Paul Heyman Talks Undertaker-Brock Lesnar at “SummerSlam,” Rumored Austin-Lesnar Match at WrestleMania 32

In an effort to help promote WWE “SummerSlam” on Aug. 23 at the Barclays Center, the advocate for “The Beast Incarnate” Paul Heyman sat down with WTOP in Washington to answer a few questions.

Heyman discussed the huge Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker match which will main event the pay-per-view, as well as the once rumored Lesnar vs. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin bout for WrestleMania 32:

Q: You guys are going to be headlining SummerSlam here: Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker. This is a huge rematch after Brock breaking The Streak. What’s Brock doing to get ready for this?

A: “The same thing he did to get ready for Wrestlemania 30. He’s training, he’s hunting, he’s eating right, he’s getting ready to just walk in the ring and destroy The Undertaker.”

Q: You know The Undertaker, that was a legendary streak he dropped to Brock. He’s not going to want to lose again here. Is Brock going to really have to up his game?

A: “I think The Undertaker is the one who needs to up his game. I don’t understand why anybody doesn’t understand the correlation here. I don’t think The Undertaker wanted to lose at Wrestlemania 30 either, but he had no choice in the matter. He got his ass kicked by Brock Lesnar, he got beaten by Brock Lesnar, he got beat up by Brock Lesnar, he got victimized by Brock Lesnar, and he got conquered by Brock Lesnar. And the very same thing is going to happen next Sunday at SummerSlam.”

Q: Now I know you are very partial to Brock in this match, but could you say a little bit about Taker’s run, why he was so big to WWE, even though you say his time is up and it’s Brock’s turn?

A: “I didn’t say Undertaker’s time is up. That’s putting words in my mouth. I think if The Undertaker picked a fight with anybody right now, The Undertaker would easily win. I don’t see anybody being able to stand up to The Undertaker. There’s not a man alive right now that can step into the ring with The Undertaker who’s this driven, this focused and now has something to make up for since he lost at Wrestlemania 30. The problem is, The Undertaker isn’t fighting a man, he’s fighting a beast. He’s fighting a conqueror. He’s fighting a once-in-a-lifetime athlete named Brock Lesnar. So it’s no slight to The Undertaker that he’s going to get his ass kicked by Brock Lesnar. Any human being who steps in the ring with Brock Lesnar is going to get his ass kicked. It’s not even a fair fight!”

Q: I gotta ask you, on Steve Austin’s podcast, you had some fightin’ words for him with a possible Wrestlemania match. I know there’s nothing set or anything like that, but is that something that you guys would still be interested in?

A: “I would always be interested in anything involving Stone Cold Steve Austin. I think he’s made it very clear that he’s never going to wrestle again, so that’s off the table. But anything involving Steve Austin to me is always very interesting.”

Q: So how did that explode a little on his podcast there? How did that come up?

A: “We were given extra time after the hour we were allotted, no one was giving us a cue to wrap up, he was finished with his questions, I had a few of my own, and one of them was: ‘What would it take to fight Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania,’ which as Brock’s advocate, I felt was a very logical question. I did not expect to get that answer from Steve, nor did he expect to get that question from me.”

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