Paul Heyman Calls Triple H The "Best Editor He Has Ever Worked With" In WWE

Paul Heyman calls Vince McMahon a “dictator” and Triple H a “collaborator.”© Image via : WWE Network

Paul Heyman called Vince McMahon a “dictator” and Triple H a “collaborator” while comparing how the two handled WWE creative. The WWE Hall of Famer made the comments on a podcast with Graham Bensinger, and he got pretty specific about what pitching to McMahon was like, where the job was winning over a boss who often had his own vision. Heyman also praised Paul Levesque, which is Triple H's real name, for listening to different perspectives and improving ideas instead of starting from scratch.

Paul Heyman explains why Vince McMahon had the final say over WWE creative

Heyman said McMahon owning WWE shaped how writers and creative staff had to work. Ideas got pitched in the hope that McMahon would sign off, even when he already had a different direction in mind.

“Vince was a dictator. It was his money. And therefore it's his show,” Heyman said.

Then he talked about the pressure of presenting to McMahon, who was the final authority on what made it to the screen. According to Heyman, the job meant constantly trying to get McMahon to buy into a pitch instead of going with his own ideas.

“It's the constant chase for Vince to buy into your ideas over his own. That's the dynamic of pitching Vince McMahon,” he added.

Heyman still accepted that McMahon had the right to make the final call, even if the decision wasn't necessarily the right one. As he put it, “He's right. He has the right to be wrong. It's his show. Give me your best shot.”

Triple H earns Paul Heyman's praise for editing ideas instead of imposing his own vision

Heyman had a very different description for Triple H, the current WWE Chief Content Officer. He praised him for working with people and not expecting everyone to follow a fixed creative direction.

“Paul Levesque is not a dictator. He's a collaborator,” Heyman said.

The difference, as Heyman explained it, is that McMahon liked a blank page while Triple H is more comfortable with ideas that were already developed. He called Levesque “the best editor I've ever worked with in my entire life,” and credited him for hearing out people who see things another way.

“His vision is to listen to very smart people that have different ideas than he does,” Heyman said.

That approach reaches to the backstage team too. Former TNA World Champion Eric Young has reportedly returned to the company in a producer role for NXT, and PWInsider reported that he'd been working behind the scenes since July.

The report tied the return to Young's good relationship with Levesque, who had earlier promised him an open door back to WWE.