This is before COVID, but I wanted to get some food trucks, wrap them in Big Show Burger trucks and then at WrestleMania, with Fan Axxess, I was going to cook burgers and sell them to fans and help promote. You know, the whole gimmick.
It’s fun to interact with the fans. It’s fun TV. ‘Here’s the Big Show Burger’, but for whatever reason, the people that I were dealing with it — it’s not one of those things where I could have gone to Vince and been like, ‘Hey, what the hell?’ But it just turned me off so bad and put things in real perspective.
I’ve been playing The Big Show for 20 years, but as far as they’re concerned, anybody could play the Big Show not just Paul Wight because they look at it like it’s a Marvel character or a Disney character, and they own that intellectual property, and then I’m thinking about the prices they were hitting me with to do the Big Show Burger, you know, and I know I had done Honeycomb and I’ve done some other things over the years. They weren’t even remotely close to that kind of payoff.
I see the writing on the wall. So the writing on the wall was either A, we don’t want you to do this. We don’t want you to be successful, or you know what, we see a chance here to to make it a cash grab.
I just don’t understand, and the attitude was very blasé of, well, this is what it is, like they’re doing me a favor. And there’s so many instances over the years you have to look at and say that’s okay because that’s business. I get it, and the problem was is I put personal feelings and family and all that stuff that they say, ‘oh, you’re family and all that.’ And when it comes down to the nuts and bolts, it’s family when it suits them, but when it doesn’t suit them, it’s business.
So in all actuality, it’s just business all the way around, and it’s not a negative thing. Look, I know people are probably going to think I’m bi**hing, and I’m really not.
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