An old clip of Big Show describing exactly what he used to eat in his 20s is making the rounds again, and it’s the kind of order that makes you understand why he was once billed at over 500 pounds. The timing is funny, because the man behind it, Paul Wight, currently looks nothing like the guy in that story.
What Big Show Actually Used to Order
Wight‘s old fast food routine resurfaced this week courtesy of Cultaholic Wrestling, pulling from a past interview where he laid it all out.
At McDonald’s, his order was two Big Macs, 20 McNuggets, three orders of fries, a drink, a milkshake, and an apple pie.
At Taco Bell, he’d get two 10-packs of tacos, 20 tacos in one sitting. At White Castle, the number was 40 sliders.
Add it up and Wight has said he was regularly eating somewhere around 12,000 to 13,000 calories a day, sometimes closer to 18,000, during the years he was building the frame that made him a seven-foot main event attraction in WWE and WCW.
The Diet (and the Body) Look Completely Different Now
That old order is a relic at this point. Wight has spent the past couple of years on a very public weight loss journey, working with longtime trainer Dodd Romero on a mix of swimming, biking, and weight training. Speaking to talkSPORT ahead of AEW‘s All In at Wembley Stadium, Wight put a number on it: “I’m only 383 (pounds) now, I’ve lost some weight. We’re doing good. I want to get down to about 350.” At his heaviest, he was billed north of 530 pounds, which puts his total loss at well over 100 pounds.
He’s kept the goal-setting lighthearted, too, joking about a new career path once he hits his target: “I want to become a Calvin Klein underwear model, so I’m working on it. Their big and tall section.”
And It’s Already Paying Off in the Ring
Wight‘s conditioning work showed up in a real way on July 8, before AEW Dynamite: Beach Break. Steve Borden Jr., Sting‘s son, was getting jumped alongside Kiran Grey by The Swirl (Blake Christian and Lee Johnson) after a dark match when Wight‘s music hit. He ran down, chopped one attacker over the top rope and chokeslammed the other, in his first physical AEW segment in almost two years.
The moment carried some extra weight given Wight‘s own history with the Borden family. Long before he was Big Show, he wrestled as The Giant in WCW, where he had some of his biggest matches against Sting and even held the WCW World Tag Team Championship alongside him. Watching him show up to protect Sting‘s kid, decades later and well over 100 pounds lighter, is the kind of full-circle moment wrestling fans live for.
