The Big Show Bio

The Big Show Bio

Name                       :                    Paul Donald Wight

Ring Name              :                   The Big Show

Birth Date               :                   8 February 1972

Birth Place              :                   South Carolina, USA

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Paul Donald Wight II (conceived February 8, 1972) is a Semi-Retired American expert wrestler and on-screen character, better known by his ring name Big Show. He is marked to WWE, where he has performed since 1999. He at present wrestles on the Raw brand. He started his vocation in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he was known by the ring name The Giant.

Wight has been a world heavyweight champion seven times and is the main individual to have held the ECW, WWE, World Heavyweight, and WCW championships. Wight has likewise discovered accomplishment in the label group division, having been a 11-time world label group champion, holding the WWF/World, WWE and WCW World Tag Team Championships numerous times with different accomplices. Having additionally been Intercontinental, United States and Hardcore Champion, Big Show is the 24th Triple Crown and thirteenth Grand Slam victor in WWE history. Between WWE and WCW, Wight has held 23 all out titles. He has additionally won WCW's 1996 World War 3 60-man fight regal and the 30-man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31. Wight has featured numerous compensation per-view appears for WCW and the WWF/E since 1995, including the 2000 version of WWE's head yearly occasion, WrestleMania.

Outside of expert wrestling, Wight has showed up in highlight movies and TV arrangement, for example, The Waterboy, Star Trek: Enterprise, and two USA Network's satire dramatizations Royal Pains and Psych and the activity show Burn Notice. In 2010, he had his first lead part in the comic drama film Knucklehead, which was delivered by WWE Studios.

Full Bio

Early profession

Wight was conceived in Aiken, South Carolina. After school, Wight worked different occupations including skipping, abundance chasing, and noting telephone calls. Through doing the last for a karaoke organization, he met Danny Bonaduce in a live amplifier beginner challenge on his morning radio appear. Bonaduce acquainted Wight with his companion Hulk Hogan. They had a casual b-ball game, as a component of a World Championship Wrestling advancement for a forthcoming show at the Rosemont Horizon. Hogan preferred how Wight functioned the group, and prescribed him to World Championship Wrestling Vice President Eric Bischoff. Wight went to the Horizon appear, and was welcomed into the locker room, where he met Ric Flair, Arn Anderson (his childhood legend), and a stripped Paul Orndorff. He later met Bischoff there and went to a deal.

Wight had before endeavored to ask about joining the WWF, additionally at the Horizon, amid a signature session. Promoter and scout Bob Collins dismissed him after he conceded he had no experience. He paid Larry Sharpe's Monster Factory $5000, however because of Sharpe's gout at the time, he was just insignificantly prepared (Johnny Polo showed him the neckline and-elbow lockup). While there, he made a tryout tape and offered it to Mike Chioda, whom he had met in a Philadelphia bar. Chioda sent it to Pat Patterson, who did not try watching it since he expected Wight was another wrestler, Kurrgan. Just when he saw The Giant introduction in WCW did Patterson understand his error, to Vince McMahon's displeasure.

Big showdown Wrestling

In 1995, Wight marked with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he was charged as the child of Andre the Giant (in spite of the fact that this was later dropped) and as needs be utilized the ring name "The Giant" as an individual from Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom stable. Wight made his expert presentation at Halloween Havoc, vanquishing Hulk Hogan by means of preclusion (thanks in some portion of Jimmy Hart meddling amid the match). In doing as such, The Giant got to be WCW World Heavyweight Champion as a stipulation was later uncovered, under which the title could change hands on a preclusion triumph; under ordinary conditions, it can't. After a week, in any case, The Giant was stripped of the title because of the disputable completion of the match.

The Giant's endeavor at recovering the empty title fizzled at World War 3 when he and Hogan disposed of each other, permitting Randy Savage to wind up champion. The Giant collaborated with Ric Flair to annihilation Hogan and Savage at Clash of the Champions XXXII, however was definitively beaten by Hogan in a confine match at SuperBrawl VI. After a short quarrel with Loch Ness, The Giant recaptured the World Heavyweight Championship by crushing Flair. After Hogan shaped the New World Order (nWo), he crushed The Giant for the title at Hog Wild after obstruction from Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. The Giant joined the nWo 23 days after the fact, refering to Ted DiBiase's cash as his essential inspiration, fighting with Lex Luger and the Four Horsemen. In the wake of winning the fight regal at World War 3, Giant approached Hogan for a World Heavyweight Championship title match. For this, he was tossed out of the nWo on December 30. He battled against the nWo alongside Sting and Luger, winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship twice.

In 1997, The Giant started a fight with nWo part Nash, who always evaded the Giant, including no-demonstrating their booked match at Starrcade. In 1998, at Souled Out, the two at long last met in the ring, with Nash inadvertently harming The Giant's neck when he bungled his mark pocketknife powerbomb finisher. Nash couldn't lift The Giant sufficiently high to execute the move legitimately and wound up dropping him onto his head. The hosts were perceptibly staggered, as were Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, who were standing ringside to bolster Nash and experienced considerable difficulties in character.[citation needed] The mess up was worked into a storyline, as indicated by which Nash had deliberately dropped the Giant on his head with a specific end goal to break his neck. When Nash left the nWo and shaped his own stable, the nWo Wolfpac, The Giant rejoined the first nWo to contradict Nash and his partners. While back with the nWo, The Giant won two more Tag Team Championships, once with Sting as an unwilling accomplice (as the match was marked before The Giant came back to the nWo) and once with Scott Hall. Then between those two rules, he lost his half of the titles to Sting in a singles match where just the victor would stay champion and could pick another accomplice.

On the October 11, 1998 scene of Nitro, Bill Goldberg vanquished The Giant in a no-preclusion match. In a show of quality, Goldberg executed a deferred vertical suplex before hitting the Jackhammer on The Giant. After the nWo Hollywood and nWo Wolfpac stables combined again in January 1999, Hogan announced that there was space for one "monster" in the gathering, compelling Giant and Nash to wrestle for that spot. Nash vanquished Giant after a keep running in by Scott Hall and Eric Bischoff. The Giant was then assaulted by the whole nWo. On the "Building An Army" scene of the Monday Night War highlight from the WWE Network, Wight expressed that he was making a small amount of what the fundamental eventers were making and his compensation was not expanded after he asked for it be by Eric Bischoff; accordingly, Wight permitted his WCW contract to terminate on February 8, 1999, his 27th birthday.

