Big Show (Paul Wight) jumps ship to AEW

[xrodmuc316]

Originally Posted by Slik I think it was smart to announce in advance bc it gets them buzz to entice people to tune in. They've had plenty of surprise appearances on Dynamite, announcing some things in advance is fine with me.

What buzz?? They signed a 50 year old wrestler that has not done anything meaningful but have a Netflix show cancelled and worked a dark match at Mania in years.

Remember how much they bragged early on how they didn't want hardly anybody from WWE, yet they have continually signed every former WWE guy possible. Hell at this point AEW is like WWE's retirement plan.

"Oh you didn't save your money, go to AEW and get paid!"

How long can they honestly play the "hey look we signed a guy that was held back by WWE, but now they are ALL ELITE!"

"Hey he and Shaq could finally have the match Shaq was too out of shape to have when he was 7 years younger, and it will be SOOOOOOOO much more Elite on a special edition of Dynamite than at Wrestlemania!"

Let's not pretend this is gonna lead to some surge in AEW popularity, it's just gonna be another guy that is gonna have to pretend he is happy jobbing to the Young Bucks while fleecing Tony Khan out of more of his father's money.

[Gerard]

Originally Posted by xrodmuc316 Hell at this point AEW is like WWE's retirement plan. "Oh you didn't save your money, go to AEW and get paid!"

Unfortunately, that's all too true where he is concerned, when he was out of wwe before he returned to do the Mayweather match he was in training for boxing and was apparently in the shit for money big time.

https://www.sbnation.com/longform/20...ght-wwe-boxing

According to Barker, Wight then broke down. “He started crying; saying one of the most — probably one of the most unexpected events of my life; to see a 7-foot, 450 [pound] man sitting there at a desk crying, telling me that he didn’t know what he was going to do. He had to get on with his life. He knew he owed me money.”

They even put his money issues into a storyline on raw where he was suing the authority.

Gonna be mildly amusing to see a fat Jericho alongside a slimline Big Show, was the other way around for years.