10 Absolute WORST Wrestling Moments Of 2023
5. Paul Wight Completes A Weird Quartet
The former Big Show became a totem for AEW's creative decline in November 2023 when he appeared on the stage of a Dynamite and stood still as Kyle Fletcher ran into his "WMD" fist.
Wight's hire in 2021 was a weird one, but even then he was used as the man to talk about a man - a random appearance on the Revolution go-home edition of Dynamite was was used to tee up Christian Cage's surprise debut. Two years later, and he was the surprise.
As the fourth man joining Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho and Kota Ibushi against the Don Callis family, Wight was seen an aged veteran too far. Just a week after Ric Flair's debut with the group (and 24 hours before his official signing), the organisation felt as far away from its initial mission statement as it had ever been. Wight was not the only symbol of it, but he was fittingly the biggest.