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

Wight marked a ten-year contract with the World Wrestling Federation on February 9, 1999, appearing as a detestable individual from Vince McMahon's steady, The Corporation, at St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House. Amid the McMahon versus Steve Austin confine match, Wight tore through the canvas from underneath the ring and assaulted Austin. Be that as it may, Wight cost McMahon the match when he tossed Austin into the side of the enclosure and the confine broke, spilling Austin outside to the floor and conceding him the triumph. Wight in this manner served as McMahon's authority.

Wight executed as "Large Nasty" Paul Wight for a few weeks[citation needed] before being renamed "Huge Show" Paul Wight. He then bit by bit dropped his genuine name, in the long run being alluded to just as "Large Show". McMahon needed to guarantee Corporation part The Rock held his title at WrestleMania, so he had Wight wrestle Mankind at WrestleMania XV for the privilege to arbitrator the headliner. Wight weakened Mankind, yet got precluded all the while, implying that he couldn't be arbitrator. Humanity won the privilege to be the authority however was taken to a healing center after the match with Wight (despite the fact that he in the end returned amid the Championship match). After an angry McMahon slapped Wight, he punched McMahon. Wight finished up his fight with Foley in a Boiler Room Brawl before turning face and joining Mankind, Test, and Ken Shamrock in a stable known as The Union who battled against the Corporation, and later against The Corporate Ministry. On the May 10 scene of Raw, Show was hollowed against The Undertaker's administrator Paul Bearer. On the June 7 scene of Raw, Big Show confronted The Undertaker for the WWF Championship. Funeral director endeavored a clothesline from the top turnbuckle, however Wight got him and conveyed a chokeslam, which sent Undertaker smashing through the ring mat; the official was compelled to stop the match so The Undertaker held his title. Taking after the match Bradshaw, Faarooq, and Mideon all kept running down to assault Big Show and were all along these lines chokeslammed also. Enormous Show and The Undertaker later shaped an impossible cooperation turning him heel once more, wrestling against X-Pac and Kane. As a group, Show and The Undertaker won the WWF Tag Team Championship twice.

After The Undertaker was sidelined with wounds, Big Show started a fight with the Big Boss Man turning face once more. After it was accounted for that Big Show's dad was in critical condition with malignancy (as a general rule, Wight's dad had kicked the bucket years before), the Boss Man had one of his slanted police partners advise Show that his dad had passed on, and afterward derided Show's weepy response. A few weeks after the fact, after Big Show's dad had (kayfabe) kicked the bucket, the Boss Man intruded on the ten-ringer toll by discussing a hostile ballad. Later, Boss Man attacked the memorial service and utilized a chain to couple the casket to the Blues Brothers Bluesmobile, towing the pine box away with a pain stricken Big Show sticking on to it. Huge Show then went up against Big Boss Man, Prince Albert, Mideon and Viscera at Survivor Series in a 4-on-1 disposal match. He inevitably won the match after Big Boss Man left the match and was checked out. Soon thereafter, Wight took the harmed Steve Austin's place in the Triple Threat match for the WWF Championship. In that match, which likewise included The Rock, he stuck Triple H to wind up WWF Champion. At Armageddon 1999, Show crushed Boss Man to hold his WWF Championship, in spite of impedance by Prince Albert.

On the January 3, 2000 scene of Raw, Triple H crushed Big Show for the WWF Championship. Attempting to recover the title, Wight took an interest in the Royal Rumble match where he threatened The Rock, in this manner turning heel simultaneously. The Rock killed him to win the Royal Rumble. Wight was persuaded that he had won, and in the long run created a video tape that demonstrated The Rock's feet striking the ground first. He was then given a match with The Rock at No Way Out, with the WrestleMania title shot on hold. Wight crushed The Rock when Shane McMahon meddled, thumping out The Rock with a seat shot. Rock was edgy to recover his title shot, and in the long run consented to a match with Big Show on the March 13 scene of Raw – on the off chance that he won, the WrestleMania title match would turn into a Triple Threat match, and on the off chance that he lost, he would resign from the WWF. Shane McMahon, now effectively supporting Big Show's offered to end up champion, designated himself as the uncommon visitor ref. In any case, The Rock triumphed when Vince McMahon ambushed Shane and wore the ref shirt, specifically making the most of the three after a Rock Bottom.

On the March 20 scene of Raw, Triple H safeguarded the title against The Rock and Big Show on the condition that the match would not occur at WrestleMania, sticking Big Show. Linda McMahon expressed this match would not happen at WrestleMania as Triple H would guard the title there in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match, with Mick Foley as the fourth man. Huge Show was the principal man wiped out from the match at WrestleMania 2000 after the other three contenders cooperated against him.

Title rules

After WrestleMania, Big Show turned face and went up against a silly contrivance where he started emulating different wrestlers, ridiculing Rikishi as Showkishi, The Berzerker as Shonan the Barbarian, and Val Venis as The Big Showbowski. He crushed Kurt Angle at Backlash dressed like his companion and good example Hulk Hogan as the Showster, complete with skullcap/wig and yellow tights. Show started fighting with Shane McMahon after Shane voiced his objection to Big Show's shenanigans. At Judgment Day 2000, Shane vanquished Wight in a Falls Count Anywhere coordinate after obstruction from Big Boss Man, Bull Buchanan, Test, and Albert. Wight returned two months after the fact, obviously aiming to pick up reprisal on Shane. Rather, he assaulted The Undertaker along these lines turning heel and agreeing with Shane yet again, framing a fleeting stable known as "The Conspiracy" with Shane, Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle, and Edge and Christian. After The Undertaker diverted Show from a phase through a table, he was expelled from WWF TV for the rest of the year. Enormous Show was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, a WWF formative domain, to get more fit and enhance his cardiovascular fitness.

Show returned at the 2001 Royal Rumble, however was disposed of by The Rock. Angered by his brisk end, Wight continued to chokeslam The Rock through the communicate table before leaving the field. He then started vieing for the WWF Hardcore Championship, which he lost to Kane in a Triple Threat coordinate that additionally included Raven at WrestleMania X-Seven.

All through The Invasion, Big Show returned to being a face and stayed faithful to the WWF. He confronted Shane McMahon, the on-screen proprietor of WCW, in a Last Man Standing match at Backlash and was crushed after impedance from Test. Taking after an unscripted backstage meeting, Big Show burst into tears and fled from the arena. Show was likewise part of the successful Team WWF at Survivor Series, however he was the primary man eliminated.

Not long after WrestleMania X8, Big Show turned heel when he chokeslammed Stone Cold amid a label group match against X-Pac and Scott Hall, joining the nWo all the while. At Judgment Day, Big Show and Ric Flair were vanquished by Austin in a Handicap match. The stable disbanded after Kevin Nash was harmed. After the nWo disbanded, Show made little progress on Raw in the wake of losing matches against Jeff Hardy, Booker T, and the Dudley Boyz.

