10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (March 22)

7. Big Show Almost Had A Cooking Show On WWE Network

Big Show Cooking
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Did you know: the original name for Total Divas was 'Heels On Wheels'. That title was even trademarked by WWE back in 2011 for use on the faux-reality show. Eventually, they scrapped it and went with the much catchier Total Divas name. We wonder what else was planned for the Network that didn't end up happening.

A Big Show cooking program. Seriously.

Ex-WWE writer Brian Mann told Post Wrestling's 'Rewind-A-SmackDown' podcast that Show was preparing to bring his version of MasterChef to the WWE airwaves before the idea was rejected. This sounds less like something from reality and more like a scene from the intro to PS2 game Crush Hour, but it's apparently true.

Show would've been WWE's own Gordon Ramsay, or maybe he'd have been more like John Torode and Gregg Wallace. Mann didn't go into too many details, presumably because talks didn't get too far along before WWE moved onto other things.

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