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Taken from Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorized Story of Paul Heyman's heat with Stephanie McMahon
Heyman's passion eventually led to his outster from the writing team. Hecrafted a three-way feud (between the teams of Chris Benoit & KurtAngle, Chavo & Eddy Guerrero, and Edge & Rey Mysterio) on Smackdown!that was creating genuine buzz, but he soon ran afoul of another McMahon---- Stephanie.
Vince McMahon's Daughter grew up around wrestling and seemed to be theone groomed to take over the company from her father. According topeople working behind the scenes, she also loved to displayruthlessness, one of her father's most valued traits.Starting in 2001, Heyman also displayed a trait the elder McMahonclaimed to have valued ---- honesty.
Surrounding Vince was a cadre ofyes-men, people only too happy to tell him how brilliant every one ofhis ideas was.Heyman was not the only one close to McMahon willing to be brutally honest, but he was the most vocal.By 2003, Stephanie & Heyman were already at different ends, creativelyspeaking. As head writer, she apparently believed that Heyman was movingthings in directions that were not necessarily her directions. Heymanappeared to believe that Stephanie had no concept of the business intowhich she had been born.
Their conflicts came to a head in a writers meeting when Stephanie toldHeyman about a segment she wanted on an upcoming show. The idea was onethat Vince himself had shot down, and Heyman told her that for that veryreason he did not want to include it.Her response, according to one WWE insider, was, "You can put it inthere, or I'll put it in there."Heyman said that if those were his choices, he would prefer she put herpet segment into the show, so he would not have to explain to herfather, the company chairman, why he violated Vince McMahon's edict.Stephanie grew flustered and began to tell Heyman, "Paul, If I were you----"
Heyman cut her off & reportedly said, "But you're not me, because you'venever built anything up from scratch, you've never had to fight back foryour very survival, so you're definitely not ----"
This time, it was Stephanie's turn to cut off Heyman, as she appeared tobecome her shrieking television character, leaning right into Heyman'sface and screaming, "Shut up!"Heyman looked right back at her & said, "**** off."As if daring Heyman to repeat the epithet that had stunned the rest ofthe writing team into silence, Stephanie said, "Excuse me?"Heyman asked her which of his two words that she had been unable todiscern, and she stormed out of the room.The next day, Heyman found himself in another meeting with Stephanie,this time joined by a WWE human resources executive.
Shortly,thereafter, Heyman found himself explaining the heated exchange to Vincehimself. Heyman reminded McMahon that the WWE chairman would never standfor someone getting in his face as Stephanie had gotten into Heyman's.Ultimately, Heyman admitted to McMahon that he should not have said whathe did. However, he told McMahon that was only because he had meant totell Stephanie to go **** herself when "**** off!" came out instead.To the surprise of no one, Heyman found himself off of the writing team.
He would go on to have brief stints both in front of the camera (playingthe role of Smackdown! GM, ironically replacing Stephanie in the on-airposition in a role similiar to the one Tod Gordon had played in ECW) andbehind the scenes.After providing the blueprint for the ECW: One Night Stand ppv in June2005, Heyman was sent to Louisville, Kentucky to write TV for OhioValley Wrestling, one of WWE's feeder circuits for trainees. Heymanreplaced Jim Cornette, whose career as an in-ring manager & upstartpromoter oddly mirrored Heyman's career in many ways.
Some in theindustry saw the move as a final slap in the face from the McMahonfamily, but Heyman turned it into a feather in his cap, by making OVWthe best booked wrestling show i the country. By late 2005, Raw &Smackdown! were unwatchable as often as not, but for viewers in thearea, under Heyman's tutelage, OVW was must-see westling TV.
As ifraising a middle finger to all the critics of his booking, Heyman builtprograms that quickly led to increases in both crowd size & crowdfervor, proving he could book successfully without a cutting-edgeproduction duo & without the monstrous talent budget of WWE.
