10 Nastiest Backstage Incidents In Wrestling History

10. Great Khali vs. Big Show

Scuttlebutt (like gossip with an endocrine condition) has it that jealousy was the prime motivator in causing friction between Dalip €˜Great Khali€™ Singh Rana and Paul €˜Big Show€™ Wight. Despite the WWE€™s reputation as €˜the land of the giants€™, Wight was the only genuine pituitary giant to join their roster since the legendary Andre Roussimoff, and for some time had been unofficially considered to be the heir to Andre€™s legacy in US wrestling €“ so much so that he€™d originally been billed as his son. Undertaker, Kane, Kurrgan, Kevin Nash €“ they were damn tall, and they were seriously built, but none had the sheer scale of a true giant. And then, in 2006, the company signed Singh. Wight had undertaken surgery on his pituitary gland in the early nineties, before he joined WCW, and the growth caused by his acromegaly had stopped in his early twenties. Singh, only a few months younger than Wight, would not have the same surgery until 2012. Roughly the same height at just over seven foot tall, the difference between the two was significant. Singh was massively built, with the heavy, deformed and intimidating features characteristic of the true pituitary giant, and as a former powerlifter, was heavily muscled. Wight was a lazy junk food addict of significant girth with perfectly normal facial features. Wight looked like an ordinary large but fat man, scaled up in size: Singh resembled a creature of classical myth and legend. Wight, from all reports insecure about his spot given the new monster heel on the block, had had issues with Singh from day one, including a frequent complaint that Singh was using moves that should be specific to his own €˜giant€™ character, given Wight€™s seniority in the company. Which moves these were remain a matter for conjecture, as despite Singh€™s impressive look he was extraordinarily slow and limited in the ring, and could barely do anything at all, certainly nothing convincingly. By comparison with Singh, the accomplished veteran Wight looked like Dean Malenko. Whatever the case, matters came to a head on 5th September 2009 at a house show in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in the locker room after their six-man tag match. Arguing for several minutes, the Big Show threw the first punch: witnesses say that Khali blocked it in exactly the same manner as he would have in the ring, and then the two began grappling for real. At that point, Wight slipped on someone€™s bag, and fell to the floor €“ Singh clambered on top of him and continued the assault, remaining in control until their fellow wrestlers, including the Undertaker, finally managed to break the fight up. The two belligerent behemoths were kept apart for the remainder of the tour. Wrestlers being the biggest gossips on God€™s green earth (as the old saying goes, €œtelephone, telegraph, tell a wrestler€), the seismic episode was all anyone was talking about the following Monday night at the RAW taping in Chicago. The Big Show was considered to be entirely to blame for the clash of the titans.