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Longtime WWE promoter Paul Heyman made a chaotic appearance on The Pat Mcafee Show on Monday in which he brought up the recent lawsuit filed against Shannon Sharpe. Heyman was on McAfee’s show following the conclusion of WrestleMania over the weekend.
They 59-year-old Paul Heyman, who has been with the WWE since 2001 and was inducted to the WWE Hall of Fame in 2024, appeared on The Pat McAfee Show on Monday, April 21 following WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas, Nevada over the weekend.
Just hour prior to Heyman’s apperance on the show, news broke of a lawsuit being filed against Sharpe by Texas attorney Tony Buzbee, who represented many of Deshaun Watosn’s accusers, alleging the sexual assault of a Jane Doe in her 20s (Sharpe’s lawyers have since released a statement identifying her as Gabriella Zuniga).
“CM Punk does as much good to my reputation as Shannon Sharpe does to ESPN’s,” Heyman said.
“Do you care about the opinions of people who are irrelevant? You don’t care about the opinions of most people who are very relevant in your life. You don’t care about the opinions of people who pay you. They sit there and they go, ‘Hey Mr. McAfee, don’t talk about Shannon Sharpe on the air today!’ And you go, ‘Pfft, I talk about anything I want. I’m Pat McAfee, watch me swing my schlong all over the place.”
Every ESPN executive just had a heart attack. pic.twitter.com/WSrybUEhRO
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) April 21, 2025
In addition to his comments about Shannon Sharpe, Paul Heyman also clearly made McAfee uncomfortable by telling the audience the pair were smoking weed together the night before, and told an audience member that they were going to “get deported.”
“By the way, it’s ‘puff puff pass’, not ‘puff puff puff puff puff puff pass,'” Heyman explains to a squirming McAfee.
“Who’s the smart ass, you, the one that’s gonna get deported. Hey amigo, I may suck but it’s your mother that taught me how,” Heyman said to a fan in the crowd.
Paul Heyman goes off on a fan:
“Who’s the smart ass, you, the one that’s gonna get deported. Hey amigo, I may suck but it’s your mother that taught me how.”
(via @PatMcAfeeShow) pic.twitter.com/oMXCsOE7t7
— Wrestle Ops (@WrestleOps) April 21, 2025
They just had another heart attack. pic.twitter.com/qYt0zEG8Qc
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) April 21, 2025
It’s certainly been a controversial few weeks for The Pat McAfee Show, which also finds itself at the center of potential lawsuits set to be filed by Ole Miss freshman Mary Kate Cornett, who accused the show of contributing to ‘ruining her life’ by reporting on rumors about her in late February.
As for Heyman, he was a central figure in WrestleMania 41 as he betrayed Roman Reigns and CM Punk to help Seth Rollins win the triple threat match the pair put on in the main event.