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By DAN GELSTON 
 Hack-a-Shaq is coming to All Elite Wrestling.
 Shaquille O'Neal may again absorb some intentional hits in his tag team match this week. The 7-foot-1 basketball Hall of Famer gets his chance to dish out retribution — maybe a slam, a side headlock or a clothesline — when he steps into the ring for his first match with AEW.
 “Oh, I’m winning,” O'Neal said. “Guaranteed.”
 O’Neal says he’s a lifelong wrestling fan and ripped off a list of favorite wrestlers from Tony Atlas and Junkyard Dog to Andre the Giant and Brock Lesnar.
 Big guys. Tough guys.
 Like Shaq.
 O’Neal is set to perform in his first competitive match when he teams in with Jade Cargill in a mixed tag to take on Cody Rhodes and Red Velvet at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday’s episode of “Dynamite.”
 The seeds for a feud were set up last November when that O’Neal was the real giant-killer of pro wrestling. O’Neal and told Rhodes to name the place.
 “I’m the type, I can never back down from a challenge,” O’Neal told The Associated Press. “I’m not a professional wrestler, but I’ve been in a match before. I’ve got a lot of moves in my arsenal. When you step inside somebody’s world, you have to stick to what you’re masterful at. I’m not acrobatic. I’m not going to be jumping off the ropes. I’m coming with the power game. When I get hands on him, I’m going to display this power.”
 O’Neal in the Norcross, Georgia, but has otherwise limited professional wrestling training.
 “I’m the type that if I have a look and see you do it, I got it,” O’Neal said.
 O'Neal was crushed as a teenager when Hulk Hogan slammed and defeated Andre the Giant in the main event of WrestleMania III.
 Once he became an NBA star, Shaq Diesel — a nickname made for pro wrestling —- eventually had a word with the Hulkster.
 “I told him, ‘you broke my heart when you body-slammed Andre the Giant,’” O’Neal said. “I cried as a kid. I really did.”
 All was — mostly — forgiven seven years later in 1994 when and celebrated with O’Neal. O’Neal has been as well traveled inside the squared circle as some of his favorite stars. He stood side-by-very-large-side with Hogan in both World Championship Wrestling and and even competed in the Andre the Giant battle royal at WrestleMania in 2016.
 O’Neal, , stared down the 7-foot Big Show in WWE's battle royal before they teamed up to double choke-slam Kane. The remaining wrestlers conspired to toss O’Neal over the ropes and eliminate him from the match.
 “I wanted to ,” O’Neal said. 
 O’Neal might get his chance after Show left WWE after a 20-plus year stint there and is set to make his AEW debut on Wednesday.
 What a coincidence!
 The 48-year-old O’Neal, who won four NBA titles over his Hall of Fame career, is the latest in a long line of active and retired athletes who wrestled in attraction matches. in the 1990s, Lawrence Taylor wrestled in the main event of WrestleMania XI, and Mike Tyson has made appearances for WWE and AEW.
 “This one will top them all,” O’Neal said.
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