Paul Heyman says WWE scrapped two separate main event plans for WrestleMania 42 before landing on the current card, and he isn't shy about how he feels being left out of the top spot for the first time since 2019.
Heyman made the revelations in an interview with his son, Jacob Heyman, on Instagram. WrestleMania 42 will see Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton close Night One and Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk close Night Two at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, but that was not the original plan.
Two Main Events That Fell Apart
Heyman laid out both scrapped directions and didn't dress it up:
I don't think it's a big secret that everything was driving this year to be Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns, and then that fell apart. And then it was going to be Bron Breakker vs. CM Punk, and that fell apart.
Rollins vs. Reigns was the intended direction before Rollins' injury took it off the board.
"It Pisses Me Off"
Heyman has been in a WrestleMania main event every year from WrestleMania 36 through WrestleMania 41.
Yeah, it pisses me off. I was in line to be a part of the main event this year, but fate intervened not once but even twice.
In Heyman's view, Lesnar vs. Femi is the real main event of WrestleMania 42, even if the record books won't list it that way. He said the experience has him motivated to work harder heading into next year and to build out contingency plans of his own, so he isn't the one getting bumped again when someone else's circumstances change.
Elsewhere in the interview, Heyman delivered powerful messages about what motivates him to keep going at this stage in his career, and the lessons he wants his children to learn by watching him this week in Las Vegas for WrestleMania and in life.
For a guy who spent six straight years engineering the biggest matches on the biggest show of the year, being one of the people shuffled out rather than one of the people doing the shuffling is clearly the part that stings.