In late 2002, Big Show was exchanged to SmackDown!, quickly difficult Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship. Amid this time, Big Show received another clothing, wearing dark pants and going up against another haircut and facial hair. Huge Show turned into a two-time WWE Champion overcoming Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series, completion Lesnar's undefeated streak with assistance from Paul Heyman. He lost the title to Kurt Angle a month later at Armageddon. At the Royal Rumble, Big Show lost a Royal Rumble qualifying match to Lesnar. He then started quarreling with The Undertaker, after Big Show diverted him from the stage, harming his neck, prompting Big Show and his accomplice A-Train losing to The Undertaker at WrestleMania XIX. He reestablished his fight with Lesnar, wrestling him four times for the WWE title (counting a Stretcher match at Judgment Day), yet was unsuccessful in his endeavor to recover the title. On the June 12, 2003 scene of SmackDown!, Lesnar superplexed Big Show off the ropes and the ring imploded, two ring posts moved and three columns of ropes descended. The official called for EMTs, doctors, mentors, and much more arbitrators. This kept the title in Lesnar's grasp and both went to the doctor's facility. On the June 26, 2003 scene of SmackDown!, Big Show, Shelton Benjamin, and Charlie Haas vanquished Mr. America (a hidden Hulk Hogan), Brock Lesnar, and Kurt Angle in a six-man label group match when Show stuck Mr. America. This was Hulk Hogan's last appearance as Mr. America. For a while subsequently, WWE built up Big Show as the man who resigned Hogan. At No Mercy, Big Show vanquished Eddie Guerrero for the United States Championship and after that shaped a partnership with the then WWE Champion Brock Lesnar. He was disposed of by Chris Benoit at the Royal Rumble in 2004.

Enormous Show relinquished a withdrawing Lesnar instantly before WrestleMania XX. At the compensation per-view, Big Show lost the United States Championship to John Cena. On the April 15, 2004 scene of SmackDown!, Big Show guaranteed to stop on the off chance that he neglected to vanquish Eddie Guerrero that night. He lost to Guerrero after Guerrero played out a Frog Splash, and, trusting that Torrie Wilson had snickered at him for losing, overturned her auto and debilitated to divert her from a ledge. Then General Manager of SmackDown! Kurt Angle climbed the edge to attempt to talk some reason into Big Show, however he chokeslammed Angle off the edge, kayfabe concussing him and breaking his leg, and also bringing about the back of Angle's head to bleed. After the appear, Big Show was neither seen nor got notification from on WWE TV for a considerable length of time.

Different fights

In mid-2004, Big Show was reestablished by new General Manager Theodore Long, as he meddled amid a Lumberjack match between Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle. Enormous Show had a decision to confront either Guerrero or Angle at No Mercy, battling Angle, turning him face. Huge Show crushed Angle at the event. In the weeks prior to the match, he asserted to have "lost his nobility" when Angle sedated him amidst the ring utilizing a dart weapon and shaved his head. At No Way Out he battled John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) for the WWE Championship in the main ever Barbed Wire Cage match. He gag pummeled JBL through the ring and busted the lock on the entryway. Be that as it may, JBL had crept from under the canvas and won. Show beat down JBL and The Cabinet meddled and beat Show down, Dave Batista meddled and beat down The Cabinet, and John Cena beat on JBL as he slithered away.

On April 3, 2005 at WrestleMania 21, Big Show confronted Sumo Grand Champion Akebono in a worked sumo match; the match was added to the show to pull in a solid pay-per-view gathering of people in Japan, where Akebono is viewed as a wearing legend. In the weeks going before the match, Big Show pushed over a jeep headed to the ring by Luther Reigns to demonstrate that he was equipped for moving the insignificantly heavier Akebono. Enormous Show lost to Akebono at WrestleMania 21. Big Show hence fought with Carlito Caribbean Cool and his bodyguard, Matt Morgan.

Joining and quarreling with Kane  

On October 17, Big Show vanquished Edge and was in this manner entered in an online assessment survey, with the victor of the survey confronting John Cena and Kurt Angle in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship at Taboo Tuesday 2005. The survey was won by Shawn Michaels, implying that the other two wrestlers vied for the World Tag Team Championship. Big Show collaborated with Kane to annihilation Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch for the World Tag Team Championship.

In the weeks going before Survivor Series 2005, Big Show got to be included in the contention between the Raw and SmackDown! brands. Enormous Show and Kane attacked the November 11 scene of SmackDown! also, alongside Edge, assaulted Batista (accidentally harming him in the process). On the November 14 scene of Raw, Big Show and Kane vanquished SmackDown! wrestlers and reigning WWE Tag Team Champions MNM in a between brand, non-title match. On November 21, Big Show and Kane "harmed" Batista by conveying a twofold chokeslam onto the windshield of a car. At Survivor Series, Show, Kane, Carlito, Chris Masters, and group chief Shawn Michaels spoke to Raw in a match with Team SmackDown!: JBL, Rey Mysterio, Bobby Lashley, Randy Orton, and Batista. Team SmackDown! won the match, with Orton being the sole survivor. On the November 29 scene of SmackDown!, Big Show wrestled Rey Mysterio in a between brand special match, be that as it may, Kane meddled, bringing about the match being pronounced a no-contest. Following the match, Big Show and Kane assaulted Mysterio until The Undertaker pursued them from the ring. Big Show and Kane came back to SmackDown! on December 2, vanquishing Mysterio and JBL after JBL relinquished the match, asserting the official had jabbed him in the eye. Following the match, Big Show and Kane's endeavor to ambush Mysterio was at the end of the day thwarted, this time when Batista kept running into see them off. thus, on the December 16 scene of SmackDown!, Big Show and Kane were reserved to confront Batista and Mysterio, the Smackdown Tag Team Champions, at Armageddon 2005. They won the match, which set the Tag Team Champions from every brand against one another.

On the December 12 scene of Raw, Big Show partook in a qualifying match for a shot at the WWE Championship in an Elimination Chamber match at New Year's Revolution 2006. Big Show lost to his adversary, Shawn Michaels, by preclusion after Triple H hit Michaels with a seat, deliberately costing Big Show the match and the title shot. In countering, Wight cost Triple H his qualifying match with Kane later that evening. On the December 26 scene of Raw, amid the agreement marking for the match between Big Show and Triple H at New Year's Revolution, Triple H struck Big Show in the hand that Big Show clearly supports when utilizing the chokeslam with his sledgehammer. The next week, Big Show assaulted Triple H while wearing a cast on his hand, utilizing the cushioning gave by the cast to punch an opening in a seat held by Triple H, crushing a screen from the communicate table that Triple H expected to toss at him, and pursuing Triple H far from the ring. At New Year's Revolution, Triple H vanquished Wight in the wake of striking him in the head with his sledgehammer.

