Bruce Prichard’s “Something To Wrestle With” podcast provides many backstage stories that are left unrevealed to wrestling fans. During a particular portion of the most recent episode of his podcast, Prichard went over Vince McMahon being worried about The Big Show at one point in time because Big Show was not taking care of himself.
Check out this highlight from that particular portion of the podcast:
Prichard: “So that was the same kind of thing going on here with Big Show. He would go and get; send out for 4 Big Macs, forty pieces of chicken McNuggets, a milk shake and he just wasn’t taking good care of himself. He wasn’t doing it and we felt the only way Big Show was going to take us seriously is if we sent him back to down to OVW. Go down there and get your ass in shape and by getting your ass in shape, it’s not just losing weight but get in ring shape. Be able to go, get your cardio better and when you’re right we’ll bring ya back, but Vince had just had it and it wasn’t one match, one night or anything like that. It was a culmination of Show not being able to perform at the level we were looking at him to perform at.”