Paul Heyman

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02:56I'm

02:58I'm just a

03:00I'm just a Jew boy from the Bronx.

03:02How do I reveal myself just as me?

03:06I've never haven't done it in 40 something years except at home.

03:10And, and Van Damme says in his eloquent manner.

03:25So, I

03:26I

03:27I figured I

03:28I gotta, I gotta figure this out. I gotta ask someone who would understand what would I, myself, you know, just, just Paul, no middle name Haman is like.

03:36So, so I asked my son, Jacob, who's sitting right there.

03:46Next to his sister Azalea, my daughter.

03:52And they're sitting next to a man for whom I have indescribable respect.

03:58And, and

04:00I said to my son, Jacob, how

04:04do I present myself as me?

04:06And, and Jacob picked his head up and he said,

04:12Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:14Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:16The rest of the stash is in the car.

04:18And

04:20I said to my son, Jacob, how

04:22do I present myself as me?

04:24And, and Jacob picked his head up and he said,

04:26Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:28Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:30Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:32Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:36The rest of the stash is in the car.

04:38Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:40Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:42Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:44Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:46Ask Van Damme, Dad!

04:47I'm the beneficiary of mass praise for doing with my life exactly what I wanted to do with my life.

05:01I

05:07get to work

05:09with the men

05:11and the women

05:13in this beautiful

05:15performance art

05:17known as sports

05:19and professional

05:21wrestling.

05:23I

05:33am the first pick,

05:35the first person announced,

05:37the first headliner in a class completely picked by Paul Levesque.

05:45His name is

05:47and the

05:49first headliner in a role

05:51to join.

05:52Just join!

05:53Just join!

05:54Just join!

05:55Just join!

05:56Just join!

05:57Just join!

05:58Just join!

05:59Just join!

06:00Just join!

06:01Just join!

06:02Only one person can drive the car out of chaos.

06:04Only one person can assume true control of the locker room.

06:08Only one person can assume true control of the locker room.

06:12And the leadership that was sorely needed by the men and the women in this beautiful performance art

06:20has been bestowed upon us by that man sitting right there, Paul Levesque.

06:38Of course, I always break the rules when I come out here and do these promos,

06:41and the one thing that Paul Levesque asked me was,

06:43Hey, please don't speak about me.

06:48But the way that this man has assumed the pencil of this company

06:57and has led us to a creative freedom backstage

07:01where more are emerging into the main events in front of your very eyes.

07:11And the manner in which he will let me tell you for prosperity into that camera

07:21for the rest of my life, I will be a Paul Levesque guy.

07:31I will also call to your

07:53I will also call to your attention that his lovely bride, Stephanie, is here this evening.

08:16If my daughter grows up to be half the woman that Stephanie is,

08:21I assure you, I will have raised a great lady in my household.

08:29I would also like to call to your attention that Stephanie is wearing a cap adorned with the letters ECW.

08:41I think at this point, after all these years, it's time for Stephanie to admit she married the wrong Paul.

09:23just a moment and then we'll get to ECW. To my children. This is what I want you to do with your

09:48lives. It's not about the money. I don't mean to do it on television. I don't mean that you get to sit

09:56in the front row with these luminaries whose accomplishments in life and in this industry

10:04pale by comparison to what I've done. And by the way, if anybody here screws with you,

10:15you're two seats down from Haku.

10:31It's not about the money. It's about being worthy of people's respect. It's about being worthy of

10:43their admiration. It's about pursuing your dreams and failing and going after them again and again

10:51and again and again and failing 101 times and succeeding on the 101st.

10:58It's about waking up the next morning and you can't wait to get into it because the world just

11:10isn't fucking ready for you. Pursue your dreams. Pursue your happiness. And I promise you one day you

11:23will be standing on a podium in front of a group of your peers and your fans and your friends and your

11:32family and your children and you will hear the love for the body of work that you put together with the

11:42true passion of your lives.

11:48I have been an orator for 40 years of my life. My father was a far greater orator than I could ever hope to be.

11:57And I will never find the words to convey to the two of you how much I desperately love you both.

12:06If you'll indulge me for one more moment, I would just like to publicly say I so wish my mother was here tonight to see this.

12:25I so wish my father was here tonight to see this.

12:53I so wish your father was here tonight to see this too.

13:21I love me too.

13:45Well, I think that covers all the mush, right?

13:55I guess now it's time to talk about ECW.

14:10I think that covers all the mush.

14:12I think that covers all the mush.

14:14It's time to talk about ECW.

14:16I'm so wish your father was here tonight to see this.

14:18I think that covers all the mush.

14:20I think that covers all the mush.

14:22I think that covers all the mush.

14:24Holy

14:48The real one I think I broke this over the head of sting

14:57When Rick rude became the United States heavyweight champion fuck the company called WCW

15:18There comes a time in the life of every man where he has to accept reality

15:45The reality to this man is that in 1993 this industry sucked

15:56Oh we had your plumbers and we had your garbage men and we had your clowns running around

16:03But what happened to the love of the art of professional wrestling?