Accordingly, Big Show was one of eight members in the 2006 Road to WrestleMania Tournament, the victor of which would get a shot at the WWE Championship. On the February 13 scene of Raw, Big Show confronted Triple H in the competition semi-finals in a match that finished in a twofold consider out. an outcome, Big Show and Triple H confronted Rob Van Dam (the victor of the contradicting semi-finals) in a Triple Threat match to decide the victor of the competition on the February 20 scene of Raw. The match was won by Triple H after he stuck RVD.

In the weeks taking after the competition, Big Show and Kane fought with Chris Masters and Carlito, prompting a World Tag Team Championship title match being booked for WrestleMania 22. Wight and Kane crushed Carlito and Masters, checking Big Show's first triumph at WrestleMania subsequent to torment six defeats. On the next night, Big Show and Kane lost the World Tag Team Championship to Spirit Squad individuals Kenny and Mikey taking after extensive obstruction from alternate individuals from the Spirit Squad. They confronted Spirit Squad individuals Johnny and Nicky in a rematch one week later, however lost by means of exclusion after Kane "snapped" and left the ring to assault alternate individuals from the Spirit Squad. The following fight amongst Kane and Big Show finished in a match at Backlash 2006 that finished in a decision of no-contest.

ECW World Champion and fight

At WWE versus ECW Head to Head on June 7, Big Show was drafted to the recently appeared ECW brand; he expelled his Raw shirt to uncover an ECW shirt amid a twenty-man fight imperial including individuals from the Raw and SmackDown lists against individuals from the ECW roster. Big Show won the match for ECW by dispensing with Randy Orton. Big Show then showed up at One Night Stand, assaulting Tajiri, Super Crazy, and The Full Blooded Italians after their label group match turning him heel again.

On the July 4 scene of ECW on Sci Fi, Big Show beat Van Dam to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship on an ECW show in Philadelphia with the help of ECW's General Manager Paul Heyman, who declined to make the most of the three for Van Dam after Van Dam hit his finisher the Five Star Frog Splash on the Big Show. Heyman then trained Big Show to chokeslam Van Dam onto a seat, before making the three-count. The fans practically revolted when Big Show turned into the ECW World Champion, tossing beverages and void containers into the ring, as Heyman and Big Show celebrated. The triumph made him the main ever proficient wrestler to hold the WWE Championship, WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and ECW World Heavyweight Championship. He is likewise the principal non ECW Original to hold the ECW title. Throughout the following a few weeks, Wight crushed numerous different wrestlers from different brands, for example, Ric Flair and Kane to hold his title yet lost to Batista and The Undertaker by disqualification. He lost to the Undertaker, be that as it may, at The Great American Bash in the main ever Punjabi Prison match; he was a substitute for The Great Khali, who was expelled by SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long and supplanted with Big Show as discipline for an assault on The Undertaker in the blink of an eye before the match. He likewise had a brief quarrel with Sabu, whom he vanquished at SummerSlam.

At Cyber Sunday, Show confronted John Cena and King Booker in a Champion of Champions match. The fans voted in favor of King Booker's World Heavyweight Championship to be on the line. Booker won the match taking after impedance from Kevin Federline, who was simply starting a fight with Cena at the time. At Survivor Series, Cena wrestled Big Show in a conventional 10-man Survivor Series label group match, with Cena and Bobby Lashley leaving as the sole survivors of the match after Cena stuck Big Show to guarantee the triumph because of a twofold group with Lashley. Big Show then started a quarrel with Lashley, who left SmackDown! to join the ECW brand to take an interest in the Extreme Elimination Chamber match at December to Dismember for the ECW Championship. After busting Big Show open by breaking one of the plexiglass pods with his face, Lashley skewered and stuck him to assert the ECW Championship. On December 6, 2006 after an unsuccessful rematch, Big Show required some investment off from the ring to mend wounds he had supported on ECW. After two months of idleness, Wight's agreement terminated on February 8, 2007.

Come back to WWE

A detectably slimmer Wight came back to WWE under his last utilized ring name Big Show, at No Way Out on February 17, expressing that he had lost 108 pounds, when he required some investment off from wounds since December 2006. Huge Show then gave off an impression of being a heel again by endeavoring to assault Rey Mysterio after his World Heavyweight Championship match with then champion Edge however got into a physical encounter with boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. after Mayweather originated from the group to challenge Big Show. The showdown finished with Mayweather breaking Big Show's nose with a punching combination. Big Show was then appointed to the SmackDown brand.

Nonetheless, as the quarrel advanced, the group had been agreeing with Big Show all the more, so the parts had been switched and Mayweather wound up utilizing heel strategies though Big Show turned face. Show lost to Mayweather at WrestleMania XXIV by means of knockout after a shot to the jaw with metal knuckles. On March 31, Big Show occupied with a quarrel with The Great Khali, finishing up at Backlash, where Big Show vanquished Khali sticking him in the wake of executing a chokeslam.

At One Night Stand, Show crushed CM Punk, John Morrison, Chavo Guerrero, and Tommy Dreamer in a Singapore Cane match. Amid the session, he got a bruised eye and profound slice along the eyebrow, which required lines after Morrison swung a Singapore stick to his knee, which made Show fall with the means. As he fell, the means unintentionally moved to one side, which hit Show in the eye. The win gave him contention to confront Kane and Mark Henry at Night of Champions for the ECW Championship, which Henry won by sticking Kane.

Huge Show agreed with Vickie Guerrero in her continuous fight with The Undertaker by assaulting him at Unforgiven turning heel again all the while and later meddling in large portions of Undertaker's matches on SmackDown, most remarkably against Triple H, Jeff Hardy, Chavo Guerrero, and The Great Khali. He went ahead to annihilation Undertaker by knockout at No Mercy. Be that as it may, Show lost to him in a fan voted Last Man Standing match at Cyber Sunday and a Casket Match at Survivor Series. Demonstrate then lost a Steel Cage match against The Undertaker on SmackDown, finishing the fight. At No Way Out, Show wrestled in the Elimination Chamber for the WWE Championship, yet lost in the wake of being the third individual wiped out by Triple H. In March, it was uncovered by John Cena that the Big Show was having mystery relations with Vickie Guerrero. At WrestleMania XXV, Show was included in a Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship highlighting champion Edge and John Cena. At the end of the day, he was unsuccessful as Cena won.

