Paul Heyman accuses WWE Hall of Fame inductee Bill Watts of making anti-Semitic statements when he was running WCW


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Paul Heyman accuses WWE Hall of Fame inductee Bill Watts of making anti-Semitic statements when he was running WCW
Apr 2, 2009 - 10:24 AM


Paul Heyman's visit to the United Nations for the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust was chronicled in a Slam Wrestling piece written by former WWE creative team member Ranjan Chibber. In the article, Heyman accuses WWE Hall of Fame inductee Bill Watts of making anti-Semitic statements when Heyman worked for Watts in WCW.

"I'd never met Watts before," Heyman recalled. "The first time I met him was when he became the head of WCW. We weren't two minutes into our conversation when he asked me where my beanie was [referring in an offensive way to a yarmulke]. He then started comparing me to a manager back in the day called Izzy Slapowitz." Heyman half-laughed, "I could see we were really going to get along just great!"

After a televised wrestling show, the ratings came in, and Watts was livid," Heyman continued. "This was during the storyline with Maduca Miceli. "Our segment was the highest rated segment of that program ... and Watts says -- in front of a room full of people -- how pissed off it makes him that a Jew and a cunt drew the highest rating of the show. He felt it was the downfall of the wrestling business." To read the full story, visit Slam Wrestling.

Powell's POV: Although Heyman said it's "shameful that such a known racist should be rewarded at all," he acknowledges that Watts left his mark in the wrestling industry and feels that's what the Hall of Fame is acknowledging. Heyman also took a shot at WWE Smackdown lead writer Michael Hayes regarding the Mark Henry incident from last year. The story also features quotes from recent WWE release Colt Cabana. More on that shortly.

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