Summary

Paul Wight says one of the most memorable moments from his WrestleMania 24 program with Floyd Mayweather happened after the match was already over.

While reflecting on that celebrity bout, Wight recalled Mayweather's grandmother pulling him aside backstage and sharply confronting him over a spot where he stood on the boxer during the match. Wight described her as intimidating and said Mayweather eventually had to step in and calm the situation down.

The story adds another layer to Wight's recent WrestleMania 24 memories. Earlier in the same media run, he also discussed how an original tag team plan with Mayweather changed because of injuries before WWE settled on the singles match.

Quote from Paul Wight

"At WrestleMania, I stood on him in the match. After the Mania match, after he punches me in the knuckle dusters and the chair shots and everything else, his grandmother... pulled me off to the side and was ripping me a new ass for standing on him. She's intimidating! Floyd had to come over like, you know, 'hey, Nana, it's okay.' 'You stand on him like that. He's small. You could have-' I think she said I could have burst him or something. She thought I was going to cave in his ribcage. She is absolutely ready to fight, and I was like... yeah, Floyd came over and rescued me, but, boy, she had her eye on me for about 20 minutes after that whole thing went down. By the end of it, everything was cool, but when I came through the curtain, it wasn't-the WWE staff telling me I did a great job and all that stuff. Normally, like, you know, that's good, but as soon as I came past that staging area, she was right there waiting for me and, like... had me by the arm, like by the wrist, and pulled me off to the side, and, you know, I got my ass chewed pretty heavy, and I was like, 'but ma'am, he's a... yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am.' Like, there was no arguing that whatsoever."

What the WrestleMania 24 story says about Floyd Mayweather and Paul Wight

WrestleMania 24 was built around the size difference between Mayweather and Wight, so the spot Wight described was always going to stand out to anyone watching closely. His retelling makes it clear Mayweather's family was just as invested in protecting him as WWE was in selling the spectacle.

For wrestling fans, the anecdote also helps explain why that feud still gets remembered nearly two decades later. Mayweather brought crossover star power, Wight gave the match its physical threat, and even this backstage story reinforces how seriously everyone around the program treated the moment.

Sources

Paul Wight while speaking with Gareth A Davies