The Big Show On Criticism Of Triple H For Marrying Up, Changes After Vince McMahon Purchased WCW

Recently, The Big Show appeared on Sports Talk 790AM in Miami, Florida. Among other things, ‘The Giant’ explained how the professional wrestling business has changed for the better. The Big Show talked about how inexperienced professional wrestlers used to get broken in and he talked about who his professional wrestling mentors have been. Also, he claimed that Triple H is probably the only person who can pull off being in his position.

According to The Big Show, he has witnessed drastic changes in the professional wrestling business over the duration of his successful and lengthy career.

“I have seen the change on how a business that was very wild west, cowboy, everybody out for themselves, from the promoter out for themselves, from the talent out for themselves, to now a system of building the athlete, building the long term athlete, and when the athletes are done, they aren’t a used up husk. Now there are guys that will have invested their money properly, have a better health, will have a better quality of life after their career ends.”

In the view of ‘The World’s Largest Athlete’, Vince McMahon has made the professional wrestling industry is a better place for performers now that WWE is the unrivalled juggernaut that it is today.

“Now, we have three [or] four orthopaedic doctors on staff. We have a performance center in Orlando [Florida], which is our own performance center for building our future talent, but also there’s a full rehabilitation center there for post-surgery athletes, for those that get injured, like I tore my labrum two years ago.”

The Big Show continued, “these young kids now coming in, they’re getting financial advice for building their own 401s. Everybody’s required to have health insurance. Yeah sure, we have POMCO insurance if we’re injured on the job, but he [has] made sure that everybody is insured, just like he would if he’s your kid. He would make sure that you’re set up. The concussion testing that we take, we have our ImPACT Testing. It’s done by Dr. [Joseph] Maroon in Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania]. Cardiovascular twice a year. We get Dr. [Bryan] Donohue. He’s also out of Pittsburgh and he’s one of the top cardiologists in the world, who comes and spends a couple of days with us and he does all the sonograms on our hearts and stuff like that.”

The Big Show claimed that the improvements in the treatment of talents came soon after WWE purchased WCW.

“That shift happened right after Vince bought out WCW. Right after he acquired the biggest rival, then he started to put his plan into motion of, ‘okay, I’ll make an investment into …

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