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Paul Heyman is always in rhythm with a microphone in his hand in front of a WWE crowd, even as the beats have had to change for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heyman, 59, has been the quintessential heel manager for most of his 38-year career from working with the Dangerous Alliance in WCW to Brock Lesnar to CM Punk and now Roman Reigns in WWE with many more in between.<\/p>\n
That changed after Reigns\u2019 1,316-day world championship reign ended with a loss to Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 40 last April.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It put the former Undisputed WWE champion on a journey from hated heel to top babyface with Heyman as his \u201cWiseman\u201d doing much of the heavy lifting on screen as Reigns took some time away.<\/p>\n
For Heyman, the task was to find a new balance that didn\u2019t violate the integrity of his on-screen character while directed at a different goal in the company\u2019s five-year-long Bloodline saga as Solo Sikoa now tried to ascend to Reigns\u2019 position as Tribal Chief.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never looked for sympathy before, but coming out of WrestleMania, I was clearly putting myself in a sympathetic position as Solo\u2019s reign of terror started to become the dominant storyline on SmackDown,\u201d Heyman said in a phone interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think the presentation of the character is much different. I think the very same things that made the character compelling as a villain make the character interesting to watch in a form in which he will elicit the respect of the crowd to be bestowed upon him.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is a change in Heyman\u2019s approach to promos and what he wants to accomplish.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy rhythm as a villain is to end sentences on a dagger that are not only toward the opponent but stick and twist into the audience,\u201d Heyman said. \u201cThe rhythm as a protagonist is to stick and twist the intended opponent or the adversary, but not the audience. To have the audience do the stick and twist with you as your chorus.\u201d<\/p>\n
The story\u2019s events led Heyman to one of the most special moments of his career on June 28 when he refused to acknowledge Sikoa as his Tribal Chief and was triple-powerbombed through the announce table at Madison Square Garden, the building where his foray into wrestling began in 1986 as a photographer and Reigns\u2019 Anoa\u2019i family has such a rich history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To prepare for the moment, Heyman, who looked completely disheveled and aged that night, only got 90 minutes of sleep over the course of a night and a half, stripped the dye from his hair, wore no makeup and even ate food that upset his stomach to change his skin color.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was able to avoid people in the world outside WWE from worrying about his appearance slowly falling apart after WrestleMania for the betterment of the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnybody that had seen me in the outside world had already seen me now for a few weeks on unshaven and I\u2019m very lowkey when I go out, I pick my spots,\u201d Heyman said. \u201cI try to be as incognito as possible. So there weren\u2019t a lot of people coming through, \u2018Oh, my god, are you OK? Most people didn\u2019t get a chance to see me. The shock value has to be when you see me, \u2018My god, what happened to him.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heyman said that level of commitment was needed whether it happened at MSG or not, but the calendar provided the perfect venue for the story to play out. He went over the rhythm of that segment in his head the whole week leading up to SmackDown to get it perfect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t going to change around the story to accommodate Madison Square Garden,\u201d Heyman said.\u00a0 \u201cIt just so happened that the stars were all aligned, and doing it at the Garden did indeed add so much to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The planning and storytelling around Reigns and The Bloodline have WWE entering Saturday\u2019s Royal Rumble (6 p.m., Peacock) at Lucas Oil Stadium with various subplots revolving around Reigns, who on Monday was announced as the cover athlete for upcoming WWE 2K25 video game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seth Rollins, CM Punk, Sami Zayn, Drew McIntyre and Jey Uso and others all have ties to Reigns and their on-screen experiences with The Bloodline They, along with Reigns, will all be in the men\u2019s Royal Rumble with a world championship match in the main event of\u00a0 WrestleMania on the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition, the story of Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens\u2019 ladder match for the Undisputed WWE championship ties back to The Prize Fighter\u2019s hate of the champion teaming with Reigns at Bad Blood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The idea of creating an extended and cohesive universe revolving around the \u201cTribal Chief\u201d has been a goal all along. Reigns in WWE\u2019s dramatic episodic series is treated no differently than Tony Soprano in \u201cThe Sopranos,\u201d Walter White in \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d and John Dutton in \u201cYellowstone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe depth of that (main) character has affected everything and everyone within the story,\u201d Heyman said of the TV dramas\u2019 leading characters. \u201cAnd that\u2019s Roman Reigns. Roman Reigns is the central character around which all WWE stories revolve, and they should be several degrees of separation away from Roman Reigns. But Roman Reigns\u2019 actions affect everyone top to bottom with a trickle-down theory and everyone else\u2019s actions trickle up towards Roman Reigns.\u201d<\/p>\n
