WWE's Paul Heyman Explains Differences Between Working With Vince McMahon & Triple H

WWE Hall of Famer Paul Heyman has worked with plenty of top wrestling executives throughout his decades-long career, perhaps most notably, the over-the-top Vince McMahon, and most recently, Paul "Triple H" Levesque, who took over for his father-in-law in 2022. Heyman recently sat down on "In Depth with Graham Bensinger," where he compared the two bosses and creative minds.

Heyman said that Levesque's creative department is much different from McMahon's, as they have "distinctly different" personalities. He called McMahon a "dictator."

"It was his money, and therefore, it's his show," Heyman said. "You better be good at pitching. It's the constant chase for Vince to buy into your ideas over his own. That's the dynamic of pitching Vince McMahon. He's right. He has the right to be wrong. It's his show... If you can sell Vince, you can sell the talent. You can sell the lieutenants, and you can sell the audience. If you're that good of a salesman, he's going to buy it, and then it's his idea, because he gets the credit because he's the owner."

Heyman explained that's not the way things work in WWE today. He called Levesque a "collaborator," not a dictator. He explained while McMahon wanted a blank sheet of paper, Levesque accepts something with writing on it already.

"He's the best editor I've ever worked with in my entire life," Heyman said. "He's an open collaborator that walks in the room with no expectations of his own vision. His vision is to listen to very smart people that have different ideas than he does. He's a collaborator the likes of which I've never had the pleasure of working with."

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