Undertaker and Kane chat Paul Wight.
Joining The Undertaker for a recording of his Six Feet Under with Mark Calaway podcast was Glenn ‘Kane’ Jacobs. As their conversation went on, the focus shifted over to their experiences with Paul Wight a.k.a. The Big Show.
Wight was described as a ‘natural bully’ when he first joined WWF/E. Jacobs brought up the 1999 SummerSlam when he and Sean ‘X-Pac’ Waltman defended the WWF Tag Team Titles against Undertaker and Wight. Undertaker legitimately slapped Wight in the middle of the match.
He went on to state that they ganged up on Wight enough for him to know it would not be worth escalating anything. Undertaker said if Wight did that, he’d also have to deal with Jacobs and The Godfather. He admitted that Wight could have ‘killed him’ and Jacobs said they’re lucky Wight never realized how big he was. Undertaker closed by saying later in their careers, he would see Wight giving the same advice to younger talents that was given to him.
Undertaker: He (Paul Wight) beats Terry (Bollea) in his very first match. He beats Hulk Hogan, and then, in that system down there (at WCW), with those personalities and those — man, he was a handful when he came up. He thought his sh*t didn’t stink and it was gonna be his way and he was in for a rude awakening. At the time, he was a natural bully, and he would talk to people. I would just (be like), ‘No, no, no, no, no, no.’
Kane: Remember the SummerSlam that we had in Minneapolis? And it was me and X-Pac against you and Show?
Undertaker: Yes.
Kane: You literally slapped him in the middle of the match (he laughed)… It was, ‘Come here,’ whap!
Undertaker: I was a little different then.
Kane: He was doing great. He was beating X-Pac up and then he did something. He stepped on him or something —
Undertaker: Something stupid that a giant wouldn’t do.
Kane: I think you told him not to do it before.
Undertaker: I had… Being a giant, especially back then — now, it’s kind of a curse to be a giant but back then, if you were that big, it’s just a blessing. Coach John Wooden, ‘You can’t teach height,’ right? And you can’t teach that size and he’s a really good athlete. Especially for as big as he is but, he’s a really good athlete. Sometimes he would do things that would just go, like, ‘Oh. A giant would not do that.’ We were trying to make him and he would do something silly and then I would just… and I would tell people, I would tell ‘em like two or three times and then finally it’s just like, I have to up the stakes here because you’re not listening to me and you’re harming your own career and I’m trying to help you but you gotta listen to me and I think he — I don’t even know what he —
Kane: Yeah, I forget what it was.
Undertaker: It was something. I just lost it a little bit.
Kane: He literally said, ‘Come here.’ Bam!
Undertaker: He could’ve killed me. Ate me.
Kane: We were so fortunate he didn’t realize how big he really was (he laughed).
Undertaker: Yeah. I think that was the case. I think we had ganged up on him enough. He knew, alright, if he jumped on me, he was gonna have to jump on Kane, he was gonna have to jump on Godfather so, I think there was enough people that this wasn’t worth it.
Kane: Thank goodness.
Undertaker: It wasn’t worth it. Maybe I should listen and it’s funny because later on, I would hear him telling some other kid, right? Some of the things that I told him and I was just thinking what a full circle moment but yeah…
Paul Wight is currently a part of All Elite Wrestling. He shared that himself and AEW President Tony Khan are waiting to pull the trigger on a run for Wight as Captain Insano. He’s competed for AEW six times since joining the company in 2021.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Six Feet Under with Mark Calaway with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
