WWE: Paul Heyman Signed New Long-Term Deal, WrestleMania 38 News, New WWE 24 Episode

Paul Heyman Signed New Long-Term Contract with WWE Last Year

A recent episode of the Sports Media with Richard Deitsch podcast had Paul Heyman as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Heyman revealing that he had signed a new long-term contract with WWE in 2021.

“It was public knowledge that my contract came up last year and I kept it very close to the vest because I’m not one of those people that A, want to negotiate in public and B, I’m reading an awful lot lately about who’s signed for how long and for how much and I just never want that to be me. This much I will say… I re-signed with WWE last year. It was a long-term agreement and they created a situation where I would have been a fool not to take them up on their offer. So I’m locked in for a while. I also — and this has been the case for a long time with me because I do have outside projects just because I like to multitask and I’m very A.D.D and I just can’t concentrate on one thing at a time ever in my life. I have carve outs to allow me to do other projects, which is also to WWE’s benefit because I’m locked into WWE as well. So I’m always gonna be, oh, that WWE guy is doing this outside project and I would never do anything that would betray my deal with WWE because they went out of their way to make sure that I was here, I’m happy, I’m locked in and we’re mutually satisfied with each other’s contributions to the offer.”

Heyman also gave his thoughts about AEW and while he watches the product, he feels that they are still far away from being able to match what WWE is able to do with their WrestleMania weekends.

“Well first of all, I have no problem putting AEW over if AEW does things that’s worth being put over. I don’t live in a bubble. I would also offer to anybody that wonders why I would be so willing to put over the competition, if you look at WrestleMania and you look at the fact that over the course of these two days, WWE has sold more tickets than to any — and I’m gonna have to call the two nights ‘one event’, okay? We’ve sold more tickets to this event, this WrestleMania than to any other event in WWE history, combine those two nights. So with that in mind and the spectacle that this show will be and you combine that with the worldwide publicity that it’s going to garner and the fact the entire industry is focused on what’s going to happen at WrestleMania and therefore what comes out of WrestleMania, I would argue the case that I could sit here and praise AEW all day long. They can’t match what we’re about to do [this] weekend and until they’re in a position to match what we do [this] weekend, I’m not that concerned with praising the competition because they’re still a long way away from what we do and our level of success and our market dominance. That being said, do I watch AEW? Of course I do, but I also watch everything else that’s out there as well. If I can get my hands on Buenos Aires championship wrestling, I’d watch it. If I can get my hands on… Antarctica all star wrestling, if there is such a thing, I’d watch it. I’d watch it. I watch anything to do with this industry. It’s why I had eyes on Gable Steveson when he was in tenth grade and he was an undefeated high school wrestler that was being touted in Minnesota as the best high school wrestler in the country.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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WrestleMania 38 News & Notes – Dave & Busters Deal, “America The Beautiful” Performers, Stage Reveal

WWE recently announced that they have signed a partnership deal with restaurant and entertainment company Dave & Busters to air both nights of WrestleMania 38 and future WWE events live at their locations across the United States.

WWE also recently announced that country music stars Brantley Gilbert and Jessie James Decker will be performing “America The Beautiful” at their WrestleMania 38 event on April 2-3 in Dallas, Texas. It was announced that Gilbert will be performing the song on Night 1 on April 2nd and Decker will be performing the song on Night 2 on April 3rd.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE will be officially revealing the stage for their upcoming WrestleMania 38 event this Thursday on social media.

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New WWE 24 Episode to Air This Friday

WWE and NBC’s Peacock recently released the full schedule of WWE programming this week on the WWE Network and Peacock service.

Among the new shows airing this week includes a new episode of WWE’s WWE 24 documentary series.

This new episode is titled “WWE 24: Royal Rumble 2022” and will be airing on Friday, April 1st. This upcoming episode will be focusing on this year’s Royal Rumble event, which took place this past January in St. Louis, Missouri.

Full WrestleMania 38 Week schedule:

This Week’s Schedule
** = available on the Free Version of WWE Network

Monday, March 28
Raw Talk** – 11:05 p.m. ET

Wednesday, March 30
Monday Night Raw (2/28/22)**
WWE’s The Bump** – 10 a.m. ET
WWE NXT (3/29/22)

Thursday, March 31
NXT UK – 3 p.m. ET
This Week in WWE

Friday, April 1
WWE 24: Royal Rumble 2022
NXT Level Up – 10 p.m. ET
WWE Hall of Fame 2022 – 10 p.m. ET

Saturday, April 2
WWE Main Event (3/14/22)
La Previa: WrestleMania Saturday
NXT Stand & Deliver Pre-Show** – 12 p.m. ET
NXT Stand & Deliver – 1 p.m. ET
WWE’s The Bump** – 4 p.m. ET
WrestleMania Saturday Kickoff** – 6 p.m. ET
WrestleMania Saturday – 8 p.m. ET

Sunday, April 3
Friday Night SmackDown (4/1/22)**
La Previa: WrestleMania Sunday
The Ultimate WrestleMania – 10 a.m. ET
WWE’s The Bump** – 4 p.m. ET
WrestleMania Sunday Kickoff – 6 p.m. ET
WrestleMania Sunday – 8 p.m. ET