As we learned this morning, Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff are taking over creative duties on Raw and Smackdown respectively. Not as onscreen General Managers or anything like that, but as actual Executive Directors who answer only to Vince McMahon. Naturally, this surprise announcement took the wrestling internet by storm, and everybody has their take, including a lot of past and present WWE talent. Here are some of the tweets reacting to the story. If there’s any good ones we missed, share them in the comments.
Unsurprising given his recent attitude toward WWE, Seth Rollins is into it.
The Bisch is back!! #teamwwe
— Seth Rollins (@WWERollins) June 27, 2019
As always, Rusev makes it funny, and maybe just a little sarcastic:
Wild card rules we get Hulk Hogan on Monday and Hollywood Hogan on Tuesday …… i love it!
— Miro (@ToBeMiro) June 27, 2019
Matt Hardy may not be paying attention.
Anything creative going on today, Wrestling Twitter?
— MATT HARDY (@MATTHARDYBRAND) June 27, 2019
EC3 is running game (and honestly, let’s hope it works out for him).
Check your DMs @HeymanHustle https://t.co/ZB7z2jPoko
— ecIII (@therealec3) June 27, 2019
Tyler Breeze seemed a bit critical (if not at all incorrect)…
I wish people would look toward the future instead of the past
— Breeze (@MmmGorgeous) June 27, 2019
But the he claimed that’s not what he was talking about at all.
Didn’t even know about it until this uproar haha https://t.co/PRorKAeTpr
— Breeze (@MmmGorgeous) June 27, 2019
Killian Dane played off Lance Storm’s surprise.
Nasty Boys to Smackdown?
— Big Damo (@DamoMackle) June 27, 2019
No Way Jose’s mind is blown.
🤯This’ll be interesting🤔 https://t.co/coxsDOndZw
— Levis (@LevyValenz) June 27, 2019
And as for the still-MIA Sasha Banks, she might be referencing something else, but this is certainly a reaction.
— Mercedes MonĂ© Varnado (@MercedesVarnado) June 27, 2019
It must be even weirder for the workers to learn that these two are taking over TV than it is for the rest of us. After all, a lot of the current WWE Superstars watched wrestling shows as children that were run by Heyman and Bischoff.