Paul Heyman Responds to Criticism of Brock Lesnar’s Return: ‘He’s Here, Get Over It’

Paul Heyman has spoken about Brock Lensar’s controversial return to WWE.

Lesnar’s return came after the wrestler was named in a sex trafficking lawsuit concerning former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and former employee Janel Grant. Lesnar’s involvement in the suit left some fans with a bad taste in their mouths following his surprise entrance to confront John Cena at Summerslam last weekend.

Having worked with Lesnar for decades, specifically as his advocate since the very start of Lesnar’s WWE career, Heyman spoke about his former client’s return while guesting on The Ariel Helwani Show.

“Everything in life is met with criticism, I don’t pay attention to that," Heyman said. I don’t pay attention to it. He’s here — that’s a reality of the fact. He’s here. If you were in MetLife Stadium on Sunday, you would understand that return meant a lot to that audience. That audience was jacked to see Brock Lesnar come out and to see him F5 John Cena. Nobody left MetLife going, ‘Oh god, they brought back Brock.’ People were just going nuts. That’s our paying audience, they’re happy to see him. I’m happy to be part of a team that presents him.”

“Everybody has criticism in life. There are people that criticize Jesus. There are people that criticize Moses. There are people that criticize Muhammad. There are people that criticize God or gods. There is no President that has ever existed with a 100-percent approval rating. There is no President that has ever existed that someone hasn’t pointed to and said, ‘That president sucked.’ There are people who, to this day, who think that Abraham Lincoln sucked. They’re wrong, but they think it. There are people to this day who think that FDR sucked. They’re wrong, but they think it. Bill Clinton doesn’t have a 100-percent approval rating. Donald Trump doesn’t have a 100-percent approval rating. Nobody does.”

“There’s always going to be critics of anything that we do and very few people ever make it to the top in life without either making mistakes or having skeletons in their closet. Obviously, the decision was made — it’s time to bring back Brock Lesnar. Whatever that decision is based on, I respect it. If there are critics of it, get over it, he’s here. And he’s gonna be here and you ain’t gonna be able to cancel him and I’m happy to have him back because the audience is happy to have him back. If we brought him back and the audience rebelled against it, I wouldn’t be happy to have him back. ‘Oh man, this doesn’t work.’ But it worked.”

Watch Paul Heyman’s full interview with Ariel Helwani below.