Paul Wight has revealed how WCW pulled off his infamous fall from Cobo Hall at WCW Halloween Havoc 1995.
After facing Hulk Hogan in a Monster Truck Sumo battle on the top of the building, Wight fell off the side of the building, leaving commentators speculating that he had died.
Speaking on a recent edition of the “Tim and Eli of Battleground” podcast, Wight recalled how the stunt was pulled off. He said,
“We did that that night on the roof of Cobo Hall, the monster truck battle. I had wrestling gear and wrestling boots under a firesuit. That’s all I had on. You had to wear a fire suit in those monster trucks because of the high test gasoline. What they don’t tell you is that your pant legs aren’t secured to the bottom of your boots, the whole open under compartment of those monster trucks is just air.
“It was like minus 20 degrees out. I was frozen inside of that monster truck suit, Hogan was freezing, I was freezing. We get to the battle on the wall. I fall off the wall, I drop about 30 feet into an airbag. In the time of my career then, ‘falling into an air bag, cool.’ If you tell me now, ‘You’re going to fall three stories into an airbag,’ ‘No, I’m not. You’re out of your mind.’ I had never fallen into an airbag before. What if I land on my head?”
Later in the show, Wight would return and defeat Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in a match that saw the infamous debut of the Yeti.