On April 13, Big Show was drafted to the Raw brand as a part of the 2009 WWE draft. At Backlash, Big Show meddled in a Last Man Standing match for the World Heavyweight Championship amongst Cena and Edge when he tossed Cena into a spotlight, in this manner bringing about Edge winning the title and Cena being genuinely injured. He kept on fighting with John Cena, losing to him at Judgment Day by pinfall and at Extreme Rules by accommodation by Cena's accommodation known as the STF, before vanquishing Cena on the June 22 scene of Raw to end the quarrel.

In the weeks preceding Night of Champions, Big Show continually assaulted U.S. Champion Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne among others. He then fought with Kingston over the U.S. Title and earned himself a spot in the six-pack challenge at Night of Champions. At the occasion, Big Show was presented as Chris Jericho's new label group accomplice because of Edge requiring time off to tend to a harm, therefore removing Show from the six-pack challenge for the U.S. Title. Together, Jeri-Show could effectively protect the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship against The Legacy. Jeri-Show effectively safeguarded the title against Cryme Tyme at SummerSlam, MVP and Mark Henry at Breaking Point and Rey Mysterio and Batista at Hell in a Cell. At Bragging Rights, Big Show spoke to Team Raw, however he sold out and assaulted his partners, which prompted Team SmackDown winning, with the goal that he could get an open door at the World Heavyweight Championship. Big Show got his title shot at Survivor Series in a triple risk match against The Undertaker and Jericho, yet the Undertaker effectively held his title.

The 140-day rule of Jeri-Show as Unified Tag Team Champions reached an end at the TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay-per-view on account of D-Generation X (DX). As an individual from the SmackDown program, Jericho could just show up on Raw as a champion thus DX deliberately precluded themselves in a rematch to constrain Jericho off the show. Eventually the groups had a match with a complete completion, however DX still won, flagging the end of Jeri-Show.

On the February 8 scene of Raw, Show recovered the title from DX with his new label group accomplice The Miz in a Triple Threat Tag Team Elimination match, which additionally incorporated the Straight Edge Society (CM Punk and Luke Gallows). On February 16, he and Miz effectively protected the title against Yoshi Tatsu and Goldust on the last scene of ECW. On the March 1 scene of Raw, Show and Miz vanquished DX in their rematch. At WrestleMania XXVI, Show and Miz crushed John Morrison and R-Truth to hold the title again. At Extreme Rules ShoMiz was in a label group gauntlet match where the group that beat them would get a title match the following night on Raw. ShoMiz beat the initial two groups in the gauntlet match, John Morrison and R-Truth, then MVP and Mark Henry. They then lost to The Hart Dynasty, who earned the title shot. On the April 26, 2010 scene of Raw, Show and Miz lost the Unified Tag Team Titles to The Hart Dynasty.

Get-together with Kane

After the title misfortune, he hit The Miz with a knockout punch and embraced Teddy Long, and turned face in the process interestingly since February 2008. Later on in the night as a feature of the 2010 WWE Draft, Big Show was drafted back to the SmackDown brand.

He came back to the brand on the April 30 scene of SmackDown, and was along these lines named the main contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, later on in the night he intruded on World Heavyweight Champion Jack Swagger as he was giving his "Condition of Championship Address" and thumped him out with his mark punch. On the May 7 scene of SmackDown, Big Show sat ringside amid the Swagger/Kane headliner. After Swagger was excluded, Show chokeslammed him through the communicate table. He additionally smashed Swagger's accomplishment festivity and cost him his match with Kofi Kingston in the following week. Huge Show crushed Jack Swagger through preclusion at Over The Limit. On the May 27 scene of Smackdown, General Manager Thedore Long booked qualifying matches for the World Heavyweight Championship match at WWE Fatal 4-Way and that Big Show had officially qualified by overcoming Jack Swagger by means of exclusion at Over the Limit. At WWE Fatal 4-Way he confronted Rey Mysterio, CM Punk and Swagger for the World Heavyweight Title, yet Mysterio won the title. The next night, Swagger appeared his new completing move The Ankle Lock connected the accommodation proceed onward Big Show, therefore harming his lower leg and proceeding with their quarrel. After two weeks on Smackdown, Big Show spared Rey Mysterio, whose lower leg was harmed by the same move, from Swagger. Soon thereafter, Big Show battled Swagger to a twofold check out. Before long he started a fight with CM Punk and his Straight Edge Society, standing up to him the Friday night before the Money in the Bank occasion, and unmasking him to uncover his bare head. Subsequent to neglecting to win the stepping stool match for the Money in the Bank contract, he battled the baffling conceal individual from the SES, likewise unmasking him as Joey Mercury. Show's fight with the Straight Edge Society proceeded after he crushed them in a 3 on 1 Handicap match at SummerSlam and CM Punk at Night of Champions. Big Show was made Team SmackDown's commander for Bragging Rights on the October 8 scene of SmackDown. At the occasion, Big Show was checked out with Sheamus amid the match however his group eventually won with Edge and Rey Mysterio left on the team. He was on Rey Mysterio's group for Survivor Series where he was a survivor alongside Mysterio. The accompanying scene of SmackDown, he was unsuccessful in fitting the bill for King of the Ring as he was vanquished by Alberto Del Rio by tally out because of impedance by his own ring commentator, Ricardo Rodriguez.

On the January 7, 2011 scene of SmackDown, Big Show partook in a Fatal 4-Way match to decide the #1 contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. He lost because of impedance by previous Nexus pioneer Wade Barrett. The following week, Show confronted Barrett, and won by means of DQ, when previous Nexus individuals Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel assaulted him. Minutes after the fact Ezekiel Jackson seemed to help him, yet rather assaulted Big Show. The following week, Barrett, Slater, Gabriel and Jackson educated that they had shaped the Corre. In the next weeks, the Corre kept on attacking Show, because of the size and force of Ezekiel Jackson. At Elimination Chamber, Show took an interest in the Elimination Chamber match, taking out Wade Barrett before wiped out by Kane. Big Show fought with The Corre in the next weeks.

