Kayla Braxton discusses her working relationship with Paul Heyman.
Braxton works as a backstage interviewer with WWE, primarily on the SmackDown brand. Over the years, she has interviewed a litany of talent in the promotion. However, no talent has the relationship Kayla has with The Bloodline's Wise Man, Paul Heyman.
Over the years, the pair have had interesting interviews in the past while also working together on Talking Smack. The pair also have a history of being snippy with each other, as Heyman has often personally insulted Braxton in said interviews.
While speaking on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Kayla addressed her segments with Heyman, noting that with both parties being spitfires, that helped build their chemistry for when they work together.
"I mean, I give a lot of credit to Paul. I had so much fun doing all that back and forth with him with The Bloodline. But, you know, Paul and I were doing Talking Smack together and we didn't really know each other at the time. I knew that we didn't really interact a lot, and getting to know him on that panel and getting to go back and forth and realising we're both kind of spitfires helped immensely. And then you know, he got me on camera to do those bits with him on SmackDown with The Bloodline and then now I am the sassy backstage interviewer. I've been told I can be a little sassy. I think he wanted to help me, he does that with a lot of talent and other interviewers, he wants to see what our strengths are and makes it happen. I don’t even remember how the first one happened. A lot of times like Paul and I, we just go, there’s not really talking about it beforehand. We just said, whatever happens, happens. I think that his freakout happened on one and it just hit big. So we just kind of kept doing it. It got a good reaction, fans loved it.”
With Roman Reigns not being on SmackDown as much over the past two years, Heyman and Braxton have not interacted as much as of late.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Kayla would discuss The Rock's recent WWE SmackDown return. You can read more about that here.
Fans can see the full current lineup for the December 22 episode of WWE SmackDown here.
Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s).
