WWE Star Sued For Painfully Real Assault On Co-Worker
World Wrestling Entertainment's star wrestlers are often said to be "faking" fights. But now WWE producer Andrew Green has filed alawsuit against one of the biggest wrestlers, Big Show (whose real name is Paul Donald Wight Jr, ) for a chokehold that Green says was painfully real. Green claims that Big Show, pictured right, a five-time wrestling champion who weighs 440 pounds, grabbed Green by the "collar and throat" during an expletive-laden post-match video interview.According to the lawsuit, first reported by the Courthouse News Service, producer Green asked Big Show for an interview for the WWE website after a Jan. 27th match, telling him that his boss wanted it. Big Show allegedly was hostile and quickly turned violent. While "shouting obscenities, and waving his fist," Big Show grabbed Green by his throat and punched him in the face, the suit says. "You son of a b***h ... Are you having fun right now. ... Don't even come up to me again. ... I don't give a s**t who you are,' " the suit claims the wrestler yelled.
Green acknowledges in the lawsuit that the WWE "required [Wight] to act in a violent, erratic and threatening manner both inside and outside of the wrestling ring." But Green says in the suit that he's now suffering from "a ton of anxiety." He has stopped showing up for work. His lawsuit calls for unspecified damages and named the WWE as a co-defendant. (In speaking to AOL Jobs, the WWE said it does not comment on pending legal matters.)
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