On the March 4 scene of SmackDown, Big Show confronted Kane in an encounter until the Corre meddled on Kane's behalf. However, a miscommunication prompted Kane turning on the Corre. Enormous Show and Kane consequently rejoined to go up against the Corre. At WrestleMania XXVII, Big Show and Kane collaborated with Santino Marella and Kofi Kingston to beat The Corre. On the April 22 scene of SmackDown, the twosome vanquished Corre individuals Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater to win the WWE Tag Team Championship, their second title win as a team. Big Show was drafted to Raw as a part of the 2011 WWE Draft. He and Kane then began quarreling with the New Nexus. In the wake of safeguarding the titles against Wade Barrett and Ezekiel Jackson at Extreme Rules and CM Punk and Mason Ryan at Over the Limit, Kane and Big Show lost their titles to Michael McGilligutty and David Otunga on the next day on Raw. After losing the titles, Show was keep running over by Alberto Del Rio's auto, driven by his ring broadcaster Ricardo Rodriguez, and was sidelined with a damage for very nearly a month. He returned amid a match amongst Kane and Del Rio, assaulting both Del Rio and Rodriguez.

Indicate then started quarreling with Mark Henry after he assaulted and harmed him on the June 17 scene of SmackDown, as Big Show's dissatisfactions and outrage towards Del Rio was diverted accidentally to Mark Henry. Henry struck back by assaulting Big Show amid his match at Capitol Punishment and hitting him with the World Strongest Slam through the communicate table, accordingly costing Show his match against Del Rio. Henry did likewise on Kane through the communicate table the following day on Raw after their arm wrestling match, and again on the June 27 scene. Henry then broke the confine entryway amid the steel confine match between Big Show and Alberto Del Rio, permitting Del Rio to get away. He then assaulted Show with the enclosure entryway, breaking the confine violently. On July 17, 2011 at Money in the Bank, Henry crushed Big Show. After the match, Henry broke Show's fibula, keeping him out of activity for very nearly three months.

World Heavyweight Champion

On the October 7 scene of SmackDown, Show returned and got to be number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship after he assaulted Mark Henry and chokeslammed him through the communicate table. At Vengeance Big Show battled Henry to a no challenge after the ring given way taking after a superplex from Henry, like his match with Brock Lesnar in 2003. This time less harm was done, and the harm basically happened around the lower right hand ring post. Show wound up being taken out on a mechanized truck with a flatbed. Show confronted Mark Henry for the World Heavyweight Championship by and by at Survivor Series winning through preclusion when Henry hit Show with a low blow, a short time later he leg dropped a seat on Henry's leg, much like what Henry did to Show months prior.

On December 18 at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, Big Show at last crushed Henry for the World Heavyweight Championship in a Chairs Match. A while later, Henry thumped Big Show out with a DDT onto a seat and Daniel Bryan quickly traded his Money out the Bank contract on Big Show to win the title. This gave Show the most limited ever World Heavyweight Championship rule, 45 seconds. Show tested Bryan for his reality title on the January 6, 2012 scene of SmackDown, however Bryan held his title by preclusion when he prodded Mark Henry into assaulting him. The next week on SmackDown, Show got a rematch for the title challenged under no exclusion, no tally out principles. Bryan again held his title as the rematch finished in a no challenge after Show unintentionally collided with AJ (Bryan's storyline sweetheart) at ringside, harming her. At the 2012 Royal Rumble occasion, Show confronted Bryan and Henry in a triple danger steel confine match for the world title, however Bryan got away from the steel pen to hold his title. At the Elimination Chamber occasion, Show fizzled again to catch the World Heavyweight Championship after he was dispensed with second by Cody Rhodes.

In the next weeks, Show started a quarrel with Rhodes after Rhodes highlighted Show's humiliating minutes in past WrestleManias, regularly costing Show to lose matches in the process. At WrestleMania XXVIII, Big Show vanquished Rhodes to win the Intercontinental Championship. With this, Big Show turned into the twenty-fourth wrestler to win the Triple Crown Championship and the thirteenth Grand Slam Champion in the WWE. Show then started highlighting humiliating minutes in Rhodes' career. After a four-week rule, Show lost the title back to Rhodes at Extreme Rules in a Tables match. Show got his rematch on the May 7 scene of Raw SuperShow, where he vanquished Rhodes by means of countout after he left the match. After a progression of showdowns with General Manager John Laurinaitis, he was terminated by Laurinaitis for ridiculing his voice on the May 14 scene of Raw.

After six days, Big Show returned on May 20 at Over the Limit, apparently to help John Cena in his match against John Laurinaitis; rather, he thumped Cena out with a WMD and permitted Laurinaitis to win the match by pinfall, and turning heel in the process interestingly since April 2010. The next night on Raw, Big Show clarified that his activities were of need to keep his occupation in the WWE, subsequently bringing about Laurinaitis re-marking him to an "ironclad contract with a gigantic reward", additionally expressing that no one demonstrated to him any sensitivity when he got fired. Over the following couple of weeks, he assaulted Cena, Brodus Clay, Alex Riley, R-Truth, Santino Marella, Zack Ryder, and Kofi Kingston in light of the terms of his agreement. On the June 11 scene of Raw, he incidentally thumped out Vince McMahon after McMahon chose that Laurinatis would be let go if Show lost to Cena at No Way Out in a steel confine. Show went ahead to lose that match and according to stipulation, Laurinaitis was fired. At Money in the Bank, Show confronted Cena, Kane, Chris Jericho, and The Miz in the WWE Championship Money in the Bank stepping stool match, however was unsuccessful as the match was won by Cena. On July 23 at Raw 1000, Big Show assaulted Cena amid his WWE Championship match against CM Punk bringing about a disqualification. He proceeded with the assault on Cena until The Rock made the save. The next week on Raw, a WWE Championship number one contenders match amongst Show and Cena finished in a no challenge because of obstruction from Punk. Tailing this, both Show and Cena were entered in the title match at SummerSlam by Raw General Manager AJ Lee At the occasion, be that as it may, Show was unsuccessful as Punk held the title.

Show returned on the September 24 scene of Raw, assaulting Brodus Clay and Tensai amid their match. Four days after the fact on SmackDown, Big Show vanquished Randy Orton to end up the main contender to the World Heavyweight Championship. Show got his title opportunity on October 28 at Hell in a Cell, where he crushed Sheamus to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the second time. On November 18 at Survivor Series, Show lost a title rematch to Sheamus through exclusion, and holding the World Heavyweight Championship therefore. After the match, Sheamus assaulted Show and over and again hit him with a chair. This prompted a Chairs match on December 16 at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, where Big Show crushed Sheamus to hold the World Heavyweight Championship. On the December 24 scene of Raw, Show was vanquished by Sheamus in a non-title logger match. On the December 28 scene of SmackDown, Show safeguarded his title against Alberto Del Rio, be that as it may, the match finished in a no challenge after Sheamus meddled and assaulted Show. Three days after the fact on Raw, Show shielded the World Heavyweight Championship against Del Rio's ring host Ricardo Rodriguez and vanquished him by means of exclusion after Del Rio assaulted Show from behind. On January 8, 2013, at the recordings of the January 11 scene of SmackDown, Show lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Del Rio in a Last Man Standing match, finishing his rule at 72 days. Show got his rematch for the title in another Last Man Standing match on January 27 at the Royal Rumble, yet was again vanquished by Del Rio when Rodriguez utilized pipe tape to prevent Show from getting up. After Show more than once assaulted Del Rio and Rodriguez, Del Rio crushed Show through accommodation on February 17 at Elimination Chamber to again hold his title.

