Review for WWE The Big Show: A Giant's World

The Big Show (Paul Wight) is the largest athlete in the world and the modern era's Andre the Giant. However, unlike Andre who really only had his size as his main selling point, Big Show is possibly one of the best wrestlers (at his size) ever. This DVD features a documentary and two disks worth of matches to prove this.
The documentary is only an hour long, which is a shame, as it does seem to slip over huge chunks of his career. It spends most of its time talking about his childhood, growing up (literally) and his struggles with Acromegaly which he was able to stop thanks to an operation. It shows his entrance into WCW, his huge sudden rise to main event status and champion and then his defection to the WWE. As I say, his time in WCW was discussed far too quickly and although they mention that he was miserable it's never really explained why other than he was no longer in the main event and seemed to be overshadowed by Hogan and the nWo, but then everyone in WCW at the time could have said the same thing.
Entering WWE, he was again given quite a big push against main eventers like Stone Cold, Undertaker and Mankind, but even he admitted that he wasn't as good as them. Despite winning the title in his first year in WWE he found himself for various reasons (though it's never explicitly stated what they were) in OVW for a tune up. OVW was WWE's old training and development ground and this part of the documentary was fascinating to see him in perform in front of literally a dozen or so people instead of the thousands who would attend a WWE event. Sadly, they don't include any of his matches from this time as it would have been interesting to see. His return is documented with feuds against Brock Lesnar and his stint in ECW and his high profile feud against boxer Floyd Mayweather.
The documentary is excellent, just far too short and I think that maybe with an extra hour of stories and interviews, especially his time in WCW. Instead there are a variety of extras which include some extra interviews and some sections with Show dressing up as The BigFather amongst others and him totally destroying Torrie Wilson's car which is utterly terrifying.
Of the twenty-two matches on the two disks, five are from WCW and include the horrific and I mean HORRIFIC appearance at Halloween Havoc 1995. His matches against Flair, Sting and Luger are a little better, but not by much. Of the matches from the first disk the ones I would recommend to watch is the Raw match against The Undertaker which is probably his biggest OMG moment. His Triple Threat against Rock and Triple H at Survivor Series is pretty good as is his match against Brock Lesnar. However, it is his Backlash match against Rey Mysterio that really needs to be seen to be believed.
The second disk is a mix of great tag matches with Show teaming with Kane, Miz and Chris Jericho, his time in ECW is covered with an insane match against Sabu and of course they cover his feud with Floyd Mayweather. The other matches are a little hit and miss.
The Big Show is a true giant of the WWE, his near two decades in the business have been a mixture of highlights and lowlights, but this focuses mostly on the positives. It features a good selection of matches and for fans of The Big Show this is the perfect set to own.