He chooses to not be involved at all, so how is he ever going to make a difference.
Grimm has said many times that during his run as the main creative force behind Smackdown, the shows viewing figures were up, so being hamstrung by WWE control wasnt an issue.
And as for TNA, you only have to see how much control has been ceded to Hogan and Bisch to see that it wouldnt be impossible for Heyman to be given full control, or at least be able to gain a strong hold on the creative side.
Fact is, he isnt interested anymore, and would only go back if he got everything he wanted, and thats not good for the business either, because nobody knows if Heyman 2010 would work.
Well, in all fairness, we won't know if his ideas would work until he gets the talent to work with, and the financial backing from someone on the same page as him (which he never had with ECW)
Vince had the money and territorial control that his father built, and Bischoff had Ted Turner's money, cable stations, and WCW's territorial control to back their ideas with.
Heyman never had any of that (which was one of the reasons why he dumped the NWA East title because he knew he didn't have the money or Northeastern territorial control that Vince had to complete with him... so instead of trying to compete he built a niche that could exist within WWF's territorial control of the northeast)
If he had the financial backing, exposure (hell, if it wasn't for one of my cousins in Brooklyn sending me tapes of ECW, I wouldn't have heard of ECW until Lawler invaded ECW and wouldn't have seen any of it until they started showing the PPV's here in Canada in the very late 90's) and money to keep the stars he made, ECW might still be around.
So I don't blame Heyman one bit for sitting this one out until the absolute right situation comes along.