There may be no more famous supporting character in the story than Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson, who also sits on the board of directors of WWE\u2019s parent company, TKO. The Rock returned to the ring to tag with Reigns at WrestleMania 40 and last appeared acknowledging Reigns as Tribal Chief on Raw\u2019s Netflix debut on\u00a0Jan. 6.<\/p>\n
How and when The Rock factors into the story going forward is often decided by his availability around his film responsibilities. It\u2019s a delicate balance both sides are adjusting to as WWE is planning where the story goes next without having a Plan A and a Plan Rock.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a leadership by example to be set by someone who\u2019s on the board of directors, much like Dwayne\u2019s responsibilities as just a star of a movie are far different than when he\u2019s one of the executive producers of the movie as well,\u201d Heyman said. \u201cSo he\u2019s not just a talent, he\u2019s a member of the board of directors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so, there is a process by which creative has to flow seamlessly here, and he has to be part of that seamless flow. There\u2019s a balancing act, and I think he and everyone involved in potential Rock creative are finding that balance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two of the story\u2019s emerging characters are Sikoa, who went from Reigns\u2019 silent enforcer to challenging his cousin for the right to be Tribal Chief, and Jacob Fatu, who quickly went from Sikoa\u2019s enforcer to now being unleashed as the potential leader of the opposing Bloodline faction.<\/p>\n
Heyman said he sees a potential future where both are \u201cWrestleMania main events\u201d\u00a0 either \u201cagainst each other\u201d or a weekend where \u201cSaturday is main evented by one and Sunday is main evented by the other.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe learning curve that both have displayed is intimidating to say the least because we\u2019re at the point where anyone trying to teach Solo or Jacob anything ends up learning from them as much as you try to teach them,\u201d Heyman said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The quality of story and performances being put forth has Heyman campaigning for himself, Reigns and others in WWE to finally be considered for and win Emmys \u2014 awards they have long been shut out from because pro wrestling is a unique form of entertainment that doesn\u2019t fit nicely into any award category.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heyman challenges some of the great actors of today he admires, from Gary Oldman (\u201cSlow Horses\u201d) to Walton Goggins (Fallout) among others, to give the usually flawless level of performance he and Reigns and other WWE stars put forth weekly on live TV in front of 20,00 people and not \u201ccrumble under the pressure\u201d a rowdy crowd can create.<\/p>\n
Heyman points to the whole Bloodline\u2019s work in the Trial of Sami Zayn last January as an example.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not taking away from the greatness of these actors,\u201d Heyman said. \u201cI\u2019m saying if you are going to consider people for an award, doesn\u2019t it need to be also taken into consideration that we are doing something that they can\u2019t do?<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd delivering a performance that drives numbers, like now the No. 1 show on all of\u00a0 Netflix (for Raw\u2019s debut) and at the same time drive multimillion-dollar box-office recipes to see the story play out.\u201d<\/p>\n
It brings Heyman back to the fateful day back at the Garden, where the main event was not a wrestling match but a pivotal moment in their weekly story that had been built for weeks on TV, when Sikoa attempted to have him denounce Reigns and accept him as his Tribal Chief.<\/p>\n
Heyman hopes the rest of the entertainment world can begin to recognize the much more sophisticated level of long-term weekly storytelling WWE is doing compared to what might have previously been associated with pro wrestling.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one left asking for a refund,\u201d Heyman said of that night at MSG. \u201cEveryone left feeling they had witnessed something that A, was historic, and B, had ramifications all the way through this year\u2019s WrestleMania.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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