On the March 1 scene of SmackDown, Big Show thumped out Roman Reigns of The Shield with the KO Punch after Reigns was pushed into him amid an assault on Randy Orton and Sheamus. After the March 4 scene of Raw went off-air, Show was assaulted by the Shield. Four days after the fact on SmackDown, Show again helped Sheamus and Orton in warding off The Shield, however he hit Sheamus with a KO Punch and was hit with a RKO by Orton in return. On the March 11 scene of Raw, Show crushed Shield part Seth Rollins by means of preclusion after whatever remains of The Shield interfered. Orton and Sheamus were then permitted to pick a third accomplice to confront the Shield in a six-man label group match at WrestleMania 29 and initially picked Ryback. However, on the March 18 scene of Raw, Ryback was reserved in another match at the occasion, leaving the spot open. Soon thereafter, Big Show spared the two from an assault by The Shield and was instantly enrolled as their partner. On April 7 at WrestleMania 29, Show, Orton and Sheamus were crushed by The Shield, after which, Show thumped out both of his teammates. The next night on Raw, Orton and Sheamus went head to head in a match to acquire a match with Big Show, nonetheless, the match finished in a no challenge after Show interfered. Show was then vanquished by Orton and Sheamus in two debilitation matches, first on the April 12 scene of SmackDown by means of check out, and second on the April 15 scene of Raw by means of pinfall. On the April 19 scene of SmackDown, Show collaborated with old adversary Mark Henry to overcome Orton and Sheamus in a label group match, with Show sticking Orton for the win. The fight between Big Show and Orton prompted an Extreme Rules match on May 19 at Extreme Rules, which Show lost. After Extreme Rules, Show took a rest from WWE television.

Storyline with The Authority

Following a three-month break, Show made his arrival to WWE on August 11 at a house show in Oakland, California. Show made his arrival on the next night on the August 12 scene of Raw, and checked Henry and Rob Van Dam from an assault by The Shield, and turning face in the process interestingly since May 2012. Four days after the fact on SmackDown, Show, Henry, and Van Dam crushed the Shield in a six-man label group match.

On the accompanying scene of Raw, as an aftereffect of standing in opposition to COO Triple H, Show was set into a three-on-one impairment tornado label group match against The Shield, which Show lost. Additional discipline took after with Show being compelled to sit ringside and watch his companions being assaulted by the Shield and Randy Orton at the danger of being fired. Following this, The Authority (Triple H and Stephanie McMahon) asserted Show was broke, and keeping in mind the end goal to spare his employment, constrained him to thump out his companions including Daniel Bryan, Dusty Rhodes, and The Miz. When Show endeavored to revolt on the September 30 scene of Raw, he was practically captured for debilitating to thump out Triple H yet Stephanie McMahon went to his guide and offended him afterwards. At Battleground, Big Show meddled in the WWE title match amongst Bryan and Orton and thumped out them two, finishing the match in a no-challenge. Amid November 2013, Show began a fight with WWE Champion Orton, who was a piece of the Authority, yet neglected to win the title at Survivor Series.

At TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, Show collaborated with Rey Mysterio to unsuccessfully challenge Cody Rhodes and Goldust for the WWE Tag Team Championship in a four-manner match, additionally including RybAxel (Ryback and Curtis Axel), and The Real Americans (Antonio Cesaro and Jack Swagger). On the January 6 scene of Raw, Show defied Brock Lesnar after Lesnar assaulted Mark Henry. There was a short physical showdown between the two, beginning a quarrel which was settled at Royal Rumble where Show lost to Lesnar subsequent to being mercilessly attacked with various seat shots before the match began. Enormous Show took an interest in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania XXX, being the last individual disposed of by champ Cesaro. On July 26, 2014, Big Show made his arrival at a live occasion, overcoming Cesaro.

He made his TV return on the August 8 scene of SmackDown, cooperating with Mark Henry to overcome RybAxel (Ryback and Curtis Axel). On the September 26 scene of Smackdown, Show began a fight with Rusev when he vanquished Rusev by disqualification. At Hell in a Cell, he was crushed by Rusev by means of accommodation. The next night on Raw, Henry turned on Show and assaulted him, amid their match with the WWE Tag Team Champions Gold and Stardust. On the November 3 scene of Raw, he crushed Henry by means of preclusion when he was pummeled onto the steel ventures by Henry.

At Survivor Series, as a feature of Team Cena, Big Show turned on and thumping out Cena, bringing about his disposal. Be that as it may, Show shook hands with his previous opponent Triple H, and left, deliberately getting himself included out, and turning heel the procedure interestingly since August 2013. The next night on the November 24 scene of Raw, Big Show clarified his activities, expressing he has a family to administer to and the Authority had made issues for him before, in this manner he needed to settle on that intense choice. He was hindered by Erick Rowan who alluded to him as a domineering jerk, and touching off a fight for walking out on the group. Huge Show confronted Rowan in a first since forever Steel Stairs match at Tables, Ladders, and Chairs pay-per-view, which he won. Later in the occasion, Show assaulted John Cena amid his match with Seth Rollins however was then stood up to by Roman Reigns, prompting Cena winning the match. This began a fight amongst Show and Reigns, which brought about Reigns vanquishing Show different times by number out and preclusion. On January 25, 2015, at the Royal Rumble, Big Show entered the Rumble match at #29, taking out five whizzes before being disposed of by Reigns, the possible champ. At Fastlane, Big Show, Seth Rollins and Kane crushed Dolph Ziggler, Erick Rowan and Ryback when Kane stuck Ziggler. Huge Show won the second Annual André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31. Show later reignited his fight with Roman Reigns subsequent to assaulting him amid his triple danger match against Ryback and Randy Orton on the April sixth scene of Raw and chokeslamming him on a taxi on the April twelfth scene of Raw. However, Show lost to Reigns in a Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules.

