Big Show Comes Clean About Brock Lesnar Ring Break, Explains Why He Kept Kayfabe For So Long

Big Show has been a WWE mainstay for 16 years, resulting in several ring crushing moments with the likes of The Undertaker, Mark Henry, and most famously Brock Lesnar. While most assumed that the situations were rigged, Big Show outright admitted it for the first time last week.

Show said that he's kayfabed the whole situation for years, but finally came clean on last week's episode of Talk is Jericho.

"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," Show said.

Show said that for years he's tried to keep the illusion that it was real, and played it up in all of is interviews. He pointed out that he wanted to suspend disbelief of the fans with the angle.

"This is the first time I've admitted the truth that that was a rigged angle," Show explained. "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"

You can listen to the full podcast, which is a great listen, at this link.

damien demento contributed to this article.