Paul Heyman pays tribute to Triple H

The expression “Paul Heyman Guy” has been used over the years to categorize wrestlers assisted or managed by the Mad Genius: each of them, almost always, won gold or at least became a main eventer or a star of the discipline.

Yet even the man who has accompanied on WWE’s rings various Brock Lesnar, CM Punk and more recently Roman Reigns has people he admires. And one of them is Triple H, not only now that he has a central role in the company.

“I can’t speak for Triple H, I don’t know when or where Paul Levesque managed to earn that level of respect from me. But I can tell you this: I’ve always been a Paul Levesque Guy,” revealed Paul Heyman in a recent and very interesting conversation with Sam Roberts during the podcast ‘Notsam Wrestling’, conducted by him.

Paul Heyman praises Triple H

Paul Heyman then recalled the first time he met Triple H: it happened backstage of the WWF during one of the appearances of the then rampaging ECW at Monday Night Raw (well before the controversial Invasion).

Paul Levesque and Heyman had a conversation about the man who had coached The Game, Killer Kowalski, and Heyman was impressed by the young wrestler’s vision. “The vision he had, as he said things like ‘I love the past and my foundations are based on tradition and rudimentary and fundamental ways of business, but we have to push this forward’; it was the same as today even then, in 1997.

And I thought that, wow, This boy had the pulse of the situation and the future. And at that time he was really just a boy”, recalled Paul Heyman. It all translates into what happens today, week after week in WWE. Paul Heyman went on to describe his current experience working with Paul Levesque in today’s WWE, and said it is an absolute honor because Triple H loves working together and collaborating.

According to the Hall of Famer, the current WWE Boss listens to everyone in the room he is in, gets the best out of everyone’s ideas without sacrificing the overall…