When Paul Wight first burst onto the scene in WCW again in 1995 as The Big, he did in order the kayfabe son of wrestling legend Andre the Big. The thought — which supposedly got here from the thoughts of Hulk Hogan – caught with Wight all through his rookie 12 months as a member of the Dungeon of Doom. It additionally doubtless performed a consider him profitable the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice. The connection between Andre and Wight would later be dropped when Wight went on to affix the NWO late in the summertime of 1996.

Throughout an look on T95: The Rock Station just lately, Wight was requested about his transient time portraying as Andre’s son. In the course of the dialog, he shared that the choice to attach him with Andre was largely a product of how WCW — and wrestling typically — approached introducing new expertise on the time.

“That is how they did issues again within the day,” Wight mentioned. “Once you get launched, you have to have some sort of legacy and validity of who they’re. And that was one of many methods they did it. Arn Anderson wasn’t actually Ole Anderson’s nephew — stuff like that.”

“There was numerous that happening. ‘Someone associated to someone. That is why they’re right here.’ So that they billed me as Andre’s son,” he continued, “and we have been off and operating after that.”

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