Real name: Paul Wight
Height: 7'0"
Weight: 441 lbs.
Date of birth: February 8, 1972
Hometown: Tampa, FL
Pro debut: July 16, 1995
Trained by: Larry Sharpe
Finishing move: Chokeslam
Photo credit: World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
Biography
- Wight arrived in World Championship Wrestling as The Giant and quickly joined Jimmy Hart's Dungeon of Doom.
- On October 29, 1995, it appeared The Giant won the WCW title from Hulk Hogan via disqualification.
Hart had a stipulation added to the match that the title could change hands on a disqualification,
however, since Hart caused the disqualification himself, the title was held up.
- At WCW's Clash of the Champions XXXII, The Giant and Ric Flair defeated Hogan and "The Macho Man" Randy Savage.
- The Giant defeated Lock Ness at the 1996 Uncensored.
- On April 22, 1996, The Giant captured the WCW title from Flair in Albany, GA.
- At the World Wrestling Peace Festival '96, The Giant defeated Sting.
- On the August 26, 1996 edition of "Nitro," The Giant joined the New World Order.
- The Giant won the 1996 World War III 3 ring, 60-man battle royal. Earlier that evening, The Giant defeated Jeff Jarrett.
- The Giant defeated Lex Luger at the 1996 Starrcade in Nashville, TN.
- The Giant and Luger defeated "Hollywood" Hogan and Dennis Rodman at the 1997 "Bash at the
Beach."
- When Kevin Nash formed the nWo Wolfpac, Wight joined Hogan's nWo Hollywood faction.
- Sting and The Giant teamed up to beat the Outsiders on May 17, 1998 at "Slamboree," for the WCW
World Tag Team title.
- Sting ended up with the Wolfpac, which meant The Giant and his new tag team partner were on enemy
factions.
- Scott Hall and The Giant defeated Nash and Sting on the July 20, 1998 edition of "Nitro," capturing
the WCW Tag Team title.
- Wight left WCW in 1999, and signed a reported ten-year contract with the World Wrestling Federation.
- Wight made his WWF debut at the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" during a steel cage match involving
Steve Austin and Vince McMahon. Wight emerged through the ring, and tossed Austin into the fencing,
landing the "rattlesnake" on the arena floor for the victory.
- Upon his arrival in the WWF, Wight became a member of Mr. McMahon's Corporation, and was renamed The Big Show.
- The Union (Wight, Foley, Shamrock, and Test) defeated Faarooq, Bradshaw, Viscera and the Big
Bossman at the 1999 "Over the Edge."
- At the 1999 Fully Loaded PPV, The Big Show defeated Kane.
- The Undertaker and The Big Show defeated Kane and X-Pac at the '99 Summerslam for the WWF
World Tag Team title in Minneapolis, MN.
- On September 7, 1999, The Undertaker and The Big Show again claimed the WWF Tag Team title, this time from Mankind and The Rock in a "buried alive" match.
- The Big Show overcame Triple H and The Rock in a three-way match at the 1999 Survivor Series to capture the WWF title.
- At Armageddon '99, The Big Show successfully defended the WWF title against the Big Bossman.
- With the assistance of Shane McMahon, The Big Show defeated The Rock for a WWF title shot at Wrestlemania 2000.
- At Backlash 2000 in Washington, D.C., Wight, dressed as Hulk Hogan, and defeated Kurt Angle.
- In the summer of 2000, the WWF assigned Wight to Ohio Valley Wrestling for conditioning.
- The Big Show returned to the WWF at the 2001 Royal Rumble, entering the battle royal at #23.
- At No Way Out '01 in Las Vegas, The Big Show captured the WWF Hardcore title from Raven.
- On the May 21, 2001 edition of "Raw" in San Jose, CA, The Big Show defeated Rhyno for the WWF Hardcore title.
- On July 26, 2001, The Big Show and Shane The Glamour Boy defeated Russ McCullough and Test for the IWA Puerto Rico promotion.
- At the Rebellion '01 PPV in Manchester, England, The Big Show downed Diamond Dallas Page.
- On March 3, 2002, The Big Show and Kane defeated the Dudley Boyz in Singapore.
- On the April 22, 2002 episode of "Raw," The Big Show turned against Austin and rejoined the New World Order.
- It was announced on the October 21, 2002 edition of "Raw" that The Big Show had been traded by general manager Eric Bischoff to "Smackdown."
- At Survivor Series '02, The Big Show used outside interference from Paul Heyman (who turned on Brock Lesnar) to capture the WWE title from
Lesnar in New York, NY.
- At No Mercy '03 in Baltimore, MD, The Big Show defeated Eddy Guererro to capture the United States title.
- A bald headed Big Show defeated Kurt Angle at the 2004 No Mercy PPV.
- At Survivor Series '04, Team Guerrero (Big Show, Van Dam, Eddy Guerero, and John Cena) defeated Team Angle (Kurt Angle, Mark Jindrak, Luther Reigns, and Carlito Caribbean Cool).
- At Armageddon '04, The Big Show defeated Angle, Reigns and Jindrak in a "3 on 1" handicap match.
- On the June 27, 2005 edition of "Raw," The Big Show was drafted to the Raw roster.
- At Unforgiven '05, The Big Show defeated Gene Snitsky.
- The Big Show and Kane defeated Trevor Murdoch and Lance Cade at the 2005 Taboo Tuesday PPV in San Diego, CA to capture the World Tag Team straps.
- At Armegeddon '05, The Big Show and Kane defeated Batista and Rey Mysterio.
- At Wrestlemania 22, The Big Show and Kane defeated Chris Masters and Carlito to successfully defend the World Tag Team title.
- The Big Show turned against Team WWE and joined ECW during the 20-man WWE vs. ECW battle royal on June 7, 2006.
- On the July 4, 2006 edition of "ECW" on Sci Fi, The Big Show defeated Rob Van Dam in Philadelphia, PA to capture the ECW title.
- At Summerslam '06, The Big Show defeated Sabu in an "extreme rules" match to retain the ECW title.
- Wight returned to WWE at the No Way Out '08 PPV, and did an angle with boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. to set up a Wrestlemania XXIV match.
- At Backlash '08, The Big Show defeated The Great Khali.
