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Paul Wight spent 22 years as The Big Show (Picture: WWE)

Wrestling legend Paul Wight has revealed his unbelievable diet during his WWE run as The Big Show.

The seven foot legend, who now works under his real name for rival company All Elite Wrestling (AEW), spent over two decades as the World’s Largest Athlete before moving in 2019 and he has opened up about his eating habits at his heaviest.

Wight, who was famously billed at 500lbs before losing around 130 to get himself in a healthier position amid a real fitness drive over the past few years.

Reflecting on his old diet, he told talkSPORT: ‘My calorie intake back in the day — but I understand it was a lot of empty bad calories — I just used to eat whatever I wanted in massive amounts.

‘I’d probably somewhere [between] 13,000 and 18,000 calories a day.’

And despite the athletic side of professional wrestling, Wight still counted McDonald’s as a big part of his daily intake.

The World’s Largest Athlete was eating over 13,000 calories every day (Picture: WWE)

He added: ‘You’d get Big Macs and I’d get three or four Big Macs and then I’d get fries and then I’d get a shake and I’d get apple pies and probably a fifth sandwich too. It was nothing. I’d go to Taco Bell and get like 20 tacos.’

However, his outlook has changed as he’s got older, and he is much more careful with his diet.

The 51-year-old star said: ‘Now, I kind of feel like I eat amounts. I eat have about ten ounces of protein, I have a small portion of carbs and some veg. I try to eat halfway decent.’

Wight, who has been preparing for an in-ring comeback in AEW after recovering from knee replacement surgery, previously opened up about how he had to spend almost three months in a wheelchair while he waited for the procedure.

Speaking earlier this year, he exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘Well, I spent 11 weeks in a wheelchair because I was waiting for them to build the implant for my knee because of my size.

Wight has been working on his fitness (Picture: AEW)

‘I had crushed all the bone in the knee, I was bleeding into my shin. So, I’ve got a good pain tolerance, but when I say I rode the tyre down to the rim, that’s exactly what I did.

‘But, luckily I still have all my ligaments in that knee, everything’s good there, it’s a nice, brand new titanium joint so it’s good for 35 years.’

The giant is working looking to get below 400lbs after previously getting down to 370, but the weight loss actually caused more harm due to his workout techniques.

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He revealed: ‘Right now, I’m about 35 or 40 lbs heavier than I want to be. So I’m weighing about 419 right now. I think at my leanest I was 370, but at that time too I had also cannibalised a lot of muscles just because I was doing so much cardio, I was biking 20, 25 miles a day.

‘I really wasn’t getting – these are things I’m finding out now, I wasn’t getting enough protein in. At the time, I was trying to eliminate a lot of mass, I went from 480 down to 370.

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