Big Show on Busted Radio: Talent too nice; Attitude Era vs Today
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Future WWE Hall Of Famer The Big Show was recently a guest on “Busted Open Radio” to talk about several professional wrestling topics. Show talked about advising the likes of today’s big men such as Braun Strowman, and struggling to find a niche in his early days in the business. Check out the highlights here:
Advising Braun Strowman not to take bumps for Sami Zayn: “No, there isn’t any more politics,” Big Show said. “You didn’t have to out-maneuver the guy next to you who was influencing through promos, or burying you through promos, or doing something to you in the ring that made you look stupid or took advantage of you and did things they shouldn’t do to make themselves look better.
“You had to be conscious of all of that, but nowadays I saw Braun Strowman, what was it – a year and a half ago and was all over him because he was taking a clothesline from Sami Zayn, and he was all, ‘Well, it was just one bump before I would kill him.’ I was like, I don’t care. Sami Zayn should not bump you ever. Sami Zayn does not look like a guy – I asked him if Sami Zayn can kick his a** in real life, he said, ‘Well, no.’ I said, alright then. Why are you taking a bump for him? You know what I mean?
“This is coming from a guy with personal experience who had bumped for the wrong people my entire career because I didn’t want to do the no-fall down stuff. I wanted to be respected as a worker so I can thank my knees, shoulders and back because I wanted to be a worker.”
Struggling to find a niche early on in the business: “My biggest problem was, and this isn’t an excuse, but I didn’t have a mold to fit because I was way too athletic to work like Andre the Giant like everybody wanted me to work. But I wasn’t a phenom like The Undertaker because let’s face it, The Undertaker was the best big man athlete I have ever seen in my life. You have worked with him,” Show said. “You know how amazing he is. So, when you’re a hodge-podge mix trying to fit in the middle where you can’t decide whether you are going to attack the entire locker room one week or get knocked down by the mechanical bull the next week.
“There was a lot of things to work with and I had learned a lot to tell you the truth. I learned a lot from Steve Austin when I started to work with him where things started to click in my head that this was the thing that I should be doing. Then I started understanding the business aspect of it of making people come to the show and putting a**es in seats and delivering every night when you are in the main event. It isn’t that you are in it, but you have to go out there and put that match on with whoever it is.
“I was fortunate as well and had a lot of great guys help me along the way like Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Edge, Eddie Guerrero. The tag team division I tagged with Kane. I got to work with you and D’Von Dudley, so there was a lot of things that helped me along the way to make me understand who I was as a talent.”
Advising Braun Strowman not to take bumps for Sami Zayn: “No, there isn’t any more politics,” Big Show said. “You didn’t have to out-maneuver the guy next to you who was influencing through promos, or burying you through promos, or doing something to you in the ring that made you look stupid or took advantage of you and did things they shouldn’t do to make themselves look better.
“You had to be conscious of all of that, but nowadays I saw Braun Strowman, what was it – a year and a half ago and was all over him because he was taking a clothesline from Sami Zayn, and he was all, ‘Well, it was just one bump before I would kill him.’ I was like, I don’t care. Sami Zayn should not bump you ever. Sami Zayn does not look like a guy – I asked him if Sami Zayn can kick his a** in real life, he said, ‘Well, no.’ I said, alright then. Why are you taking a bump for him? You know what I mean?
“This is coming from a guy with personal experience who had bumped for the wrong people my entire career because I didn’t want to do the no-fall down stuff. I wanted to be respected as a worker so I can thank my knees, shoulders and back because I wanted to be a worker.”
Struggling to find a niche early on in the business: “My biggest problem was, and this isn’t an excuse, but I didn’t have a mold to fit because I was way too athletic to work like Andre the Giant like everybody wanted me to work. But I wasn’t a phenom like The Undertaker because let’s face it, The Undertaker was the best big man athlete I have ever seen in my life. You have worked with him,” Show said. “You know how amazing he is. So, when you’re a hodge-podge mix trying to fit in the middle where you can’t decide whether you are going to attack the entire locker room one week or get knocked down by the mechanical bull the next week.
“There was a lot of things to work with and I had learned a lot to tell you the truth. I learned a lot from Steve Austin when I started to work with him where things started to click in my head that this was the thing that I should be doing. Then I started understanding the business aspect of it of making people come to the show and putting a**es in seats and delivering every night when you are in the main event. It isn’t that you are in it, but you have to go out there and put that match on with whoever it is.
“I was fortunate as well and had a lot of great guys help me along the way like Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Edge, Eddie Guerrero. The tag team division I tagged with Kane. I got to work with you and D’Von Dudley, so there was a lot of things that helped me along the way to make me understand who I was as a talent.”
What was big show best run in he Wwe?
I feel like maybe on smackdown before he shaved his head by I just feel like in the grand scheme he consistently was booked better than mark henry yet henry peak is way higher then show
I feel like maybe on smackdown before he shaved his head by I just feel like in the grand scheme he consistently was booked better than mark henry yet henry peak is way higher then show
My earliest memory of big show was him on his dads casket
His best run was when the Rock used to clown him all the time as the Corporate Champ and even more in 2000 as face. That's probably his most memorable moments.
"Sami Zayn should not bump you ever. Sami Zayn does not look like a guy – I asked him if Sami Zayn can kick his a** in real life, he said, ‘Well, no.’ I said, alright then. Why are you taking a bump for him? You know what I mean?"
Wrestling is all about suspension of disbelief though.
It's fine to take a bump for Zayn if they're doing the little guy wears down the big man like he does with a lot of guys, but to say to never do it can do more harm given the shyt backstage.
Wrestling is all about suspension of disbelief though.
It's fine to take a bump for Zayn if they're doing the little guy wears down the big man like he does with a lot of guys, but to say to never do it can do more harm given the shyt backstage.
Racist show vs Alberto Del Rio was comical while it lasted......Show was brilliant during that time frame
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You know how links is hard to find with everything on the network these days, hopefully my brehs help me out......Recalls him commentating ADR matches and was straight laughs for like 10 min straight......Ordering food at his hotel just being a whiny chatty patty on the phone, and refusing to tip his food delivery guy because he was mexican and such.....
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Show said a lot about guys today not being to outmaneuver guys using promos or going off script
That’s why the product is so terrible. Vince is not letting the guys shine and make competition amongst themselves. Nobody can get themselves over because they’re being told exactly what to do
That’s why the product is so terrible. Vince is not letting the guys shine and make competition amongst themselves. Nobody can get themselves over because they’re being told exactly what to do
Which is funny because Becky Lynch is easily doin that and stands out immensely
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So this thread turned into a revisting Big Show moments instead of actually discussing what he said?
