It was during his time in WCW (when he was called The Giant) that he did something in his match against Hulk Hogan that shocked everyone.
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The Big Show, also known as Paul Wight, is a freak of nature. Standing at 7 feet tall, he towers over almost anyone in the wrestling industry. The giant not only wrestled for WWE but also wrestled for WCW. It was during his time in WCW (when he was called The Giant) that he did something that shocked everyone and is known as one of the most infamous moments of his career. It was during his WCW World Heavyweight Championship match against Hulk Hogan at Halloween Havoc 1995. He fell off of Cobo Hall before the match during his monster truck battle with Hulk Hogan.
Wight said, “I definitely wouldn’t even consider doing that now at my age, at my wisdom. Like, ‘no, why are we doing that? But at 22, 23 years old, I’m like, ‘yeah! Whatever you want to do. Do you want to push me off the building? Awesome!’ Because you’re just so excited. That night, I remember it was in Detroit and it was so cold. It was Halloween Havoc and it was October of 1995. It was so cold, we were on the roof. We did the monster truck battle because that was a thing we did. I ran over Hogan’s motorcycle with my monster truck, and then he went and got a monster truck.
He continued, “And then we had a monster truck duel that I lost. Then we got out, fought around, and then the thing was to fall off the building. It was about four stories into a big airbag. I’m not a stuntman, I’ve never done anything like that. But we had our stunt coordinator going, ‘Oh, it’s a big airbag, it’s fine, don’t worry about it.’ So you’re young, you think you’re bulletproof, you’re just, ‘okay, sure.’ You go off it. Then we went and had the match.”
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Paul Wight is now a semi-retired wrestler who does commentary on AEW. Regarding the earlier mentioned incident, he had an explanation as to how he showed up for his main event match with Hogan unharmed. He said, “I remember asking Kevin Sullivan, who was in charge of the creative? Back then, we called him a booker. I said, ‘Hey Kevin, should I be bruised up or anything from falling?’ Cause I don’t know, I’m so green. He goes, ‘Brother, you’re The Giant! You’re fine!’ And he walked off. So that was the old Halloween Havoc.
Speaking of the video, he said, “It doesn’t do it justice. My reaction, I’ve said this before as a joke, but just being young and funny, when I went over and Hulk’s looking over the top at me, I was flipping the bird at him on the way down. I threw up a little bird on the way down. It’s a wonder he didn’t bust out laughing when I did it because I kind of saw his face. That was a fun day of wrestling when we were doing that crazy, off-the-mark kind of stuff.”
