Paul Heyman on WWE’s creative leadership: “Paul Levesque is the best person for that job”

He’s brilliant at taking a look at the landscape and understanding: Does this make sense? Is it logical? Does the storyline work? Will it create box office, interest, and intrigue? Does it work for the characters involved? Does it progress the characters involved and take them from being characters on a television show into becoming attractions?

Look at the past eight to ten months in WWE. Oba Femi has become an attraction. Trick Williams has become an attraction. If Je’Von Evans is not labeled an attraction by the end of this summer, then someone’s either not looking at it from the right perspective or we messed up. And I don’t think we’re going to mess up with Je’Von Evans.

There’s a whole bunch of other people as well. Sol Ruca is going to be a star, an absolute bona fide attraction. Look at these people emerging.

We’re how many years now into the Paul Levesque reign? It’s a matter of serving all of these content needs on a creative basis, and he’s doing it better now than he did just a couple of years ago when I stood during my Hall of Fame speech and told everybody, ‘I’m a Paul Levesque guy.’

Because it’s not just how he guides us. It’s the manner in which he does so, and the collaborative effort with him is even better now than it was then.

So, you give me a few billion dollars and say, ‘Start a wrestling company,’ I’m hiring him for the job.”