Do you still love Paul Heyman?

**Fox** · 04-07-2008, 04:53 PM

I love Paul Heyman; I think he is a creative genius whose contributions to the wrestling world as a whole cannot truly be calculated, as they have spread and evolved that much over time.

But in this instance, Paul Heyman: shut the fuck up.

The HOF, WrestleMania 24 against HBM, and then the ceremony on RAW will be remembered as some of the greatest moments in WWE history. This is the end of Ric Flair's in-ring career, something people have been talking about since 1996 for Christ's sake.

And Paul Heyman, who is a wrestling genius but also a huge wrestling fan, was not there and had nothing to do with this huge moment. Where is Paul Heyman, anyways? Oh, that's right, he's nowhere. It's clear from his cynicism and attitude that a part of Paul Heyman wishes he could be Ric Flair on that night, and maybe realizes that apart from ONS, he will never have that kind of moment.

Who knows the relationship between Ric Flair and Chris Jericho? I know they worked together several times in 2003 after Flair came back to the company; how much those matches meant to Flair I do not know. Whether or not John Cena are "friends" or not, Cena is the face of the new generation of the business, and his appearance at the end of the ceremony was purely symbolic if nothing else, but meaningfully so. Flair is out; Cena is in. Hard to understand? No. I don't think so.

Did we NEED to see Flair low-blow Vince, put someone in the Figure Four, or elbow drop his jacket? No. We saw those things on last week's RAW and at WrestleMania. RAW 3/31/2008 was about the end of the in-ring career of the Nature Boy - not the continution of some sort of never-ending angle. It was a commemoration moment, and if Heyman has problems with tears being shed for the third consecutive night, then it's probably because he's crying over the fact that he will never be commemorated in this way himself.

04-07-2008, 04:53 PM	#27
Fox "Ask him!" Posts: 10,075	I love Paul Heyman; I think he is a creative genius whose contributions to the wrestling world as a whole cannot truly be calculated, as they have spread and evolved that much over time. But in this instance, Paul Heyman: shut the fuck up. The HOF, WrestleMania 24 against HBM, and then the ceremony on RAW will be remembered as some of the greatest moments in WWE history. This is the end of Ric Flair's in-ring career, something people have been talking about since 1996 for Christ's sake. And Paul Heyman, who is a wrestling genius but also a huge wrestling fan, was not there and had nothing to do with this huge moment. Where is Paul Heyman, anyways? Oh, that's right, he's nowhere. It's clear from his cynicism and attitude that a part of Paul Heyman wishes he could be Ric Flair on that night, and maybe realizes that apart from ONS, he will never have that kind of moment. Who knows the relationship between Ric Flair and Chris Jericho? I know they worked together several times in 2003 after Flair came back to the company; how much those matches meant to Flair I do not know. Whether or not John Cena are "friends" or not, Cena is the face of the new generation of the business, and his appearance at the end of the ceremony was purely symbolic if nothing else, but meaningfully so. Flair is out; Cena is in. Hard to understand? No. I don't think so. Did we NEED to see Flair low-blow Vince, put someone in the Figure Four, or elbow drop his jacket? No. We saw those things on last week's RAW and at WrestleMania. RAW 3/31/2008 was about the end of the in-ring career of the Nature Boy - not the continution of some sort of never-ending angle. It was a commemoration moment, and if Heyman has problems with tears being shed for the third consecutive night, then it's probably because he's crying over the fact that he will never be commemorated in this way himself.