8 NASTIEST Trash Talkers In Wrestling History

Paul Heyman is not only one of the best promos in wrestling, but he's one of the finest public speakers in any medium. His genius when it comes to delivering inside a wrestling ring manifests when he expertly blurs the lines between fiction and reality. 

It is so visible that he lives the business and has given his life to it (and he has such a storied history within it) that he can speak to fans in a way that few others can. This comes from moments like when broadcaster TNN sent ECW to their doom by replacing them with WWE, with Heyman swinging for the fence and telling his TV executive uber-lords that he "hated their stinking guts" and daring them to kick him off the air as he fought for his company's life.

He is also a master of detonating incredibly personal barbs.

His promo at ECW's One Night Stand, in which he called out Edge for being a home-wrecker for his affair with Lita and went for the jugular at JBL by telling him he's only SmackDown's top champion "because Triple H doesn't want to work Tuesdays", is the stuff of legend. However, it's 2001's tirade against Vince McMahon ahead of the Invasion PPV that is his masterpiece.

Accusing McMahon of flaunting his affairs for his children to read in Playboy, stealing Bret Hart's dream to buy himself an airplane and melting the hearts of fans everywhere as he told McMahon how the billionaire stole his ideas and his legacy, it was simply one of the greatest, most direct promos in the history of the sport.