Paul Heyman has been in the professional wrestling business for decades now and it’s safe to say that he’s seen the industry go through ups and downs throughout a number of different eras.
While Heyman has been off TV for some time now due to storyline reasons he’s expected to return as part of The Bloodline storyline at some point. Recently Paul Heyman spoke to Newsweek about what’s next for the future of the industry, and he indicated that he thinks storytelling will be at the forefront.
“An era more of continued transparency. Intelligent discussion of the product itself. Authenticity, in terms of the characters. And just great stories. What’s next for professional wrestling is the same thing that built wrestling’s greatest highs in the attitude era, in 1984 with the expansion, in the ’70s when the territories were on fire, in the ’50s on the DuMont network, dating back to 1905 with Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt.
“It’s the same thing that broke the Yankees and the Red Sox rivalry. The Lakers and the Celtics. The Chicago Bulls and everybody in the NBA in the 1980s. The Pittsburgh Steelers against the Dallas Cowboys.
“Who are these people? Why are they fighting? Why should I care enough to pay to see it? You answer those three questions, you have a viewer. You have a ticket buyer. You have a network subscriber. You have a t-shirt purchaser.”
