Paul Wight

Paul Donald Wight II is an American professional wrestler and actor He is signed to All Elite Wrestling AEW as an inring performer and as a commentator for its web television show AEW Dark Elevation under his real name of Paul Wight He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling WCW from 1995 to 1999 as The Giant and with WWE from 1999 to 2021 under the ring name Big Show Wight began his career in 1994 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 In early 1999 he left WCW to join WWE Between WWE and WCW he is a seventime world champion having held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice the WWE Championship twice WWEs World Heavyweight Championship twice and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once making him the only wrestler who has won all four titles He is also an 11time world tag team champion holding the World WWE and WCW World Tag Team Championships multiple times with various partners Having also won the Intercontinental United States and Hardcore championships he is the 24th Triple Crown and 12th Grand Slam winner in WWE history He also won the 60man battle royal at World War 3 and the 30man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31 He has headlined multiple payperview events for WCW and WWFWWE since 1995 including the 2000 edition of WWEs premier annual event WrestleMania 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 Networks comedydramas Royal Pains Psych and the actiondrama Burn Notice He had lead roles in the WWE Studios comedy film Knucklehead and the Netflix sitcom The Big Show Show