The Undertaker remembers Paul Wight having a sure sort of bully mentality when he jumped to WWE from WCW.
On the most recent episode of Six Ft Underneath with Mark Callaway, The Undertaker mirrored on Paul Wight’s WWE arrival in 1999 and the way he got here throughout as a pure bully backstage.
“He (Paul Wight) beats Terry (Bollea) in his very first match, he beats Hulk Hogan,” The Undertaker stated. “After which, in that system down there (at WCW), with these personalities and people — man, he was a handful when he got here up. He thought his sh*t didn’t stink and it was gonna be his means and he was in for a impolite awakening. On the time, he was a pure bully, and he would discuss to individuals. I might simply (be like), ‘No, no, no, no, no, no.’”
The Undertaker remembers slapping The Massive Present at SummerSlam
Kane would then go on to remind The Undertaker of their SummerSlam tag match in opposition to one another when The Deadman slapped Wight in the midst of the match. Humorous sufficient, they have been companions on the time. Taker recalled slapping Wight for doing one thing to X-Pac {that a} big shouldn’t do.
“I had… Being an enormous, particularly again then — now, it’s form of a curse to be an enormous however again then, if you happen to have been that huge, it’s only a blessing,” The Undertaker stated. “Coach John Wood, ‘You possibly can’t educate top,’ proper? And you may’t educate that measurement and he’s a very good athlete. Particularly for as huge as he’s however, he’s a very good athlete. Typically he would do issues that will simply go, like, ‘Oh. A large wouldn’t do this.’
“We have been attempting to make him and he would do one thing foolish after which I might simply… and I might inform individuals, I might inform ‘em like two or 3 times after which lastly it’s identical to, I’ve to up the stakes right here since you’re not listening to me and also you’re harming your individual profession and I’m attempting that will help you however you gotta take heed to me and I feel he — I don’t even know what he — It was one thing. I simply misplaced it a bit bit. He may’ve killed me. Ate me.
“I feel that was the case. I feel we had ganged up on him sufficient. He knew, alright, if he jumped on me, he was gonna have to leap on Kane, he was gonna have to leap on Godfather so, I feel there was sufficient people who this wasn’t price it. Perhaps I ought to pay attention and it’s humorous as a result of in a while, I might hear him telling another child, proper? Among the issues that I instructed him and I used to be simply considering what a full circle second.” [H/T: POST Wrestling]
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