Rob Van Dam believes Paul Heyman is the greatest booker of all time.
During the latest edition of his “1 Of a Kind” podcast, the 21-time ECW, WWE and TNA/Impact Wrestling Champion commented on Paul Heyman’s booking skills, rolling joints with the late Iron Sheik, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On rolling joints with The Iron Sheik: “He was telling me that he had smoke, you know, wanted me to roll something and I didn’t know how to roll back then. I was what? 24, 25, 26, whatever, 26 I think. And I was just like, ‘I don’t wanna waste your weed.’ He is like, ‘No, it’s okay.’ And he was guaranteeing me I’d do better than him. And it was a big pregnant joint in the middle and I spilled half of his weed doing it.”
On if he considers Paul Heyman the greatest booker of all time: “I think you know that as far as booking goes, in my opinion, I think he’s the best. And that’s also because I like his stuff in particular. He got a lot of pushback from the WWE office in 2001 during the Alliance. A lot of his ideas got opposed. Same thing when we brought ECW back for the Sci-Fi network. A lot of his ideas were opposed. There were other bookers in the office that think completely different. They would think it’s ridiculous. I think Paul’s got the best ideas cause they thought the exact opposite and tried to stop all of his ideas. But I agree with that sentence that he’s the best that I know of.”