16 Things We Learned From Paul Heyman On The Steve Austin Show
4. Fighting With Vince In Mid-Air
Austin asks about an infamous plane ride in 2006 where Vince and Paul had a big blowup, and Paul said he didn't know if he should discuss it since McMahon never had talked about it publicly, but gives the explanation in a nutshell.
"It was time for me to go. I had lost my passion and my purpose in the industry. We had resurrected the ECW brand and that was very personal to me and I didn't like the way it was going. It became a very personal fight between me and Vince. I had offered many times to write SmackDown again and give someone else the ECW brand so maybe you'll feel less compelled to change the show on someone else other than me. It was the old cowboy thing, 'This town ain't big enough for the both of us', and Vince ain't going to be the one leaving."
Heyman said it all came to head on the plane and by the time they got off the flight, Vince "really, really, really wanted me to go home and I was really, really happy to oblige, and it took five and a half years for that to become a real learning lesson for the both of us."
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