Former WWE employee Andrew Green is
suing Big Show and WWE over an alleged backstage incident at the 2013 Royal
Rumble pay-per-view according to Courthouse News Service.
In the report, Green claims another
WWE producer told him to get an interview with Show after his Rumble match to
be posted on the company’s website. Green says Show refused to do it until he
said it was at the request of Eric Pankowski. Big Show then began using
“profanely indecent language,” saying if he wanted an interview he would give
him one. The complaint continued:
“Big Show toward Green enraged,
shouting obscenities, and waving his fist in Green’s face. Big Show then
grabbed Green by the collar and throat, striking Green in the face and backing
him up against a trunk while declaring ‘You son of a bitch … Are you having fun
right now … Don’t even come up to me again … I don’t give a shit who you are’.”
Show requested a re-tape of the
interview saying he would just walk away. Triple H requested a third take but
Show said he didn’t think he would be able to do it because his emotions in the
first shoot had been real. A third interview was shot but Pankowski decided to
air the first interview.
Green claims he was unable to
continue working for WWE after following the incident because he was
uncomfortable working around Big Show and other wrestlers. He alleges in the
complaint that WWE had previously “suspended or terminated Big Show’s
employment because of his behavior, including his engagement in violent and/or
unlawful and/or improper activities outside of the wrestling venue.”
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