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22. Ribbing Vince
We open with a hilarious story where Big Show describes how he used to like to pull a rib on his boss by waiting until his office at each arena was vacant, then sneaking in and defecating in his private bathroom without flushing, leaving it floating there for Vince to find when he returned.
Show figured he had gotten away with it, but meanwhile he was being booked in a pointless feud against The Great Khali. He says that Khali is a great guy, but if you’re working with him you pretty much have to do everything while he stands there, and after about a month he went to Vince and asked where the program was going.
Vince responded with “I don’t know, are you going to stop sh*tting in my bathroom?” Show laughed and said he realized that Vince had figured it out all along – because “it looked like a rhino took a dump in his office” – and the matches with Khali were his way of getting back at him.
21. Rooming With Sherri
Big Show then tells a story of when he was training in WCW at the Power Plant. The company had put him up in a nice apartment in Marietta, which is just outside of Atlanta – all expenses paid – for him to live in while he was learning the ropes. Sherri, who at the time was working with Harlem Heat, asked if she could rent out a room from him when she was in town.
Show replied that he wasn’t paying anything for the place and that she could stay there free of charge. He puts over what a great person Sherri was, saying that she taught him a lot about the business, and mentions that she even dated his manager for a while.
Sherri is one of those people who you rarely ever hear anything negative about. Everyone seems to have thought very highly of her and Show says he benefited from her quite a bit when he was just starting out.
20. Getting Discovered
Jericho asks Show how he broke into the business and he says he started off at Larry Sharpe’s Monster Factory in New Jersery – perhaps best known for Bam Bam Bigelow, but didn’t do anything there other than run the ropes. He met Raven in a bar who showed him how to lock up, and not long after that he ran into referee Mike Chioda at a club and gave him a tape of himself running the ropes.
The tape made its way back to Pat Patterson, who got Show confused with another giant, Kurrgan, formerly of The Truth Commission and The Oddities and now a reasonably successful actor. While Vince and Pat were backstage watching Show’s match with Hulk Hogan at Halloween Havoc 1995, Chioda walked in and asked Pat why they never signed Show. When Vince realized the mistake Patterson had made he was heated, knowing they’d missed a chance to sign the guy main eventing the opposition’s pay-per-views.
19. Meeting Hulk Hogan
Out of all the people you’d expect to help get someone into the wrestling industry, Danny Bonaduce is probably not on that list, but we have him to thank for helping Paul Wight make it to the squared circle.
Wight had left The Monster Factory because he felt like he needed to learn a lot more elsewhere, and went back to Chicago where his manager was doing karaoke on Danny Bonaduce’s morning radio show. Bonaduce had a charity basketball vs. Hogan’s team, and Danny wanted to bring Show in as a secret partner and introduce him to The Hulkster.
16. Almost Fighting Booker T
Show relates a tale of a dispute he had with Booker T while he was training at The Power Plant. He talks about how close the two are and calls him a great teacher and friend, but says that he used to talk a lot of trash back in the day – and Jericho agrees – which almost led to a brawl between the two.
Booker had come down to the plant to pick up his check and while Show was in the ring he started hazing him, saying that he only got signed because he was big. Wight took exception to his remarks, saying that he was in there busting his *ss, and the two almost got into a scuffle.
He says it’s funny looking back at how sensitive he was, and that all that’s long gone. The two never actually came to blows, but says that Booker is a bad*ss and if it had it probably wouldn’t have turned out that well for him.
15. Jeri-Show
After Jericho asks Show how many fights he’s been and he replies that it hasn’t happened often, he compares himself to Jericho who he calls a pitbull and a sledgehammer. This turns to talk of the time the two spent tagging together, and how beneficial it was for him because Chris was so relentless with his vision that he could beat Vince and Pat into submission until they went along with his ideas.
Both men talk about how that team was their favorite, and Show says he learned a completely different aspect of psychology working with Jericho and that they had a special dynamic that complimented each other very well.
Chris relates how he refuted the office’s idea to pair him with a younger guy for his feud with DX saying that they would eat them alive, and the alternatives were Kane and Big Show. After they decided to pair he and Show, he said that they had to remind that audience that Big Show was a giant and build him back up as a threat.
13. The Lack Of Storytelling In The Current Product
Big Show talks about how Jericho would never let the office prostitute them with bad ideas, and then begins talking about how there’s a serious lack of continuity in the storytelling. He said years ago they were looking ahead four months when planning out a show, but now they don’t even plan two weeks in advance, just focusing on that week’s TV.
He mentions a few weeks ago where he knocked out both John Cena and Roman Reigns on the same episode, and the very next show they didn’t even mention it. He protested that as a heel, he should be bragging about knocking out two of the biggest babyfaces in the company, and the response he got was that it didn’t fit the format of the show, which he calls shooting themselves in the foot.
Jericho says the company gets mad when the remaining veterans – the two of them, Kane, Goldust, etc. – on the roster point out the mistakes being made. Show says that the twenty something writers on staff work very hard but that there’s no bridges in the storytelling.
