Paul Heyman

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Paul Heyman bigraphy, stories - Professional wrestling promoter, manager, and commnentator; entertainment producer

Paul Heyman : biography

September 11, 1965 –

Paul Heyman (born September 11, 1965) is an American entertainment producer, performer and marketing guru currently signed to WWE, where he is the advocate for Brock Lesnar, the manager of Curtis Axel, and the best friend of CM Punk; all dubbed as "Heyman Guys". He is also the co-founder of an advertising marketing and branding firm called The Looking4Larry Agency in New York City, well known for its social media marketing and viral video production and distribution. Heyman is best known for his career in professional wrestling as a promoter, manager, commentator, and journalist.

Heyman was the creative force behind the revolutionary promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling in the 1990s. He has also worked in Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling, the American Wrestling Association and World Wrestling Entertainment, including WWE’s ECW brand where he was recognized as the ECW Representative in front of the camera, and was the general manager and brand manager behind the scenes.

Early life

Heyman was born in Scarsdale, New York, the son of Richard S. Heyman, a prominent personal injury attorney in the Bronx who served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and Sulamita Heyman, a holocaust survivor. Heyman’s family is Jewish.. Slam.canoe.ca. Retrieved on 2012-05-08. By age 11, he was running a mail order business selling celebrity and sports memorabilia from his home.The rise & Fall of ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling. Thom Loverro, Paul Heyman, Tommy Dreamer While still a teenager, Heyman fast-talked his way backstage at a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden as a photojournalist. He was paid by the company for several of his photographs. He attended Suny Purchase and Westchester Community College, where he worked on-air as an opinionated, controversial host at the radio stations, and later became a producer (at the age of 19) and promoter for the New York City nightclub Studio 54 in the mid-1980s.

Awards and accomplishments

  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    • PWI Manager of the Year (1992)
  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
    • Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2005)
    • Best Booker (1994–1997, 2002)
    • Best Non-Wrestler (2001–2002, 2004, 2012)

Video Games

Paul Heyman is featured as a non playable character in the video game WWE Day Of Reckoning.

Outside wrestling

Heyman launched a multimedia project with the paper called The Heyman Hustle, which he describes as "the high definition video blog of a rambling mind." TheSun.co.uk It features video of Heyman interacting with celebrities from various fields of entertainment on the streets of New York City, as well as regular writings of Heyman’s take on the world of professional wrestling, including his thoughts on the McMahon family, the Chris Benoit murder-suicide, Ric Flair’s retirement, and Joey Styles being replaced by Mike Adamle as the ECW play-by-play commentator. Notable guests of the first season of the Hustle include Holly Madison, Ice-T and Coco, James Lipton, Aubrey O’Day, and Jesse Ventura.

The Heyman Hustle became the flagship for NewsCorp’s SUN TV broadband television network, and Heyman expanded the brand in New York City to open an advertising, marketing, and branding firm called The Looking4Larry Agency. Heyman collaborated with award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services to form the company, which immediately signed up EA Sports as their first client.

After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13. In 2011 Heyman worked with Brock Lesnar once again, this time collaborating with him on Lesnar’s autobiography, Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination, and Survival. Amazon.com It was published by William Morrow and Company on May 24, 2011.