to speak up to explain his viewpoint, Stephanie spoke up again.

Stephanie: “But that’s why I got frustrated. Cuz you were bulls**ting me and I called you out on it, and I was like, ‘Would you just stop doing that?'” (Heyman laughs.)

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