WWE’s longest storyline so for almost 2 years now is the ‘love triangle‘ between Roman Reigns, Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar. Heyman has been jumping ship at any chance he gets. Whenever Lesnar is away, Heyman tries to push another wrestler towards stardom. But, whenever Lesnar returns, Heyman returns to advocate the Beast.
Heyman was being the Wise-man alongside Roman Reigns and as usual, when Lesnar returned, Heyman returned to serve the Beast. All this changed at the Royal Rumble event when Heyman betrayed Lesnar and acknowledge the Tribal Chief, Roman Reigns. This past Friday, Heyman explained why he did so.
The journey of Paul Heyman in the WWE
Paul Heyman kicked off his career as a commentator and then in 2002 became the advocate of Brock Lesnar. When Lesnar left WWE in 2004, Heyman went on to run the ECW brand. Heyman then decided to help talented superstars reach the top. Superstars like Ryback, Cesaro and even the son of Mr. Perfect, Curtis Axel pledged to be a ‘Paul Heyman Guy‘. But out of all the people, CM Punk was the one to capitalise on Heyman’s wisdom and became the longest-reigning WWE Champion of all time.
Brock Lesnar returned in 2012 and Heyman turned on Punk and yet again rejoined the Beast Incarnate. Shortly after, Lesnar broke Punk’s record by becoming the longest reigning WWE Universal Champion with a reign of 503 days. In the absence of Brock Lesnar, Heyman became the head of the Tribal Council for Roman Reigns and just like the other two ‘Paul Heyman guys‘ Roman Reigns became the longest reigning Universal Champion.
At SummerSlam last year, Brock Lesnar made his shocking return. Since then, the one question that was looming in everyone’s mind was “Where does Heyman’s loyalty lie?”
During an episode of Smackdown Heyman was asked by Roman why Heyman is still with Reigns. Heyman said, “I am protecting Roman Reigns from Brock Lesnar.” Roman took offence to that and so he fired the wise-man. Reigns even superman punched Heyman. Lesnar took Heyman as his advocate once again.
Within a week of Lesnar and Heyman reuniting, Lesnar became the WWE Champion. Sadly, that did not last too long as Lesnar lost the WWE title to Bobby Lashley at the Royal Rumble event. The sole reason Lesnar lost was because he was betrayed by Paul Heyman.
Paul Heyman explains he turned on Brock Lesnar
Friday night SmackDown kicked off with the Tribal Chief and his wise man. Heyman got the microphone and told the WWE Universe why he once again joined hands with Roman Reigns. Heyman said that he was a fool to think that he was protecting Reigns from Lesnar. Heyman said that he was indeed protecting Lesnar from Reigns. He smartly made the plan for Reigns to be champion on SmackDown while Lesnar was going to be champion on Raw. Lesnar spoiled this plan when he decided to challenge Roman in a Champion vs Champion match. Thus Heyman decided to make the smart move and rejoin Roman Reigns.
“I needed to protect @BrockLesnar from @WWERomanReigns.” – @HeymanHustle #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/eZR8YaHO7x
— WWE India (@WWEIndia) February 5, 2022
This is the first time that Heyman has ever betrayed Brock Lesnar. If I was Heyman, I would keep my distance from Brock Lesnar and even avoid mentioning the Beast.
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