We have not seen Big Show around WWE programming until this week’s Raw. It had been almost two years that he had featured in a storyline on WWE TV.
Growing age has been the main reason why WWE stopped using the veteran superstar. However, we’d like to inform you that The Giant was never confirmed of retirement in the first place. That brings to the interesting statistics where an all-time record was broken, recently.
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As noted by wwfoldschool.com, 2019 is the very first year since 2007 where The Big Show didn’t compete in a single match in WWE.
The final PPV match of the former world champion took place at SummerSlam 2017 where he lost to Big Cass. It was in the same year that his final singles contest happened in the WWE against Braun Strowman.
This final singles match for him (before this week) emanated from WWE Monday Night RAW in September 2017, where he lost to the Monster among Men in a Steel Cage match.
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Later, on SmackDown in November 2018, Big Show teamed up with Sheamus & Cesaro to lose to The New Day in a Thanksgiving Feast Fight. It was one of the rarest occasions that The Giant returned as a heel to make just a few appearances and then disappear from TV, again.
Since then, WWE has not used him as an in-ring talent and hence he missed the entire year of 2019 to break his own record. Big Show is also a rare talent who competed in three decades in pro-wrestling starting from the 90s.
WWF Veteran and current AEW wrestler Dustin Rhodes aka Goldust is the highest achiever in this context who set a huge milestone in 2020.
He faced Sammy Guevara on this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite to come up short. But with this match, Dustin has now competed in 5 different decades – the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s.
AEW’s own Jim Ross has recently noted how much Vince McMahon wanted Big Show to perform in the WWE back in the 90s. Here are his comments from the latest edition of “Grilling Jr” podcast,
“Very hot. Shane was probably hotter. Shane, when I started talking to Paul Wight, aka The Big Show, or The Giant, creatively named … Shane asked me every day how things were going.
And I said, ‘Shane, I told you the other day I’m gonna meet him on Friday. Today’s Wednesday. Things are going exactly the same as the last time you asked me yesterday afternoon. So everybody was motivated to get him.”
