Paul Wight did some crazy things back in the day for WCW in the 1990s.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Paul Wight recently sat down with Shakiel Mahjouri of ET Canada to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about the infamous stunt at WCW Halloween Havoc in 1995 against Hulk Hogan where he was pushed off a building, Wight said that’s something he would never do today.
“I definitely wouldn’t even consider doing that now at my age with my wisdom,” Paul Wight said. “Like, ‘No. Why are we doing that?’ But at 22, 23-years-old, I’m like, ‘Yeah, whatever you want to do. Push me off a building? Awesome.’ You know, because you’re just so excited. The thing was for me to fall off the building. It was about four stories into a big airbag. I’m not a stunt man. I’ve never done anything like that, you know?… You’re young and you think you’re bulletproof… Just being young and being funny, when I went over and Hulk’s looking over the top at me, I was flipping him a bird on the way down… It’s a wonder he didn’t bust out laughing when I did it.”
When asked about the rumors of him doing moonsaults while training for his WCW debut, Wight confirmed that is absolutely true.
“Totally true,” Paul Wight said. “It’s probably gone by now. That was done probably with VHS tape it was so long ago that hung around the training room… I had athleticism that was crazy for someone of my size in the game. I could do kip-ups, I could do dropkicks, dropkicks off the top. I could do a moonsault. Believe it or not, the way the industry was then — because it was still transitioning — nobody really knew what to do with me because I was unlike anything anyone had seen before.
“There were rumors of me doing it in Japan. It wasn’t in a match. It was screwing around the afternoon. And then I was told immediately not to do it ever again if I wanted to continue working. I was thinking, ‘Japan is a great place to break it out. Here we go.’ And it was shut down immediately by those that had the creative control.”
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