Different storylines

After a brief rest, Big Show returned on the June 1 scene of Raw, he thumped out The Miz and went up against Intercontinental Champion Ryback, starting a fight with him for the title. During this time, Big Show unobtrusively separated himself from The Authority, yet at the same time stayed faithful to the gathering. Huge Show tested Ryback for the title at Money in the Bank, winning the match by preclusion after The Miz assaulted Big Show. A triple risk match for the title was planned for Battleground, yet because of Ryback enduring a knee damage at the time, the match was moved to SummerSlam; Ryback held the title. On the August 31 scene of Raw, Big Show got another title match against Ryback, where he lost after a diversion from The Miz, finishing the quarrel. On October 3 at Live from Madison Square Garden, Big Show was vanquished by Brock Lesnar. On the November 9 scene of Raw, Big Show entered the 16-man competition to crown the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion and lost to Roman Reigns in the principal round.

On the January 18, 2016 scene of Raw, Big Show crushed Heath Slater and thumped out The Social Outcasts, before communicating with the fans and turning face in the process interestingly since November 2014. At Royal Rumble, Big Show entered the Royal Rumble match at #15 and dispensed with Ryback and Titus O'Neil before being killed by Braun Strowman. On the January 28 scene of SmackDown, Big Show established his face turn by helping Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, and Chris Jericho fight off every one of the individuals from The Wyatt Family, whom he, Kane and Ryback crushed at Fastlane. At WrestleMania 32, Big Show entered his third André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal and had a showdown with old adversary, Shaquille O'Neal, Show was therefore wiped out by different members.

Enormous Show returned on the May 30 scene of Raw in a backstage section, offering counsel to Apollo Crews. On the July 4 scene of Raw, Big Show was a piece of the headliner, where he cooperated with "Group USA", which comprised of himself, Kane, Apollo Crews, Mark Henry, Zack Ryder, Jack Swagger and The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley), going head to head against "The Multinational Alliance", which comprised of Kevin Owens, Chris Jericho, Sami Zayn, Cesaro, Sheamus, Alberto Del Rio and The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara) in a 16-man disposal label group match, with Big Show and Ryder being the sole survivors.

On July 19 at the 2016 WWE draft, Big Show was drafted to Raw. On August 12, Big Show reported he will resign from WWE in 2017.

Individual life

Like André the Giant, Wight used to have acromegaly, an ailment of the endocrine system. By the age of twelve, Wight was 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall, weighed 220 lb (100 kg), and had mid-section hair. In 1991, as an individual from the Wichita State University b-ball group at age nineteen, Wight was recorded at 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m). He experienced fruitful surgery in the mid 1990s on his pituitary organ, which stopped the advancement of this condition. His shoe size is 22 5E, his ring size is 22, and his mid-section is 64 inches (1,600 mm) in circuit. In 2005, Wight rented a transport and employed a transport driver due to the pragmatic issues his size presents to air travel and auto rental.

Wight played ball and American football in secondary school at Wyman King Academy in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina. He was a champion community for the b-ball group and a tight end for the football group. He quit football after his first year, on account of debate with the mentor. He kept on supporting the group by joining the cheerleading squad as a sophomore, mostly from disdain. He later called it "the best experience of my life... others was riding a transport with sweat-soaked hardware and I'm in a van with seven team promoters who are all finding out about existence". The van (a Ford Econoline) was driven by "a mother who was hard of hearing in her right ear and chain-smoked".

While at Wichita State University, Wight played ball. Preceding going to Wichita State University, Wight went to Northern Oklahoma Junior College in Tonkawa, OK, contending on the ball group. At Northern Oklahoma, his midpoints of 14 focuses and 6.5 bounce back earned him all-gathering respects and helped the group win the Western Division of the Oklahoma Bi-State Conference. Wight likewise went to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 1992 to 1993, was an individual from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Cougars b-ball group, and is an individual from the Xi Beta Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon brotherhood at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Amid his one year at SIUE, Wight scored a sum of thirty-nine focuses for the Cougars in constrained action.

Wight wedded his first spouse, Melissa Ann Piavis, on February 14, 1997. They isolated in 2000 and their separation was concluded on February 6, 2002. Together, they have a little girl. On February 11, 2002, he wedded his second spouse, Bess Katramados. Together they have two children.

In December 1998, Wight was captured and confined for supposedly presenting himself to an inn agent in Memphis, Tennessee. Wight denied the occurrence, and was later discharged because of an absence of evidence.

In March 1999, Wight was accused of strike by Robert Sawyer, who asserted that Wight had broken his jaw amid the late spring of 1998 over the span of a squabble at Marriott Hotels and Resorts in Uniondale, New York. Wight asserted that Sawyer had verbally mishandled, undermined, and pushed him, and that he had reacted by punching Sawyer. Following three days, Judge Thomas Feinman conveyed a decision of not blameworthy.

Titles and achievements

Ace Wrestling Illustrated

Youngster of the Year (1996)

Wrestler of the Year (1996)

PWI positioned him 2 of the main 500 singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 1996

PWI positioned him #137 of the main 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003

Big showdown Wrestling

WCW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

WCW World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Lex Luger (1), Sting (1), and Scott Hall (1)

Ruler of Cable (1996)

World War 3 (1996)

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE

WWF/E Championship (2 times)

World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

ECW World Championship (1 time)

WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time)

WWF Hardcore Championship (3 times)

WWE United States Championship (1 time)

World Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with The Undertaker (2), Kane (1), Chris Jericho (1) and The Miz (1)

WWE Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Chris Jericho (1), The Miz (1) and Kane (1)

Andre the Giant Memorial Trophy (2015)

Gloating Rights Trophy (2010) – as an individual from Team SmackDown (with Rey Mysterio, Alberto Del Rio, Jack Swagger, Edge, Tyler Reks, and Kofi Kingston)

24th Triple Crown Champion

Thirteenth Grand Slam Champion

Slammy Awards (5 times)

Label Team of the Year (2009) – with Chris Jericho

Blessed $#!+ Move of the Year (2011) – with Mark Henry

Treachery of the Year (2012) – Knocking out John Cena at Over the Limit

"This is Awesome" Moment of the Year (2013) – Knocking out Triple H on Raw

Match of the Year (2014) – Team Cena versus Group Authority at Survivor Series

Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Most Embarrassing Wrestler (2002)

Freshman of the Year (1996)

Most exceedingly bad Feud of the Year (1999) versus The Big Boss Man

Most exceedingly bad Feud of the Year (2013) versus The Authority

Most exceedingly bad Wrestler (2001, 2002)