He remarks that getting over is less about flashy moves and more about telling stories and getting people emotionally invested. In response to fans who want him to step aside and give the young guys a break, he says: “Hey, jack*sses…in the past two years I’ve won two matches. I’m pretty sure I’m stepping aside. I’m doing everything I can to make every guy I work with. I’m a recognized entity.”
Show says he’ll lose every match for the rest of his life as long as he can tell a good story.
12. The Undertaker
Jericho calls his former tag team partner underrated, and he says that he’s not as good as Kane or Undertaker but better than someone like Andre, who couldn’t work his style in today’s product because the fans expect movement and athleticism. He praises Undertaker for being to evolve his style and adapt with the times. Show says that the current roster is so thin that he has to fill a lot of holes.
Chris asks if Taker taught him a lot when he came to WWE, and he responds that he was amazing and brutal at the same time. He describes the environment as trial by fire and you were lucky if you found a veteran willing to help you, and Taker took Show under his wing, which he calls the best thing to ever happen to him.
Show would make an effort to avoid Undertaker because of how harsh a critic he was, but because he had so much respect for him he took that as motivation to rise to his challenges to become a better worker.
11. The nWo’s Effect On WCW
The two men bicker a bit about which one was the first to make the jump from WCW (it was Big Show) and Show says that the atmosphere wasn’t nearly as bad around there until the nWo showed up. He talks about how guys got paid whether they worked or not so there wasn’t a lot of politicking and complaining.
He says that when the nWo came in he watched them manipulate the system to their benefit and destroyed the entire system down there. He says it got to a point where they weren’t even working and still making three or four times what everyone else was, refusing to even travel to the unimportant towns.
Once they got in Bischoff’s ear and started influencing the direction of the company he knew it was time to get out of there.
10. Being Ribbed By Hogan
Jericho inquires if Show was viewed as one of “Hulk’s guys” when he was in WCW, and he says that it was more that Hogan brought him in, plus the two lived in Tampa so there was a kinship there, but that Hulk didn’t put a protective shield around him. “You only got that before you started working with him.”
He talks about winning the title from Hogan and the former champ telling him that he had to wear the belt everywhere so the people would know there was a new champion, and walking the airport with the belt on oblivious to the fact that he was being ribbed.
He says the other wrestlers were having fun with it, giving him thumbs up and what not, until finally Sting walks up and asks him why he’s wearing the belt. He explains that Hogan told him to do it, and Sting replies with “Please put it in your bag, you look like an idiot.”
22. Ribbing Vince
We open with a hilarious story where Big Show describes how he used to like to pull a rib on his boss by waiting until his office at each arena was vacant, then sneaking in and defecating in his private bathroom without flushing, leaving it floating there for Vince to find when he returned.
Show figured he had gotten away with it, but meanwhile he was being booked in a pointless feud against The Great Khali. He says that Khali is a great guy, but if you’re working with him you pretty much have to do everything while he stands there, and after about a month he went to Vince and asked where the program was going.
Vince responded with “I don’t know, are you going to stop sh*tting in my bathroom?” Show laughed and said he realized that Vince had figured it out all along – because “it looked like a rhino took a dump in his office” – and the matches with Khali were his way of getting back at him.
21. Rooming With Sherri
Big Show then tells a story of when he was training in WCW at the Power Plant. The company had put him up in a nice apartment in Marietta, which is just outside of Atlanta – all expenses paid – for him to live in while he was learning the ropes. Sherri, who at the time was working with Harlem Heat, asked if she could rent out a room from him when she was in town.
Show replied that he wasn’t paying anything for the place and that she could stay there free of charge. He puts over what a great person Sherri was, saying that she taught him a lot about the business, and mentions that she even dated his manager for a while.
Sherri is one of those people who you rarely ever hear anything negative about. Everyone seems to have thought very highly of her and Show says he benefited from her quite a bit when he was just starting out.
20. Getting Discovered
Jericho asks Show how he broke into the business and he says he started off at Larry Sharpe’s Monster Factory in New Jersery – perhaps best known for Bam Bam Bigelow, but didn’t do anything there other than run the ropes. He met Raven in a bar who showed him how to lock up, and not long after that he ran into referee Mike Chioda at a club and gave him a tape of himself running the ropes.
The tape made its way back to Pat Patterson, who got Show confused with another giant, Kurrgan, formerly of The Truth Commission and The Oddities and now a reasonably successful actor. While Vince and Pat were backstage watching Show’s match with Hulk Hogan at Halloween Havoc 1995, Chioda walked in and asked Pat why they never signed Show. When Vince realized the mistake Patterson had made he was heated, knowing they’d missed a chance to sign the guy main eventing the opposition’s pay-per-views.
19. Meeting Hulk Hogan
Out of all the people you’d expect to help get someone into the wrestling industry, Danny Bonaduce is probably not on that list, but we have him to thank for helping Paul Wight make it to the squared circle.
