Paul Wight Wants To Wrestle Again, Praises Powerhouse Hobbs

In an interview with Fightful, Paul Wight said that he wants to get back in the ring and is hoping Tony Khan will book him soon. Here are highlights:

On returning to the ring in AEW: “God, I hope so ‘cause Tony Khan paid me a shit ton of money to get in the ring, and so far I haven’t done shit.”

On getting his knee replaced after getting slammed on a car: “I did, I did. Then right after that, I went and got my knee replaced. Thanks, Will Hobbs.”

On Powerhouse Hobbs: “Will Hobbs is amazing. I have nothing but nice things to say about Will. One, he looks like an absolute monster. Two, he is one of the nicest, humble human beings and I’ve met a lot of people in this business. Will Hobbs is top three most humble, nice people I’ve ever met. When you talk to Will Hobbs and you give him advice from your perspective. ‘Cause I tell talent all the time, ‘You can take in information, process it. It may work for you, it may not, but listen to it.’ You give Will Hobbs advice on something, ‘Hey, man, in my opinion, this, this, and this,’ he’ll go out and try it and he’ll change it and he’ll make a change immediately. Sometimes you tell talent things and they’re not looking for information, some talent. They’re looking for atta-boy and a pat on the back. I don’t do atta-boys, I don’t pat you on the back. Most everybody that knows me, when they come to me about business, I’m just as brutal and hard to them as Undertaker was to me when I started. ‘Cause I didn’t get pays on the back from Undertaker. “‘Taker used to tell me all the time, ‘Take three weeks off and quit the business.’ ‘Cause I went out for an atta-boy once. I was like, ‘Hey, man, I just see anything I can improve on?’ That they’re typical young guy bullshit. He goes, ‘Yeah, I know something you can do. You can take three weeks off and quit the business.’ I was like, ‘Okay, note to self, don’t bother him with silly stuff like that.’ I think it’s important to give a talent and honest feed. That doesn’t mean you have to tear him down and point out everything they do wrong. ‘Cause if you’ve been in this business long enough, you can expose stuff in your own work and everybody else’s work after it happened. It’s giving them the situations to understand why something happens and to make a change to better their character. So I always appreciate Will Hobbs ‘cause Will Hobbs thinks about things and then comes to me with something. On a few occasions [he’s] come to me and we’ve had good conversations and I’ve seen him go out and make changes. It’s usually just little character stuff, because let’s be honest, I don’t know a wrist lock from a fucking headlock. I’m not a Bryan Danielson or somebody like that that’s gonna really know. Jon Moxley, believe it or not, who’s an incredible technical wrestler. That’s not my M.O., that’s not my gift to life. But knowing your character, I do understand knowing the character, and that I can help with.”