Paul Wight Shares The Moment He Knew His Time As An Active Wrestler In WWE Was Coming To An End

Paul Wight shares the moment he knew his time as an active wrestler in WWE was coming to an end.

Wight has been a successful pro wrestler across several companies over the years, competing in WWE, WCW, ECW and AEW. At the beginning of 2021, he would exit WWE and would later sign with AEW.

While speaking to TMZ’s Inside The Ring in a new interview, Paul Wight shared the moment he knew his time as an active wrestler was coming to an end.

“I’ll tell you when I knew I was done with WWE, Vince called me Paul one day during the COVID era. In all the years I knew Vince McMahon he never called me Paul. He always called me Show or Big Show, he never called me Paul. We were doing something- I think it was during the Randy Orton angle (and) Vince said ‘Paul can do an interview here,’ and in my brain I died a little bit in my soul, because I knew my opportunities to compete in the ring were pretty much done, because Vince didn’t see me as a talent anymore. Vince was going to start moving me into ambassador roles and all these other things that at the time I didn’t want to be a part of. So that was a lot of my decision, knowing and being around him long enough. There was nothing mean or malicious about it, I could have rolled into that nice role, but at the time I wasn’t ready to give up competing. That’s when I went to Tony Khan, and yeah sure I’ve had knee replacements, knee replacements, I’ve been through hell the last six years, I would have fired me three years ago if you want to be honest about it.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Wight spoke about his opinion on young talent ‘paying dues.’ You can read more about that here.

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