WWEs Big Show blames fat and out of shape Shaq for lack of WrestleMania match
Since the Big Show and Shaquille O’Neal came face-to-face in the ring at last year’s WrestleMania, fans assumed the two would likely meet in a match at this year’s event. On Friday, however, the Big Show — whose real name is Paul Wight Jr. –confirmed that’s not going to happen, or at least not how most assumed it would.
“It’s on Shaq,” the Big Show said (via ESPN) about the lack of a main-card match. “He has to figure things out in his own camp. Maybe he is just too scared to show up because he’s too busy riding around singing karaoke with John Cena and going to Krispy Kreme and getting fatter every week.”
The Big Show’s response came after Shaq insinuated in his “Big Podcast With Shaq” that it was the WWE or someone else on the Big Show’s end that prevented the match from materializing.
The Big Show told ESPN, however, that wasn’t the case at all, and suggested instead that it was Shaq’s body holding him back.
“He’s got to be what, 440, 450 pounds?” Big Show said. “He’s gotten pretty fat. Me on the other hand? I just weighed in this morning — 379 pounds.”
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“Maybe he doesn’t want to put on spandex and show the entire world that Shaquille O’Neal, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, looks like Jabba the Hutt,” Big Show continued. “It’s on him. He has to weigh these consequences in his own mind. Does he want the world to know how fat and out of shape he is? Or does he want to sit back and talk [crap] into a podcast?”
So far, it looks like Shaq is opting for the second choice, although this is all possibly an elaborate ploy to drum up hype for another “surprise” encounter between the two at WrestleMania 33 in Orlando on April 2.
O’Neal has a knack for creating controversy. Just recently, he angered the entire Golden State Warriors franchise by taking one too many digs at JaVale McGee. In response to a parody video O’Neal put together for his “Shaqtin’ the Fool” segment on TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” on which O’Neal is a host, the Warriors reportedly petitioned Turner Sports, TNT’s parent company, to cut back on the McGee jabs.
“I can tell you I had a preconceived notion of JaVale before he got here that turned out to be totally false,” Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr said last week. “And a lot of that was because of what goes on with Shaq’s ‘Shaqtin’ a Fool.’”
Hey, maybe if O’Neal won’t meet the Big Show in the ring, he could take on McGee in a free throw contest instead.
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