News broke last week that Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff were named ‘Executive Directors’ of RAW and Smackdown. Heyman is now in charge of RAW and Bischoff is now in charge of Smackdown.
In his daily update for F4WOnline, Dave Meltzer provided some backstage notes about Heyman and Bischoff’s new roles in WWE.
Here is what he wrote:
Some notes regarding the new roles of Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff in WWE. There is more Heyman influence in tonight’s Raw, but he’s had influence for some time. It is not his complete show. Bischoff is starting very soon (likely his fingerprints will be on things starting after the PPV) and will be at the show on Tuesday since the ad went out and they feel they need to have him there, but this week’s Smackdown is not his show. Heyman will continue as a TV character in the role of the advocate for Brock Lesnar and not in an authority position, feeling the authority position is played out. Bischoff’s situation is not confirmed past he was not hired to be a television performer. We’ll have a lot more on the whys this happened in the new issue but the basic stuff talked about in the current issue is accurate as what caused the move and why these were the two guys picked. Both will have influence in long-term booking with their ideas, but it is still Vince McMahon’s show.
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