The Undertaker recalls Paul Wight having a certain type of bully mentality when he jumped to WWE from WCW.
On the latest episode of Six Feet Under with Mark Callaway, The Undertaker reflected on Paul Wight’s WWE arrival in 1999 and how he came across as a natural bully backstage.
“He (Paul Wight) beats Terry (Bollea) in his very first match, he beats Hulk Hogan,” The Undertaker said. “And then, in that system down there (at WCW), with those personalities and those — man, he was a handful when he came up. He thought his sh*t didn’t stink and it was gonna be his way and he was in for a rude awakening. At the time, he was a natural bully, and he would talk to people. I would just (be like), ‘No, no, no, no, no, no.’”
The Undertaker recalls slapping The Big Show at SummerSlam
Kane would then go on to remind The Undertaker of their SummerSlam tag match against each other when The Deadman slapped Wight in the middle of the match. Funny enough, they were partners at the time. Taker recalled slapping Wight for doing something to X-Pac that a giant shouldn’t do.
“I had… Being a giant, especially back then — now, it’s kind of a curse to be a giant but back then, if you were that big, it’s just a blessing,” The Undertaker said. “Coach John Wooden, ‘You can’t teach height,’ right? And you can’t teach that size and he’s a really good athlete. Especially for as big as he is but, he’s a really good athlete. Sometimes he would do things that would just go, like, ‘Oh. A giant would not do that.’
“We were trying to make him and he would do something silly and then I would just… and I would tell people, I would tell ‘em like two or three times and then finally it’s just like, I have to up the stakes here because you’re not listening to me and you’re harming your own career and I’m trying to help you but you gotta listen to me and I think he — I don’t even know what he — It was something. I just lost it a little bit. He could’ve killed me. Ate me.
“I think that was the case. I think we had ganged up on him enough. He knew, alright, if he jumped on me, he was gonna have to jump on Kane, he was gonna have to jump on Godfather so, I think there was enough people that this wasn’t worth it. Maybe I should listen and it’s funny because later on, I would hear him telling some other kid, right? Some of the things that I told him and I was just thinking what a full circle moment.” [H/T: POST Wrestling]
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What do you make of The Undertaker’s comments overall? Do you think Paul Wight’s run in WCW didn’t properly prepare him for what was to come later in WWE? Let us know your thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.
