The Big Show Recalls Being Caught Smoking In Vince McMahon’s Office

During a recent edition of “WWE Table For 3”, The Big Show spoke about how working with Steve Austin helped him learn to be a giant. Here are the highlights…

On Working With Steve Austin: “Steve used to yell at me all the time. I remember I got stuck with Steve on a Europe tour. He’s the man [and] every night, beats the crap out of me for seven minutes. Bam! Stunner! [He] drinks beer and salutes the crowd for another 10 [minutes]. I go to the back and Fit [Finlay]’s looking at me like, ‘why do you let him do that to you?’ I’m like, ‘well, he’s Steve Austin. What am I supposed to do?’ He says, ‘be a giant!’ and he walks off. ‘Be a giant,’ that’s insightful. Very helpful. Thank you very much. What does ‘be a giant’ mean? So every night, Steve’s beating the crap out of me and we get to London. I worked Steve that night. Something happened and I knocked Steve to the floor. I got out [of the ring]. I throw him back in. Well, I threw him in by his trunks. He had one pair of trunks. He rinsed them out every night. They’re his lucky trunks. He had one pair of trunks. We’ll I hauled them up his ass and he got mad, so I got in the ring and he’s [punching me] three times on the chin hard has hell. He goes, ‘off the tights you son of a b—h!’ I got mad, so I grabbed him by the face and picked him up, and ran him across the ring and bent him over the turnbuckle. And I was like, ‘hey, you motherf–ker!’ I got pretty [heated] and he goes, ‘here you go, kid. Way to fire up.’ But I learned something that night. And I finally got the epiphany of who you are because I am a giant. That’s when it all clicked that night.”

On Getting Caught Smoking in Vince McMahon’s Office: “[St.] Valentine’s Day Massacre, right? We’re in Memphis [Tennessee]. So I’m sitting there with Jack Lanza and Pat, first day. I had a t-shirt with a pocket and my Marlboro Lights were in it. Jack goes, ‘oh, you smoke?’ Pat goes, ‘oh, you smoke!’ I’m like, ‘yeah, oh yeah.’ I said, ‘have a cigarette.’ Yeah, so they light up and I’m just sitting there, puffing away, thinking, and we’re talking. And Lanza’s talking to me and Pat takes a couple of puffs, goes over to the toilet and flushes it, sits down. Pat starts talking to me. Jack takes a couple of puffs, goes over to the toilet, throws it in the water, and flushes it. I’m puffing away and Vince walks in a whole room full of smoke [and] I’m the only one smoking. I didn’t want to be a stooge and tell on them because I’m not a stooge. I went, ‘I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t know.’ At the time, I’m like, ‘I’m not going to rat my buddies out.’ And then, later, I was like, ‘them sons of b—–s set me up!’”

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