# @wrestlingnewsco on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-04-14T02:59:05.000+00:00
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Paul Wight appeared on chrisvanvliet's Insight podcast and told a story about the time Hulk Hogan called his hotel room in Japan after Wight threw a dropkick off the top rope during a tour.

Wight was telling Van Vliet about how, early in his career, veterans had a specific idea of how a seven foot tall wrestler was supposed to move in the ring, and the blueprint most of them wanted to force on him was Andre the Giant. The Hogan call came during one of those early tours.

Wight: "I had Hogan call me in Japan. I threw a dropkick in Japan off the top rope and hit Yasuda with it. And I got to my room, there was a blinking light, and the message says, please call Mr. Bollea when you get to your room. Oh, hell, they didn't even hulk it. It's Mr. Bollea. Sh*t, I'm in trouble."

"So I called Terry collect, Japan, back then. Goes, 'brother, did you just do a dropkick off the top rope in Japan?' I went, 'Yeah, I did.' He just, 'brother, you ever do that again, I'll never work with you.' Click."

Wight said the call was part of a broader problem he ran into early in his career where older veterans wanted him to be a version of Andre, Kane, or The Undertaker rather than letting him find his own style. "There were guys that they wanted Andre. I wasn't Andre. I wasn't Kane or Taker either. So I wasn't them either. I was kind of a weird hybrid."

Wight also mentioned that Vince McMahon once fined him $500 for jumping over the top rope in WWE, telling him that was not how giants move.

Hogan came up a second time when Wight revealed that he landed the Captain Insano role in The Waterboy by doing a straight Hogan impression in his audition. Wight said he almost didn't read for the part because he had heard Jim Duggan was going in for it. When the casting director asked him to read anyway, he walked in with no preparation.

"I just took the verbiage and did Hogan, ripped him off, and then she said, 'oh my God, that's what we're looking for. That's it. Congratulations, you're Captain Insano.'"

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