9 Biggest Liars In WWE History

1. Paul Heyman

Paul Heyman is a liar. Paul Heyman is a liar's liar. Paul Heyman's enemies call him a liar. Paul Heyman's friends call him a liar. Paul Heyman calls himself a liar (you might not want to take his word for it, though). It's even been mentioned on WWE TV, most notably when Heyman was accused of hiring The Shield to help CM Punk, but swore he hadn't. In the end, of course, he had. Art was imitating life, in this instance. Paul Heyman's golden age as a liar came when he was the owner of the original ECW. Much has been made of just how deeply in debt the company was when it folded (and throughout its later years), but some of its biggest debts were to its wrestlers. Heyman had a reputation for bouncing checks (or simply not sending them), and he found that the best way to deal with large, angry wrestlers who demanded money was to simply lie to them -- the old "the check's in the mail" excuse. Heyman was so good at lying that many a wrestler who came into a meeting with the "Impresario of Hardcore" vowing to never work for him again would leave thinking he wasn't such a bad guy after all. Still, the debts racked up. Many of the men who passed through ECW ended up stiffed on a paycheck or two, but some of the longtime stars -- men like Rob Van Dam, Shane Douglas, and Tommy Dreamer -- were short huge sums of money. RVD, who stayed with ECW until the bitter end, was allegedly owed in the six figures. With no TV, rising debts, and eventually, no shows scheduled, it looked like ECW was going out of business. Still, Heyman assured his employees that all would be well. In March of 2001, without warning to the ECW faithful, he showed up on Monday Night Raw to join the commentary team.
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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013