Long absent from in-ring action, this former champion has opened up on their AEW status.
Last seen wrestling alongside Chris Jericho last year during the Jericho Cruise 2024 on 29th January, Paul Wight, aka Big Show, has been missing from in-ring participation. While he made a brief return last year during the 2024 Full Gear event, he again went missing after that.
Recently speaking with Bill Apter on Sportskeeda’s WrestleBinge, Wight opened up on his current wrestling status and if he was still a part of the Jacksonville-based promotion. Confirming his status, the former Heavyweight champion said,
“I am still with AEW, still very happy with AEW, very happy with Tony Khan and what he’s doing.”
Wight joined All Elite Wrestling in 2021 and has performed as an in-ring competitor, color commentator, and authority figure on ROH. While his limited on-screen appearances raised questions about his tenure with the promotion, he recently heaped praises on the promotion’s president, Tony Khan, and how he gives talents the liberty to discover themselves.
” I appreciate Tony and the way he treats talent, and the kind of liberty that Tony gives talent to discover themselves and find themselves. It’s not a cookie cutter process in AEW, they’re not saying ‘This is your ring entrance, this is how you pose, this is what you wear’. AEW is very grassroots, authentic and for me at this stage of the game I appreciate that.”
H/t Wrestletalk
Wight’s official last All Elite Wrestling match was a street fight during the 15th November 2023 episode of Dynamite.
WWE Veteran Believes Tony Khan Cares About His AEW Talents
Earlier this month, during an interview on the Whip Show Podcast, Rhino heaped praises on Tony Khan. following his appearance on the May 7th episode of Dynamite.
“One of the things that I really love about AEW and Tony Khan is not only his passion for wrestling and the direction that he’s taken All Elite Wrestling, but how he really really cares about the talent, you know? And how I’ve seen him take care of some families and stuff and he didn’t have to. It’s just one of those things, I actually seen him in the locker room at TNA when Christian Cage came over to wrestle and I actually told him, ‘Man, that speaks a lot about your character.’ If you care about your employees, at the end of the day, that’s what we are.
We’re talent, we’re employees but we also have families and to know that someone is at the head of the wheel cares that much, it speaks volumes.”
In other news: JC Mateo has opened up on his WWE debut.