During a recent episode of his 83 Weeks podcast, former WCW Executive Vice President Eric Bischoff spoke about The Big Show parting ways from WCW to WWE during the infamous Monday Night Wars.
According to Bischoff, the departure from his company to Vince McMahon's didn't bother him because Big Show didn't seem to be giving it his all while performing as The Giant during that particular time in his career.
"I didn't mind when Paul Wight came to me and said WWE offered him $1 million a year for ten years," Bischoff said, "I was like dude, you need to take that. You need to go now, lemme give you a ride to the airport."
Bischoff continued, "That was then, Paul's obviously matured. Paul was very young at the time and was going through a lot of other stuff. Paul's clearly gone on to be somebody you know, noteworthy in the industry. But at that time, man, he just wasn't putting a lot into it."
Check out the complete 83 Weeks podcast with Eric Bischoff at Omny.fm.