On the latest episode of Bruce Prichard (Brother Love)‘s “Something To Wrestle With” podcast, Prichard discussed Paul Heyman and Heyman’s tenure in the WWE. During the podcast, Prichard spoke on what brought Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar together to form a duo that WWE fans would still see to this very day.
Here’s what Prichard had to say: (transcript by Still Real To Us)
Prichard: “Paul was a big advocate of Brock Lesnar then, behind the scenes it was, hell it was a meal ticket number one for him. We knew, we didn’t think that Brock could talk. We didn’t think that Brock would be able to cut a good promo. We knew what we had as far as the athlete in Brock Lesnar, we knew what we had as far as the beast, we knew what we had when that bell rang, Brock was gonna deliver. [Brock Lesnar] just looks like a badass, but he wasn’t a badass when it came to cutting promos. He needed a mouthpiece. So you take an All-American kid and you put him with a sleazy manager like Paul Heyman, the last person that you think he would connect with and they mad a great pair. But that; Paul lobbied pretty hard for that, to be the mouth piece of Brock Lesnar and it was an easy lobby cause it made sense. That one was a really easy pitch because everybody was on Team Lesnar saying ‘we need to bring him in, he’s ready to come in’ but I don’t know if he’s gonna be able to handle it on the promo side and Paul cutting his promos for him worked.”
