Sporting News recently interviewed Brock Lesnar’s advocate, Paul Heyman. Heyman discussed Survivor series, what could be next for Brock Lesnar, and more. Below are some highlights.
Heyman on taking the fault for failing to turn Brock Lesnar’s hometown crowd against him: “I’ll take full blame for it. I’ll tell you why. If I am, as people claim that I am, the best or one of the best or one of the greatest fill in the adjective of all time in terms of someone who can deliver a promo, and if I can go out in Chicago, right before WrestleMania, when CM Punk had just walked out and the 18,000 people in Chicago were hellbent and driven on hijacking that show — I opened the show coming out to Punk’s music, sit down in his pose, never raise my voice, shut them up, lure them in, get them to buy that I’m on their side, double cross them and sell them on Brock Lesnar versus Undertaker and shut down the CM Punk chant all without ever raising my voice — then I’m surely talented enough to go into Minneapolis and manipulate the crowd to say or do anything I want them to say or do.
“That’s my job. I am supposed to take an impossible situation and make it look easy. And if I am as good as people say that I am, and I dare suggest I’m better than that, then Minneapolis would have been just another story to add to the story of Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman. Ultimately, I failed in my task and I own up to my failures like a man and I accept them and I move forward. Lesson learned. If I’m faced with a similar situation again, I know what I would do differently but I’m surely not going to reveal it to the public because then they’ll know how I’m going to handle it.”
Heyman on what big matches are left for Lesnar: “If our dance card wasn’t filled by Goldberg this year, I thought the match should be Brock Lesnar versus the SmackDown roster in terms of the inter-promotional offering for Survivor Series because that could be a fair fight. And then next year’s Survivor Series, we could do Brock Lesnar versus the Raw roster since, obviously, the Raw roster would be both jealous and envious of the ease at which Brock Lesnar would dispose of the SmackDown roster.”
On if he sees Lesnar fighting in MMA again: “When Brock Lesnar beat the number eight ranked heavyweight in the world Mark Hunt over the summer, Brock was asked by the media if he intended on fighting again. And at that time gave the quintessential answer as to Brock Lesnar’s plans for the future — Brock Lesnar does what Brock Lesnar wants to do. And any question that can ever be presented to me about whether plans to fight, whether Brock plans to wrestle, who Brock Lesnar feels like wrestling, if he were to fight, what opponents does he eyeball, can all be encapsulated with that one answer. And I respectfully submit to you that is the perfect answer for anything regarding what Brock Lesnar will do past this Sunday and what Brock Lesnar will do in the ring to Goldberg. Brock Lesnar does what Brock Lesnar wants to do.”
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