Hogan would go on to be inducted into the WWE HOF in 2005 and would stay with the company sporadically until 2007. Big Show would have various feuds, but his final run was in the recently re-launched ECW, where he would become the ECW World Champion, further angering the ECW faithful because Heyman turned on ECW Original RVD to help Big Show win.
Big Show was burned out and with his contract expiring in February 2007, he wanted time off and knew he wouldn’t get it if he re-signed with the company. So, leading into ECW’s December to Dismember PPV, where he would defend the title inside an Extreme Elimination Chamber. Now, this PPV is universally panned as the worst PPV under a WWE banner but that is a topic for potentially another time but when one of the only positive things you can say about a PPV is it had a great poster, that says pretty much all you need to know:
Big Show would drop the ECW title to Bobby Lashley and end his first run in WWE and wouldn’t make any more appearances as his contract would expire a few months later.
