Before that, he attended Northern Oklahoma Junior College in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, where his basketball averages of 14 points and 6.5 rebounds earned him all-conference honors and helped the team win the Western Division of the Oklahoma Bi-State Conference. He played basketball at Wichita State University. The van was driven by "a mom who was deaf in her right ear and chain-smoked". Everybody else was riding a bus with sweaty equipment, and I'm in a van with seven cheerleaders who are all learning about life". He later called it "the greatest experience of my life. He continued to support the team by joining the cheerleading squad as a sophomore, partly from spite. He quit football after his freshman year because of disputes with the coach. He was a standout center for the basketball team and a tight end for the football team. He played basketball and American football in high school at Wyman King Academy in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina. In 2005, he leased a bus and hired a bus driver because of the practical problems his size presents to air travel and car rental. His shoe size is 22 5E, his ring size is 22, and his chest is 64 inches (1,600 mm) in circumference. He underwent successful surgery in the early 1990s on his pituitary gland, which halted the growth. In 1991, as a member of the Wichita State University basketball team at age 19, he was listed at 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m). By the age of twelve, he was 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall, weighed 220 lb (100 kg), and had chest hair. He was born with acromegaly, a disease of the endocrine system that causes accelerated growth. Wight was born February 8, 1972, in Aiken, South Carolina. ![]() ![]() He had lead roles in the WWE Studios comedy film Knucklehead and the Netflix sitcom The Big Show Show. Outside of professional wrestling, Wight has appeared in feature films and television series such as Jingle All the Way, The Waterboy, Star Trek: Enterprise, and two USA Network's comedy-dramas Royal Pains, Psych and the action-drama Burn Notice. He has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WCW and WWF/WWE since 1995, including the 2000 edition of WWE's premier annual event, WrestleMania. He also won the 60-man battle royal at World War 3 and the 30-man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31. Having also won the Intercontinental, United States and Hardcore championships, he is the 24th Triple Crown and 12th Grand Slam winner in WWE history. In early 1999, he left WCW to join the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).īetween WWF/WWE and WCW, he has held 23 total championships - including being a seven-time world champion, having held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, the WWF/WWE Championship twice, WWE's World Heavyweight Championship twice and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once, (making him the only wrestler who has won all four titles), and an 11-time world tag team champion, holding the WWF/World, WWE and WCW World Tag Team Championships multiple times with various partners. In 1995 he signed with WCW, where, due to his very large frame, he was known by the ring name The Giant (and was initially introduced as "the son of André the Giant"). Wight began his wrestling career in 1994. Wight played college basketball at Wichita State University before transferring to other schools. ![]() He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1995 to 1999 as The Giant and his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) from 1999 to 2021 under the ring name (The) Big Show. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as an in-ring performer, and as a commentator for its web television show, AEW Dark: Elevation, under his real name of Paul Wight. Paul Donald Wight II (born February 8, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and actor.
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