Taken from Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorized Story of Paul Heyman's heat with Stephanie McMahon
Heyman's passion eventually led to his outster from the writing team. Hecrafted a three-way feud (between the teams of Chris Benoit & KurtAngle, Chavo & Eddy Guerrero, and Edge & Rey Mysterio) on Smackdown!that was creating genuine buzz, but he soon ran afoul of another McMahon---- Stephanie.
Vince McMahon's Daughter grew up around wrestling and seemed to be theone groomed to take over the company from her father. According topeople working behind the scenes, she also loved to displayruthlessness, one of her father's most valued traits.Starting in 2001, Heyman also displayed a trait the elder McMahonclaimed to have valued ---- honesty.
Surrounding Vince was a cadre ofyes-men, people only too happy to tell him how brilliant every one ofhis ideas was.Heyman was not the only one close to McMahon willing to be brutally honest, but he was the most vocal.By 2003, Stephanie & Heyman were already at different ends, creativelyspeaking. As head writer, she apparently believed that Heyman was movingthings in directions that were not necessarily her directions. Heymanappeared to believe that Stephanie had no concept of the business intowhich she had been born.
Their conflicts came to a head in a writers meeting when Stephanie toldHeyman about a segment she wanted on an upcoming show. The idea was onethat Vince himself had shot down, and Heyman told her that for that veryreason he did not want to include it.Her response, according to one WWE insider, was, "You can put it inthere, or I'll put it in there."Heyman said that if those were his choices, he would prefer she put herpet segment into the show, so he would not have to explain to herfather, the company chairman, why he violated Vince McMahon's edict.Stephanie grew flustered and began to tell Heyman, "Paul, If I were you----"
Heyman cut her off & reportedly said, "But you're not me, because you'venever built anything up from scratch, you've never had to fight back foryour very survival, so you're definitely not ----"
This time, it was Stephanie's turn to cut off Heyman, as she appeared tobecome her shrieking television character, leaning right into Heyman'sface and screaming, "Shut up!"Heyman looked right back at her & said, "**** off."As if daring Heyman to repeat the epithet that had stunned the rest ofthe writing team into silence, Stephanie said, "Excuse me?"Heyman asked her which of his two words that she had been unable todiscern, and she stormed out of the room.The next day, Heyman found himself in another meeting with Stephanie,this time joined by a WWE human resources executive.
Shortly,thereafter, Heyman found himself explaining the heated exchange to Vincehimself. Heyman reminded McMahon that the WWE chairman would never standfor someone getting in his face as Stephanie had gotten into Heyman's.Ultimately, Heyman admitted to McMahon that he should not have said whathe did. However, he told McMahon that was only because he had meant totell Stephanie to go **** herself when "**** off!" came out instead.To the surprise of no one, Heyman found himself off of the writing team.
He would go on to have brief stints both in front of the camera (playingthe role of Smackdown! GM, ironically replacing Stephanie in the on-airposition in a role similiar to the one Tod Gordon had played in ECW) andbehind the scenes.After providing the blueprint for the ECW: One Night Stand ppv in June2005, Heyman was sent to Louisville, Kentucky to write TV for OhioValley Wrestling, one of WWE's feeder circuits for trainees. Heymanreplaced Jim Cornette, whose career as an in-ring manager & upstartpromoter oddly mirrored Heyman's career in many ways.
Some in theindustry saw the move as a final slap in the face from the McMahonfamily, but Heyman turned it into a feather in his cap, by making OVWthe best booked wrestling show i the country. By late 2005, Raw &Smackdown! were unwatchable as often as not, but for viewers in thearea, under Heyman's tutelage, OVW was must-see westling TV.
As ifraising a middle finger to all the critics of his booking, Heyman builtprograms that quickly led to increases in both crowd size & crowdfervor, proving he could book successfully without a cutting-edgeproduction duo & without the monstrous talent budget of WWE.
so forgive me and blame my ****ty computer 
People on here can be pr*cks sometimes.
