10 Wrestlers Who Didn't Know When To Quit

8. Big Show/Paul Wight

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Big Show's career has paralleled Kane's in many ways.

Both of them debuted by entering cages, causing a face to beat a heel and go to the next pay-per-view as number one contender for the WWE Championship. It's no wonder they won tag team titles together twice.

The main difference between them is that Big Show had a career outside of WWE before he made his way over. Billed as The Giant in World Championship Wresting, Paul Wight was already a world champion when he headed north to Vince McMahon's company.

Show's career can be summed up with: lacklustre WWE Championship reign in 1999, turned babyface then heel then babyface about 50 times, was the first person to defeat Brock Lesnar, and continued to be around for another 15 years.

It sounds harsh, but Big Show is probably most famous for being around the place. He didn't have many high profile storylines; even his reigns between 2011 and 2023 with the World Heavyweight Championship came when it was nothing more than a glorified Intercontinental strap.

Much like Kane, fans turned on Big Show in a big way when he aligned himself with The Authority. There was only so much sad Show being forced to knock out babyfaces that people could stand. The peak was him and Kane slowly eliminating everybody from the Royal Rumble match in 2015.

He turned up every now and then for the next few years, then jumped ship to All Elite Wrestling, where he really needs to hang up his boots once and for all.

 
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