Big Show recently spoke with Digital Spy in the UK to promote Sunday’s SummerSlam pay-per-view event. Down below are the highlights.
On his longevity in the main event scene and WWE fans taking Big Show for granted:
“I think so – I think the uniqueness and the special things that I bring to WWE is sometimes a little bit downplayed because you see me every week. I think that’s one of the things that will happen to me eventually. I’m going to start not being on our programming as much, not being on TV every week. Hopefully when I do get a chance to come back, I’ll be able to have a little bit more impact and a little bit more fun. That’s part of what I should have been doing my whole career anyway. I think quite frankly I have been on TV too much, but part of it is necessity and part of it’s ability. I’m able to work, I am able to get other talent over. I am able to carry storylines. When you’re good at what you do you’re going to work. That’s a good thing. But from the standpoint of being an attraction, sometimes too much isn’t good. So it’s a difficult fine line. I’ve had a great career with it and been very happy, I’m not complaining, but I think as I’m getting older – I’m 43 now – I don’t wanna be on the road five days a week anymore. I really don’t. It’s one of those kind of things. I have time left on my contract here and I’ll work that out, and when that contract ends I’ll always be a part of WWE as long as they want me, but I think I’ll go into more of a limited role. Who knows? Maybe even go into commentating or something like that. Maybe I could do pay-per-view commentating or something – special event commentating. I’ve only got three moves! I’ve only had three moves for 20 years so I don’t think I can do much more.”
On Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker at the SummerSlam:
“You’ve got Lesnar – he’s such a monster right now. He’s coming off the stuff he did in MMA in the UFC and how well he did there, and the dominant Superstar he was before he left. Since he came back they’ve done a really good job of making Lesnar everything that he is.
“He is a tremendous athlete, a guy that is strong, fast and powerful, and knows how to wrestle, and has a mean streak. They’ve been able to capitalise on it and the biggest thing is trying to find opponents for Lesnar that are credible. Let’s face it, you can’t put Brock in the ring with just anybody. It’s got to be somebody credible or else everybody’s going to know right away that it’s just not going to work.
“The fact that Lesnar broke The Streak, who is the only guy that should have, or could have ever broken The Streak – personally I would never have liked to see The Streak broken ever – but all good things come to an end. The Streak got broken.
“So now you have Undertaker who’s making his comeback. I think Undertaker’s going to be hopefully a lot more involved, and doing a lot more with us. So this should be exciting to see what those two guys pull out at SummerSlam.
“You’ve got Undertaker who’s without a doubt the greatest big man of all time, versus Lesnar who’s without a doubt one of the best shooters of all time. So it’s going to be really interesting for me as a fan, as a friend of both of them to see what kind of match they put on at SummerSlam. It should be absolutely amazing.”
You can check out the full interview by going here.
