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BIG SHOW DISCUSSES WEIGHT LOSS, BEING RIBBED BY HULK HOGAN, ROCK'S HOLLYWOOD SUCCESS AND MORE ON CONAN

By Mike Johnson on 2017-03-23 09:16:00

The Big Show appeared on Conan on TBS to promote Wrestlemania 33 with Conan O'Brien on 3/22.

When Show sat down, Conan looked at him and said, "Good God!"  He said that Show is a friend to their show but every time he sees him in person, Conan is in awe of his size and his beauty.  Conan pointed out the weight loss and asked Show how much he has lost.  Show said that he's lost 90 lbs. over the last year.  Show said that he wanted to make a change in his look and his career.  He's 373 lbs. right now.

Conan said that he's heard Show has a six pack now.  Show joked he never should have posted that photo, which they showed.  He said it's a weird process because you burn calories and melt fat but it's never where you want it to be.  He said that was a good night with good lightning so he put the photo out there and now the pressure was really on.

Conan noted that at 23, Show beat Hulk Hogan to win the WCW World title.  Show said that their business is very "apprentice-journeyman master" sort of relationship.  He said that when you are younger, you do a lot of what the other talents tell you to do in the industry.  He said that Hogan discovered him and put him on his path.  When he beat Hogan, Hogan told him he was the champ and to wear the belt through the airport.  Show thinks, "I just beat Hogan, damn right I am wearing this thing."  He goes through the airport wearing it and all the old wrestlers are telling him, "Yeah champ!" Show says his head is so big it can't fit in the airport.  Show takes the belt off and goes through the metal detector and puts it back on.    He said Sting come up to him. Conan asked, "The singer?"  Show responds, "No.  Steve Borden.  The wrestler."  Conan quips this would be a better story if it was the singer.  Sting come up to him and asks, "What are you doing?  Take it off.  You look like an idiot."  Show then realized they were hazing him into doing something stupid and joked that he's much smarter now.

Conan brought up how well The Rock is doing in Hollywood.   Show said that back in the day, Rock would go to sing karaoke while everyone else in the locker room was going drinking and now he's making movies and making millions of dollars and the rest of them are still wearing spandex for a living.  Show jokingly asked, "Who's the smart one?"   Conan asked if Rock changed things for pro wrestlers.  Show said that Rock has transcended and changed things, as so did Batista.  He said 20 years ago, if he was a wrestler, it would be dismissed but now, Rock's work has allowed doors to open where Show can have serious meetings with studios about projects.  

Conan pushed that Wrestlemania 33 would air on the WWE Network.  No talk of Shaq or what Show would be doing at the PPV.

 

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