Big Show Finally Admits His Infamous Spot with Brock Lesnar was Staged

In a recent edition of “Talk is Jericho” with former WWE Champion Chris Jericho, former WWE Champion Big Show finally admits his infamous spot with Brock Lesnar was staged, and they did not actually break the ring with a Superplex. For years all parties involved have claimed that Lesnar and Show broke the ring with the spot, and it has (at least for the last four years) been labeled one of the most memorable “Holy Sh*t” moments in WWE history.

Big Show has claimed in almost 100 interviews that the spot that took place during the main event of the June 12, 2003 edition of “Smackdown” was a shoot, meaning that it actually happened the way it appeared, and the ring was not rigged to collapse under the weight of Lesnar and himself. However, he changes his story for the first time in 12 years while talking with Jericho, saying,

“We did a spot right before we broke the ring where we’re both down and they shoot a close up of both of us selling. In that time, Ellis (Edwards, WWE Stunt Coordinator) had airbags under the ring. So they had lifted the ring a couple inches. When I’m standing on that top corner, that ring is like standing on marbles.

Because it’s moving. Of course now I’ve got my fat ass up in the air, 500 pounds on a not very stable surface. So then the ring broke. You don’t know how the stunt is going to look. It was so perfectly timed the way we did it and Ellis did a great job of setting up. That thing collapsed and everybody they bought it so long.

This is the first time I’ve admitted the truth that that was a rigged angle. On hundreds of interviews, I have lied right through my teeth and said it’s a shoot. But if you get a chance to suspend people’s reality just for an instant, for a second, it’s good for them”

For a almost eight years, WWE tried to minimize the impact of the spot, not really mentioning it much due to the ill feelings towards Lesnar and his WWE departure. WWE even tried to recreate the magic of the spot, using the same techniques as before, with Show and Mark Henry in 2011 at WWE “Vengeance.”

You can listen to the entire interview here.

Editor’s Note:

This was so notable Sports Illustrated picked it up.