Paul Donald Wight II was born on February 8,1972 and is an American professional wrestler and actor.
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56 Facts About Paul Wight
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Paul Wight is signed to All Elite Wrestling as an in-ring performer, and as a commentator for its web television show, AEW Dark: Elevation, under his real name of Paul Wight.
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Paul Wight won the 60-man battle royal at World War 3 and the 30-man Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31.
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Outside of professional wrestling, Paul Wight has appeared in feature films and television series such as Jingle All the Way, The Waterboy, Star Trek: Enterprise, and two USA Network's comedy-dramas Royal Pains, Psych and the action-drama Burn Notice.
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Paul Wight had lead roles in the WWE Studios comedy film Knucklehead and the Netflix sitcom The Big Show Show.
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Paul Wight was born with acromegaly, a disease of the endocrine system that causes accelerated growth.
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Paul Wight underwent successful surgery in the early 1990s on his pituitary gland, which halted the growth.
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Paul Wight played basketball and American football in high school at Wyman King Academy in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina.
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Paul Wight was a standout center for the basketball team and a tight end for the football team.
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Paul Wight quit football after his freshman year because of disputes with the coach.
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Paul Wight continued to support the team by joining the cheerleading squad as a sophomore, partly from spite.
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Paul Wight attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 1992 to 1993, was a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Cougars basketball team, and is a member of the Xi Beta chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.
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Hogan liked how Paul Wight worked the crowd and recommended him to World Championship Wrestling's vice president, Eric Bischoff.
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Paul Wight had previously wrestled one match: on December 3,1994, at a World Wrestling Association show in Clementon, New Jersey, he lost by countout to WWA Heavyweight Champion Frank Finnegan.
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Paul Wight had earlier attempted to inquire about joining the WWF, at the Horizon, during an autograph session.
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Paul Wight paid Larry Sharpe's Monster Factory $5,000, but due to Sharpe's gout at the time, he was only very minimally trained.
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Paul Wight debuted in May 1995 at Slamboree, where he was billed as the son of Andre the Giant and accordingly used the ring name "The Giant" as a member of Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom stable.
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Paul Wight made his professional in-ring debut at Halloween Havoc against Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
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Paul Wight won the match after Hogan's manager, Jimmy Hart, purposely got Hogan disqualified and then turned on him.
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Paul Wight was one of the final six combatants, being eliminated simultaneously with Sting and Lex Luger by Hogan.
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Paul Wight fought against the nWo along with Sting and Luger, winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship twice.
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Paul Wight's feud was poorly received, winning the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's "Worst Feud Award" and he won the match after Big Boss Man was counted out.
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Paul Wight then began competing for the WWF Hardcore Championship and at No Way Out, Big Show defeated Raven to win the championship.
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Paul Wight faced Shane McMahon, the on-screen owner of WCW, in a Last Man Standing match at Backlash and was defeated following interference from Test.
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Paul Wight then began feuding with The Undertaker, after Big Show threw him off the stage, injuring his neck, leading to Big Show and his partner A-Train losing to The Undertaker at WrestleMania XIX.
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Paul Wight renewed his feud with Lesnar, wrestling him four times for the WWE Championship, but was unsuccessful in his attempt to regain the title.
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Paul Wight lost to Guerrero after Guerrero performed a Frog Splash, and, believing that Torrie Wilson had laughed at him for losing, upended her car and threatened to throw her off a ledge.
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Paul Wight successfully pinned Gene Snitsky in a tag team match, which turned into a singles match when both men's partners brawled backstage.
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Paul Wight had a brief feud with Sabu, whom he defeated at SummerSlam to retain the ECW World Championship.
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Paul Wight became further involved in the McMahons' feud with D-X when he teamed with Vince and Shane against Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a 3-on-2 handicap Hell in a Cell match at Unforgiven, which was won by D-X.
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Paul Wight stated that "Big Show" was his slave name and that he did not want to be owned anymore.
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Paul Wight then feuded with Kingston over the United States Championship and earned himself a spot in the six-pack challenge at Night of Champions.
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Paul Wight crashed Swagger's achievement celebration and cost him his match with Kofi Kingston in the next week.
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Paul Wight was on Rey Mysterio's team for Survivor Series where he was a survivor along with Mysterio.
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Paul Wight returned during a match between Kane and Del Rio, attacking both Del Rio and Rodriguez.
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Paul Wight then attacked Big Show with the cage door, breaking the cage viciously.
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Paul Wight continued the attack on Cena until The Rock made the save.
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Paul Wight then faced Orton for the WWE Championship at Survivor Series but failed to win.
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Paul Wight subsequently started a feud with Brock Lesnar, which was settled at the Royal Rumble, where he was defeated.
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Paul Wight was defeated by Brock Lesnar in the main event of Live from Madison Square Garden.
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Paul Wight made his final WWE appearance on the January 4,2021 edition of Raw for Legends Night.
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Paul Wight cited "creative frustrations" and lack of ideas as reasons for his exit.
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On February 24,2021, All Elite Wrestling announced that Big Show, now known in AEW by his real name, Paul Wight, had signed with the company and would be providing commentary alongside Tony Schiavone for their new YouTube series AEW Dark: Elevation, which premiered on March 15.
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Paul Wight has often been compared to Andre the Giant throughout his career due to both suffering from acromegaly and having a similar overall body structure to Andre.
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Unlike Andre, who was content with his fate, Paul Wight had surgery of the pituitary gland to halt his condition.
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Paul Wight is well known for his frequent turns between face and heel throughout his career, to the point it has become a running gag among wrestling fans.
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One wrestling site has estimated that through 2018 Paul Wight has made approximately 34 turns since his WCW debut in 1995, four of those alone coming during his first year with the WWF.
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Paul Wight is the only contestant to appear on two versions of the game show in two different countries.
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Many years, Paul Wight has been an active supporter of Special Olympics, including the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games in New Jersey, where he participated in the Opening Ceremony.
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Paul Wight was later named WWE Goodwill Ambassador for the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles.
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Paul Wight claimed that Sawyer had verbally abused, threatened, and shoved him, and that he had responded by punching Sawyer.
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