There were two occasions when Wight knocked out McMahon with a chokeslam.
The November 1st episode of AEW Dynamite is emanating from Louisville, Kentucky and to promote the event, Paul Wight guest appeared on The Babyfaces Podcast.
As their conversation rolled on, Wight was asked if he has the best chokeslam of all-time. While answering the question, he shared that he has knocked Shane McMahon out twice with the maneuver by falling all the way down with the opponent.
I don’t like to brag on myself because understand, the two guys that I know that also do chokeslams are Undertaker and Kane. They do them a little differently… When I first started doing the chokeslam, Terry Taylor and Paul Levesque gave me the chokeslam. Because we were trying to think of a finish because back then, that was a huge deal and there was a guy in ECW named 911 that was doing a chokeslam and I remember telling Terry Taylor — and 911 is a great dude by the way — and I remember telling Terry Taylor, I said, ‘Yeah, but isn’t that (that) guy’s 911 finish?’ And he goes, ‘Kid, when you start doing the chokeslam, no one’s gonna know who he is.’ But my first chokeslam was planing out and going all the way down and then I changed it to just doing the regular because when I hit the mat with the other opponent, I lessened the recoil. I knocked Shane McMahon out twice, with a chokeslam by going down with him and it’s like, okay, well if I just dump you or lay you down flat, but wrestlers, we know what dump means, so if I just dump you down, then it’s better than I go down with you. It looked great; me going down and planing out, but it was tougher on the other guys and when you’re working four, five nights in a row or 17, 18 days in a row on tours and the guy’s taking that every night, you wanna help your opponent out and make sure that he’s okay with it. So I think that my chokeslam was pretty good for pausing.
At WrestleMania 39, Shane made his return to WWE for an impromptu match against The Miz. He suffered a torn quad early in the bout.
McMahon’s son, Declan, provided an update on his father’s recovery and to read the update, click here.
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