Big Show Signs With AEW

[julesocean]

He might be good for commentary but he should just retire as a wrestler.

Yeah he washed.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

 

[Silkk]

Just give us Big Show vs Shaq and then take that shyt on somewhere

 

[R=G]

Checking the richest wrestlers of all time..they wrote this at the Big Show portion

At 48 years old, the Big Show is more of a novelty act than a wrestler these days. He had hip surgery in 2018 and doesn't see much ring action.

 

[Chris Cool]

That ecw shyt don't count.

 

[PharaohAtem]

Stealing $ from money marks

I was legit disgusted when I saw this live

 

[Wacky D]

going by this logic, cody, bucks, omega, pretty much their whole roster are not "aew" guys..

i agree.

its an all-star roster.

the biggest names you can file as AEW guys at this point are darby allen, orange cassidy, jurassic express, private party, wardlow, dark order(minus brodie & colt), most of their womens division, etc. and i'll let AEW claim ricky starks & sammy guevara. eventually, theyre gonna lay claim to MJF & adam page. and theyre gonna keep growing from there. ive never seen an instantly relevant promotion, start their roster from scratch.

altho cody/bucks/omega are gonna ultimately go down as AEW guys too, since theyre VPs. but thats different.

This logic is amazing, it's like claiming that Hogan isn't a WWE guy but an AWA guy

older fans do indeed see it that way tho.

he became the hottest thing in wrestling while he was in the AWA.

 

[Malik1time]

damn ya really hate big show
shessh i didnt know so many people dont like him

 

[Wacky D]

Right... also, the whole idea of anyone being "stolen" is dumb. There's barely a wrestler in existence that stayed at one company their entire career, and any time they went to another company it's because that's where they chose to go. Ain't nobody get kidnapped and forced to wrestle elsewhere

i was being sarcastic.

the whole "stolen" thing, is a narrative that WWE fanboys started running with, whenever someone jumped to WCW. thats why i sarcastically brought that word up when vince signed the big show away from WCW.
which is double the funny, because the WWF were the ones who really were STEALING talent by poaching wrestlers who were under contract. not saying that was the case for the big show, but it was in other cases .

 

[Reality Check]

eventually, theyre gonna lay claim to MJF & adam page

Hangman Page is 100% an AEW guy. Got the "founding father" contract and has accomplished more in 2 years of AEW than he did in combined between ROH and New Japan. Guessing he's also going to be the one who eventually dethrones Omega (think they might save this for All Out when more fans could be in attendance).

 

[King Kai]

We all know what's gotta happen now

I’m at Cena in the chicken leg tights

 

[Reality Check]

“Vince actually called me the day that it was announced that I signed with AEW, wished me a lot of luck, I agree that I'm a huge asset at AEW, thank me for all the years that I worked in WWE. There's no animosity, there's no anger, there's no dirt, so to speak. It just came down to contract negotiations and opportunities. Let's face it, and over 20 years at WWE I have done everything there is to do and WWE. I needed a fresh start. For me, I think Vince understands that and understands that for me, as a talent, this was the opportunity to do that. But, you follow the rules.

“I couldn't reach out to Tony Khan or AEW while I was still under contract. I came to terms with a mutual dissolution of services when I left WWE. There's no anger. I needed the freedom to pursue different opportunities and when that contract came to an end, that was the thing where I took the leap of faith and hoped that my reputation and the industry in the work that I've done, would earn me a meeting with Tony Khan and just to be able to talk to him and hope that he would understand that I can be an asset for AEW and when I contract expired, I had a chance to drive up to Jacksonville and Tony and I had a meeting at 10:00 at night in his office and we talked about wrestling and psychology and what I want to do in AEW and one of the big passions that I've had for a long time is getting into color commentary and trying to bring my experience from the ring, like Gorilla Monsoon or Jesse Ventura would bring to commentary to bring the talent in the ring forward and help tell the stories, and also the opportunity for me to compete with some fresh talent, some people I haven't had the opportunity to work angles with oh, some people that I can also help get better. Also, a new environment, a new place to work, helps reinvigorate yourself.”

Despite his happiness to be in a new environment, Wight says there was some trepidation on his behalf about leaving WWE.

“Believe me, leaving WWE was a little bit scary because I had so much tenure there and so much experience and had basically already paid every due that I needed to pay in WWE. To leave that stock and to put a lot of faith in yourself and say, ‘hey, if you're really passionate about this and you want to do this,’ then you have to put your big boy pants on and give it a shot. I'm very grateful and very thankful that it all worked out.”

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