Why did Paul Heyman always push the Big Show when he had a position in booking? A 6'10", Vince McMahon approved look monster/spectacle that was all style over substance, who already had everything handed to him in any company he worked in from day one, is the antithesis to everything Paul was doing in ECWYou can't get any more WWE-like than Paul Wight
>>21462882Have you considered everyone just likes Paul Wight and wants to work with him? He's a cool guy.WCW made him famous. TNA wanted to hire him when he was available in 2007. AEW actually did hire him, even though he's mainly a commentator there.
>>21462882Heyman is really good at short-term booking. The most tried-and-trusted short-term booking move in the history of wrestling has always been "set up monster heel, have him beat two/three of your B+ faces, then have your top face conquer him". This of course doesn't work long term because you then have a midcard littered with fallen giants, but it does work for 6/9 months.
>>21462882Look at himObserve the big showContemplate on his natureAnd now ask yourselfWhy wouldnt you push big show ?
>>21462882because Brock took off and he needed another big guy
>>21462882>Implying Paul wouldn't snatch Giant from WCW if he could in the 90sECW fans were never strictly into manlets and small guys, Sid was over as fuck when he went to ECW, the Steiners were in ECW, Ron Simmons did a stint in ECW, the Pitbulls were roidmonkeys, and Bam Bam Bigelow was in ECWI don't get this revisionist narrative that ECW was all about smaller guys
>>21462910that's why it's really hard to book giants. they seem so rare and you'd think they'd be a big get for a company, but you can't really cool them off. they have to be kept reasonably dominant. paul couldn't figure out what to do with omos because he doesn't think he's good enough or entertaining enough to put over most of the roster and that's kind of what has to happen or else wrestling looks too fake.
Because BEEG was always based.
Nice guy. Can talk. Can act. Great in the ring. Give him a solid enough win record and anyone who beats him gets a big rub.
>>21462882Because Paul's smart enough to realize that some guys get instantly over on the mere visual of their appearance and Beeg is a borderline 1 of 1 athlete who makes an impression on an audience instantlyYou can't manufacture that
Watch ECW. 911, Sid, to a less extent big dick the one eyed monster duddley. Paul loves his giants.
>>21462882Well....
>>21464166Only the most mark of mark bookers doesn't like having giants in their promotion.
>>21462910>>21464111The best way to handle it is to give them like one loss every six months, then rotate them out for like six months. Make them part time, make them an attraction, but they always need to be a threat. You can't turn a giant into a fucking tag guy and have him remain a main event threat, which is his most valuable characteristic to you as a booker considering challengers for your top guy are the hardest thing for you to find.
>>21464316So...Gabe Sapolsky? Adam Pearce? Delirious?
Weelllllllllllllllllllll
>>21464784Wasn't Michael Elgin world champion in ROH under Delirious?
>>21462882>that was all style over substanceYoung Show could work. It was when he got fatter and older in late 00s WWE and beyond that he sucked.
>>21464961The reason he got fat and lazy is because he debuted super strong in WWE and then Vince jobbed him out and for some reason tried to turn a 7' giant that everyone thought was shoot Andre's son into a fucking midcarder
>>21464784Morashima was a giant compared to the rest of the roster.
>>21464784Morishima, Joe, and Elgin were world champions in ROH
>>21465674>>21465392Guys like that were the exception and not the rule with ROH
>>21464784ROH literally was built on giving the small guys a chance sorry it's not to your liking
>>21465674"Big" Mike Elgin
>>21466643My bad, I forgot about all those promotions where everyone is the biggest guy on the roster.
>>21467050Yet their best years were 2005 and 2006 when they were actively booking more heavyweights.
If I may have this volley, good sir, we must PUSH The Big Show!
>>21467050PWG was too, and ironically things were dimes when they had Cobb, Walter, and Keith Lee were feuding Again, only the markiest mark ever would actively discourage heavyweight wrestlers from being in their company
AEW is dropping the ball, he could have a big run there.
>>21465674Michael Elgin wasn't even 6 ft>>21463847Literally it's why indy guys can cope all they want but mainstream audiences don't take sub-200 manlets seriously unless you're like a boxer or MMA fighter but those are real sports with real weight divisionsIndy manlets will still cope but they deep down know unless they do something they'll be relegated to bingo halls
>>21467191>only the markiest mark ever would actively discourage heavyweight wrestlers from being in their companyI'd say Tony Khan but even he has heavyweights on his roster, albeit it seems like booking them somehow escapes Tony
>>21465078so he got fat and lazy because everything stopped being handed to him?
>>21467242This, in boxing if you wanna move up the divisions you have to train and gain the weight to qualify For example a middleweight who wants to move up to the light heavyweight division has to gain 15 - 20 lbs of extra weight and muscle Indy wrestlers really would benefit from getting a clue
>>21462882he's a jew carny. he knows freak show shit always draws
>>21462882Because Big Show threatened to live in Heyman's walls if he didn't push him.
>>21467366>he's a jew carnyBit redundant to call him a carny twice isn't it?
>>21467242The reason why it seems like the indies are the refuge of the small guys is because the wrestling schools don't scout gyms anymore, they take any schlub who walks in, there's no standards anymore
>>21467380Huge pop!
>>21467600>because the wrestling schools don't scout gyms anymore,Well why don't you start a wrestling school and enroll only hosses?
>>21462882Because wrestling will always be an aesthetic and freak show driven business, and no amount of high spots and workrate will replace that
