Sunday night Paul Heyman will be accompanying Brock Lesnar to the ring at WrestleMania. Brock is set to defend his Universal Championship against Roman Reigns, and it’s expected that Brock vs. Roman will be the main event the Show of Shows this year.
This won’t be the first time that Paul Heyman has walked with Brock Lesnar to the ring for the main event of WrestleMania, but there’s another wrestler that Heyman was once associated with in WWE who never got the honor of main eventing the show, and that is CM Punk.
Punk hasn’t been shy about letting the world know that he wanted to main event WrestleMania, and part of the reason why he left the company was because he was never given that chance.
Paul Heyman was asked during a recent interview with Paste Magazine if he thinks Punk’s reaction was justified, but Heyman said that it doesn’t matter what he thinks.
“It doesn’t matter what I think. It matters what Phil Brooks thinks. If in Phil Brooks’s heart he is a righteous man by saying, “I want the WrestleMania main event, I earned the WrestleMania main event, I feel that is my destiny, or there is nothing for me to pursue”—if he feels that he is a righteous man by saying, “now that I understand that there is nothing left to pursue, so I’m out”—then he is a righteous man. If Phil Brooks doesn’t think it was righteous for him to do it, then he’s not a righteous man. But it’s not for me to judge Phil Brooks as to what is right or wrong or whether he feels justified or not.”
Heyman was then asked if he’s still in contact with Punk, but in classic Paul Heyman fashion, he answered the question without giving a direct answer.
“Whether I am or I’m not, is a matter between friends, and since we have no business out in front of the public anything I would say about Phil Brooks as a friend, a former friend, a future friend, would be revealing a trust between us that I choose to remain loyal as someone who keeps our personal conversations personal. This man knows my children. If soembody knows my children, I don’t expect them be on podcasts going “oh yeah, I had pizza with Paul Heyman’s children” and blah blah blah. I don’t talk about their personal conversations and they never talk about mine.”
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