Kayla Braxton Reflects On Working With Paul Heyman In WWE

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Former WWE broadcaster Kayla Braxton spoke with Denise Salcedo of Instinct Culture on a number of topics, including working with Paul Heyman in WWE.

Braxton said, โ€œOne of the most, if not the most, brilliant mind in wrestling. Paulโ€™s been around for forever, for many different leaderships and eras of wrestling. [Our relationship] really happened very organically back during the ThunderDome era, during the pandemic, when they put us together on Talking Smack. So when we had the panel show, I didnโ€™t really know Paul. I hadnโ€™t worked with Paul that much at the time. I just knew that this really big, loud man was on my kickoff show all of a sudden taking up all my airtime, and I was getting really frustrated with him, but then the more I got to work with him โ€” I would not have become the broadcaster I had become if it werenโ€™t for Paul Heyman.โ€

On developing an on-screen dynamic with Heyman:

โ€œFrom there, weโ€™d create little mini storylines on the panel, which a lot of times, Talking Smack, things that would happen on there, even that Renee Paquette, then Renee Young, Daniel Bryan, things would end up on TV and storylines. So thatโ€™s kind of what inched our way into this whole Bloodline feud that I had. There were a lot of times weโ€™d be going live, Iโ€™d be handed a script of what to say in my interview, and Paulโ€™s like, โ€˜You donโ€™t need that.โ€™ Iโ€™m like, โ€˜Yo, weโ€™re going live,โ€™ and I donโ€™t know if I can just tell them in the truck, โ€˜Hey, Iโ€™m not saying that, but we would just go off the cuff,โ€™ and anything Paul touched turned to gold. So, yeah, it was really fun. Thatโ€™s also something thatโ€™s really special, and that not a lot of people can say, is that they got to work that closely with the โ€˜Wise Man.’โ€

You can check out Braxton’s comments in the video below.

(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)