Paul Randall Wight, Jr. is a former male high school basketball player and current professional wrestler using the ring name "The Big Show," due to his rather enormous size: 7-foot-4, 500 lbs.
Wight suffers from gigantism but successful surgery in the early 1990s on his pituitary gland halted the progress of this condition. By the age of twelve, Wight was 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) tall, weighed 220 lb (100 kg), and had chest hair. Wight played basketball and football in high school at Wyman King Academy in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina. He was a standout center for the basketball team and a tight end for the football team.
In 1991, as a member of the Wichita State University basketball team at age nineteen, Wight was listed at 6 ft 11 in (211 cm). While at Wichita State, Wight played basketball, and was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
