Paul Wight has gone through a lot in order to get back into the ring for All Elite Wrestling in 2023.
All Elite Wrestling’s Paul Wight recently sat down with Alistair McGeorge of METRO to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about his recent knee replacement surgery, Wight revealed that he had initially crushed all of the bone in his knee, which was causing him to bleed into his shin, and he had to spend almost three months in a wheelchair waiting for the doctors to build an implant for his knee because of how big he is.
“Well, I spent 11 weeks in a wheelchair because I was waiting for them to build the implant for my knee because of my size. I had crushed all the bone in the knee, I was bleeding into my shin. So, I’ve got a good pain tolerance, but when I say I rode the tire down to the rim, that’s exactly what I did,” Paul Wight said. “But, luckily I still have all my ligaments in that knee, everything’s good there, it’s a nice, brand new titanium joint so it’s good for 35 years. So, I can parachute if I want to – not that I’ll ever jump out of an airplane, we all saw the movie Operation Dumbo Drop, I don’t think that’s me, we’re good!”
Wight was introduced to Mike O’Hearn by Billy Gunn in order to help train him and prepare him for an in-ring comeback with All Elite Wrestling.
“When you have injuries, you have a lot of things, a lot of muscles that turn off, your nervous system changes, so there were a lot of things that I needed help with. Mike’s just been fantastic,” Paul Wight said. “Billy Gunn’s been helping me on the road. Michael helps me with nutrition and workout advice and stuff like that. We’ve changed a lot of things to adapt to someone my size and my age. There’s been incredible results, and I’m super happy about it.”
The former WWE Superstar is working hard to get back to a weight he’d feel comfortable stepping back into the ring with. Wight said he currently weighs around 419 and wants to be 35 to 40 pounds lighter than that.
“Right now, I’m about 35 or 40 lbs heavier than I want to be. So I’m weighing about 419 right now. I think at my leanest I was 370, but at that time too I had also cannibalized a lot of muscles just because I was doing so much cardio, I was biking 20, 25 miles a day,” Paul Wight said. “I really wasn’t getting – these are things I’m finding out now, I wasn’t getting enough protein in. At the time, I was trying to eliminate a lot of mass, I went from 480 down to 370. So this go round, I’m trying to eat, in a way, on a more timed schedule. I literally have a meal or shake every three hours. The nutrition is on point and I’m able to build muscle.”
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