When Andrew Green SUED WWE over a segment by former WWE Champion
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Andrew Green is a name which does not found familiar but he made a huge controversy back in 2013 Andrew was a backstage interviewee and a WWE staff member who used to report some news on the WWE Network and his main work was to take interviews of some WWE superstars. He has worked for WWE for a long time but some things happened in 2013 which led him to resign.
Andrew Green was interviewing the Big Show at that time who was on a heel run and was doing one of the best storylines of his career. Andrew went to Big Show who was doing his workout and was interrupted by the WWE personnel in anger, he just made Andrew super uncomfortable as he holds Andre’s collar and even threatened him.
Big Show was not supposed to do this as this whole segment was unplanned but according to Big Show, this was not such a big deal. On the other hand, Andrew Green was very angry as he is just an interviewer, and this stuff is not supposed to happen with him and not from one of the biggest athletes present in WWE.
Andrew Green was so angry that he sued the company and Big Show and even sued for an undisclosable amount. He did not only sue for a single thing as he sued for a lot of things which are, NEGLIGENCE, INVASION OF PRIVACY, IMPLICATION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, COMMERCIAL APPROPRIATION OF HIS LIKENESS, UNJUST ENRICHMENT, and NEGLIGENT HIRING.
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Big Show’s career after Andrew Green’s incident
Big Show had a lot of backlash on him and his push was immediately canceled and all his storylines which were going to make him look good got canceled Big Show even had to pay all the money they were sued for. Big Show did get a push in WWE after 3 to 4 years and even left the company in 2021 during the budget cuts.
Big Show is currently not using his original name in the new competitive company AEW which is Paul White. Even though he is not doing one of the great storylines there but he is trying to do some new things in his career. He is already 50 years year old and is going to retire soon so let’s see what AEW has in their pocket for him.
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Anurag Bhardwaj
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