Cesaro aligned himself with Paul Heyman on the Raw after WrestleMania 30. Cesaro had just won the first ever Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Heyman was also managing Brock Lesnar at the time.
On Insight with Chris Van Vilet, Paul Heyman called the way WWE handled Cesaro ‘a major fumble’
“You look at Cesaro and he checked, especially in that moment in time, he checked every box to become a top star. Everyone who got in the ring with him came back to Gorilla and said ‘give me him.’ I remember John Cena worked with him on television and came back and looked at Vince [McMahon] and said, I could main event WrestleMania with him. And probably should have. Cesaro was placed in that position the day after Brock Lesnar conquered the streak so that when Brock took his hiatus, I had an excuse to be on TV to say, ‘My client Brock Lesnar defeated conquered The Undertaker‘s undefeated streak at WrestleMania.’ And you need an excuse to have me out there on TV. If you put me on commentary, I can’t say it for 2 or 3 hours. I have to say it with him once a week. Just drill that into your head. Reinforcement, repetition, repetition… And so Cesaro became the excuse to say that line – if Cesaro was given the opportunity to answer ever question in a different language, you’d have seen a side of his personality because he will put emphasis in the dialect and you will see his mannerisms match the dialect that he’s presenting. So I think Cesaro could have been a fascinating promo if he was given the chance to do that in WWE. He wasn’t. And that’s our [WWE] fault. That is a major fumble that was a crime that was committed against the career of Cesaro and a crime that was committed against the audience for not allowing a gifted performer to do what at the time, certainly he could do better than most anybody else on the face of the planet. When you realize what he’s capable of, what an opponent he could have been for Brock Lesnar. Had I turned on Cesaro and we built him to be a threat to Brock, the matches the two of them could have had are mind boggling. A tremendously wasted opportunity and no one for us to blame but ourselves, including me.”
Cesaro ended up leaving WWE on February 24th 2022 and joined AEW. He is currently in a faction called the Death Riders with Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, PAC, Daniel Garcia, & Marina Shafir.
You can watch the entire Paul Heyman interview on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet below.