Paul Wight confirms that he once was able to perform a moonsault.
Paul Wight was always seen as the next evolution of Andre the Giant, even being booked as his son very early in his career. As an evolution of what a giant performer can do, Paul Wight was once able to perform spectacular top rope moves including a missile dropkick and now, he's confirming that he was once able to do a moonsault.
Speaking to Shakiel Mahjouri for ET Canada, Paul Wight recalled the day he broke out a moonsault in Japan.
“Totally true,” he said. “It’s probably gone by now. That was done probably with VHS tape it was so long ago that hung around the training room… I had athleticism that was crazy for someone of my size in the game. I could do kip-ups, I could do dropkicks, dropkicks off the top. I could do a moonsault. Believe it or not, the way the industry was then — because it was still transitioning — nobody really knew what to do with me because I was unlike anything anyone had seen before."
“There were rumors of me doing it in Japan," Wight continued. "It wasn’t in a match. It was screwing around the afternoon. Then I was told immediately not to do it ever again if I wanted to continue working world. I was thinking, ‘Japan is a great place to break it out. Here we go.’ It was shut down immediately by those that had the creative control.”
Paul Wight occasionally wrestles now for All Elite Wrestling and while he might not break out a moonsault he is hoping to bring back the Captain Insano character from Waterboy. Learn more here.
