Paul Wight Knows He “Hasn’t Done S***” In AEW
Paul Wight knows he has a lot more that he wants to do in AEW and accepts that Tony Khan paid him “a sh*t ton” to wrestle in his company.
Paul Wight joined AEW in February 2021 and for most of his run in the company he has been part of the broadcast team for various shows. But the former WWE Champion wants more.
Appearing on Downunder The Ring while in Australia doing promotional work for AEW Grand Slam in Brisbane in 2025, Paul Wight revealed that he wants to get back in the ring:
God I hope so, because Tony Khan paid me a sh*t ton of money to get in the ring and so far I haven’t done sh*t.
Paul Wight then discussed Tony Khan making sure he could use the Captain Insano character that he portrayed in the Adam Sandler film, The Waterboy, and blames himself for never getting going in the ring for AEW:
Captain Insano was a pretty cool gift. Tony Khan worked it out, got the intellectual property rights for me. So we’ve been waiting to pull the trigger on that. Just to be honest, a lot of it’s been my fault. Having surgeries and stuff like that. So it’s about me getting in the gym, training, getting ready [to] where I feel comfortable. Because it’s basically a one-shot run.
You know, I can’t pull the trigger on this half-assed and go out and fail. When I pull the trigger on Captain Insano, it’s got to be 100 percent we run that until the wheels fall off and then we ride off into the sunset.
Paul Wight Wants To Go Out Like Sting
Wight added that Tony Khan has given him time to get himself prepared for the final run of his career and said he wants to go out in the same manner that Sting did in early 2024:
That’s why I really haven’t been doing a lot of things on AEW, because being the awesome boss that Tony Khan [is] he’s giving me the time to basically get my sh*t straight and get ready for it. Believe me, there’s an unbelievable amount of pressure on myself to get this done and get this in a way where the fans are appreciative of seeing me compete again. And not like an, ‘Oh, that’s sad. Shoot him, put him out of his misery.’ Like Old Yeller, take me out back and put me down.
I don’t want to get put down yet. I kind of want to go out like Sting did. Have a nice little run, have some great matches, work with some of this amazing young talent we have in AEW, and then slide out.
Paul Wight has competed six times in AEW with the last of those matches coming on the 15th of November 2023 edition of Dynamite when he teamed with Kota Ibsuhi, Chris Jericho, and Kenny Omega to defeat The Don Callis Family and Brian Cage.