16:09I was a kid running around both way into the back of Madison Square Garden

16:17And all I could think of was man, let me get my hands on this and I will show them away

16:24I will show them the way this business

16:27Shut up kid, shut up kid, shut up kid

16:30Yeah, all right

16:31Here's what happened

16:32I go to WCW, they wouldn't listen to your wise man and I said well, okay

16:38We need to find some place that will accept these ideas that will accept this vision

16:42That will look into the future that will bring hip-hop into wrestling

16:47That will bring heavy metal into wrestling

16:50That will bring sexy women fighting each other and real men bashing each other right in the face

16:56We need to put people through tables

16:58We need to climb the ladder all the way up to the top

17:01We need to create the tribe of the extreme

17:06And it would never have happened any other place but in Philadelphia

17:17Where did Stone Cold Steve Austin drink his first beer

17:29Right down the road in a bingo hall on the corner of Swanson and Wittner called the ECW Arena

17:39Where did the Dudley's say you're going through the table tonight and everybody's gonna like it

18:08So D-Von, get the f***ing table

18:11Where did Rob Van Dam light up an audience as much as he was lighting up the joints backstage?

18:23In ECW

18:26Bubba Ray Dudley says it best

18:37ECW wasn't meant to last

18:40We were meant to go out in a blaze of glory

18:41We were Napster

18:42We were here to change the business

18:44We were here to disrupt the industry

18:46And it's exactly what we did

18:48For those of you who say

18:51That the concept of extreme died

18:54On the corner of Swanson and Wittner

18:56I beg to disagree

18:59For those of you who will say

19:02That ECW lives no more

19:07I respectfully disagree

19:10With your assessment

19:11And for those of you who don't realize

19:15That ECW is alive today

19:17In the matches that are performed in front of you

19:20In the concepts that have been adopted by the entire industry

19:24In the passion of the fan base

19:26That still comes today

19:27To WWE and any other wrestling promotion

19:31On the face of this planet

19:32If you think that the spirit of ECW died

19:39In a bankruptcy court in 2001

19:42You can...

20:08CM Punk just leaned over to my son and said your dad just got himself canceled again.

20:23And here's the funny part of it all ladies and gentlemen, they ain't gonna cancel me

20:29because they know if they do I'm coming back bigger, badder, stronger than ever before.

20:38They canceled me in WCW, I became the manager of the Samoan SWAT team.

20:45They canceled me with the Samoan SWAT team, I became the manager of Mean Mark, who I then

20:51passed on to Bruce Prichard behind WCW's back and he is forever the Undertaker.

20:59They canceled me with Mean Mark and I become Jim Ross's colored commentator because somebody

21:04had to show that Okie had to do announcing.

21:09When they canceled me as a commentator, I came back with the Dangerous Alliance.

21:15When they canceled me out of WCW, I came back with ECW.

21:23When they canceled ECW, I came to WWE and who do I end up with?

21:30And when the entire world got canceled out by the zombie apocalypse that we've come to

21:53known as the pandemic and Brock Lesnar went home to Saskatchewan to kill things that he could

22:00put on the plate to feed his family.

22:04That wasn't a knock on Hardcore Holly.

22:11For those of you who don't understand, Google it, bitches, I'm not here to educate you tonight.

22:19And then I got canceled as the executive director of Monday Night Raw and here I am in my mid-50s

22:27and my 800-pound gorilla is home in Saskatchewan and I'm out of any creative influence and you

22:34think I've been canceled.

22:38And I'm swimming in the ocean of obscurity and I'm rescued onto the island of relevancy

22:47by your tribal chief, the head of the table, the goat, the greatest of all time, Roman Reigns.

23:01For the young men and women sitting around this ring and up on that stage, the message tonight

23:17is simple.

23:19They can't cancel you.

23:22Only you can cancel you.

23:25Only you can stop yourself from living out your dreams.

23:30Only you can let them cancel you.

23:34I've been canceled a hundred times in this business.

23:37I'll come back a hundred and one.

23:39They canceled me on a hundred and one.

23:41I'll come back bigger, better, stronger, more extreme and wiser in a hundred and two.

23:49I have the honor and the privilege of working not only with Roman Reigns and the Usos and Solo and a Samoan dynasty that will rule for hundreds of years to come.

24:06I work with the future of this business.

24:10I get to work with Braun Breaker.

24:13I get to work with Rhea Ripley.

24:17I get to work with Carmelo Hayes.

24:24I get to work with Trick Williams.

24:26I get to work with Jade Cargill.

24:29And I see the things in them that I saw the generation before them with Steve Austin and The Undertaker and Rikishi and CM Punk and Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch.

24:48And she's sitting behind me and I'm probably next to her wonderful husband, her biggest fan in the world.

24:57I've gotten to work with Charlotte Flair.

25:00So let's take this bitch home, shall we?

25:14Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Paul Heyman.

25:23Welcome to the class of 2024, Paul of Fame.

25:30I stand before you not only as the former advocate for Barack Lesnar.

25:38I stand before you as the best friend and biggest fan of Chicago's very own CM Punk.

25:48And I stand before you as special counsel and a wise man to the reigning, defending, undisputed, WWE Universal Heavyweight Champion, Roman Reigns.