Wight had left The Monster Factory because he felt like he needed to learn a lot more elsewhere, and went back to Chicago where his manager was doing karaoke on Danny Bonaduce’s morning radio show. Bonaduce had a charity basketball vs. Hogan’s team, and Danny wanted to bring Show in as a secret partner and introduce him to The Hulkster.
16. Almost Fighting Booker T
Show relates a tale of a dispute he had with Booker T while he was training at The Power Plant. He talks about how close the two are and calls him a great teacher and friend, but says that he used to talk a lot of trash back in the day – and Jericho agrees – which almost led to a brawl between the two.
Booker had come down to the plant to pick up his check and while Show was in the ring he started hazing him, saying that he only got signed because he was big. Wight took exception to his remarks, saying that he was in there busting his *ss, and the two almost got into a scuffle.
He says it’s funny looking back at how sensitive he was, and that all that’s long gone. The two never actually came to blows, but says that Booker is a bad*ss and if it had it probably wouldn’t have turned out that well for him.
15. Jeri-Show
After Jericho asks Show how many fights he’s been and he replies that it hasn’t happened often, he compares himself to Jericho who he calls a pitbull and a sledgehammer. This turns to talk of the time the two spent tagging together, and how beneficial it was for him because Chris was so relentless with his vision that he could beat Vince and Pat into submission until they went along with his ideas.
Both men talk about how that team was their favorite, and Show says he learned a completely different aspect of psychology working with Jericho and that they had a special dynamic that complimented each other very well.
Chris relates how he refuted the office’s idea to pair him with a younger guy for his feud with DX saying that they would eat them alive, and the alternatives were Kane and Big Show. After they decided to pair he and Show, he said that they had to remind that audience that Big Show was a giant and build him back up as a threat.
13. The Lack Of Storytelling In The Current Product
Big Show talks about how Jericho would never let the office prostitute them with bad ideas, and then begins talking about how there’s a serious lack of continuity in the storytelling. He said years ago they were looking ahead four months when planning out a show, but now they don’t even plan two weeks in advance, just focusing on that week’s TV.
He mentions a few weeks ago where he knocked out both John Cena and Roman Reigns on the same episode, and the very next show they didn’t even mention it. He protested that as a heel, he should be bragging about knocking out two of the biggest babyfaces in the company, and the response he got was that it didn’t fit the format of the show, which he calls shooting themselves in the foot.
Jericho says the company gets mad when the remaining veterans – the two of them, Kane, Goldust, etc. – on the roster point out the mistakes being made. Show says that the twenty something writers on staff work very hard but that there’s no bridges in the storytelling.
He remarks that getting over is less about flashy moves and more about telling stories and getting people emotionally invested. In response to fans who want him to step aside and give the young guys a break, he says: “Hey, jack*sses…in the past two years I’ve won two matches. I’m pretty sure I’m stepping aside. I’m doing everything I can to make every guy I work with. I’m a recognized entity.”
Show says he’ll lose every match for the rest of his life as long as he can tell a good story.
12. The Undertaker
Jericho calls his former tag team partner underrated, and he says that he’s not as good as Kane or Undertaker but better than someone like Andre, who couldn’t work his style in today’s product because the fans expect movement and athleticism. He praises Undertaker for being to evolve his style and adapt with the times. Show says that the current roster is so thin that he has to fill a lot of holes.
Chris asks if Taker taught him a lot when he came to WWE, and he responds that he was amazing and brutal at the same time. He describes the environment as trial by fire and you were lucky if you found a veteran willing to help you, and Taker took Show under his wing, which he calls the best thing to ever happen to him.
Show would make an effort to avoid Undertaker because of how harsh a critic he was, but because he had so much respect for him he took that as motivation to rise to his challenges to become a better worker.
11. The nWo’s Effect On WCW
The two men bicker a bit about which one was the first to make the jump from WCW (it was Big Show) and Show says that the atmosphere wasn’t nearly as bad around there until the nWo showed up. He talks about how guys got paid whether they worked or not so there wasn’t a lot of politicking and complaining.
He says that when the nWo came in he watched them manipulate the system to their benefit and destroyed the entire system down there. He says it got to a point where they weren’t even working and still making three or four times what everyone else was, refusing to even travel to the unimportant towns.
Once they got in Bischoff’s ear and started influencing the direction of the company he knew it was time to get out of there.
10. Being Ribbed By Hogan
Jericho inquires if Show was viewed as one of “Hulk’s guys” when he was in WCW, and he says that it was more that Hogan brought him in, plus the two lived in Tampa so there was a kinship there, but that Hulk didn’t put a protective shield around him. “You only got that before you started working with him.”
He talks about winning the title from Hogan and the former champ telling him that he had to wear the belt everywhere so the people would know there was a new champion, and walking the airport with the belt on oblivious to the fact that he was being ribbed.
He says the other wrestlers were having fun with it, giving him thumbs up and what not, until finally Sting walks up and asks him why he’s wearing the belt. He explains that Hogan told him to do it, and Sting replies with “Please put it in your bag, you look like an idiot.”
Khali cursing back.
Gotta come back to this, told yall a Big Show book would be 
Booker was right about Show
but he still got a family to feed.
was 
