Size doesn’t matter? Yeah right, maybe for arts or singing, but in the wrestling world, it’s of paramount importance. You can’t actually pick up a mountain of a man and then drop it to the knee with ease, so it’s no wonder that the biggest fighters usually managed to get the biggest accolades. It’s not like the smaller or regular sized guys don’t stand a chance, but even the hardest of them have to try hard not to show their nerves acting up when they found themselves in the shadow that the largest pro wrestlers cast in the ring.
Mark Henry – 6’4″ 418 lbs
Prior to his pro wrestling career, this living proof that everything IS actually bigger in Texas was a powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter, and strongman competition contestant, he was pretty successful too. The same applies for pro wrestling as he has been the WWE World Heavyweight champion, the European Champion, and the ECW Champion, so we would not be surprised if the “World’s Strongest Man” actually deserves this flattering title/nickname. Not to mention a couple of gold and silver medals from Pan American Games this 45-year-old has laying around the house somewhere.
The Great Khali 7’1″ 350 lbs
Far behind others on this list in regards to weight, The Great Khali deserves to be on it none the less, as he was a most recognizable character of the big, big men in the World Wrestling Entertainment organization for a long time and for a reason. Criminals in India must be extremely glad that Khali pursued the wrestling career and let go of his former profession – a policeman. Just the sight of this man on the street would be enough to drop the crime rate in the most notorious cities in the States because despite his “leanness” Khali is a building of a man because of the sheer volume of his muscles. His great physicality helped him become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion in 2007 after a 21 participant Battle Royale match. He was also a two times CWE Heavyweight Championship.
Big Show – 7’0″ 463 lbs
If Paul Randall Wight’s parents knew how big he will grow up to be, and how big his successes in the wrestling world will be, they would’ve probably named him Big Show themselves back in 1972 when he was born. The sheer number of his titles deserves, or just needs, a special article dedicated only to them as they’re too many. In the WCW he was a two times World Heavyweight Championship champ and a three times World Tag Team Championship champ. His earth-shaking career continued to blossom in the WWE with 8 tag team championships and two World Heavyweight championship belts besides eight other major accolades in the WWE. Pretty impressive even without mentioning that he is considered to be the “World’s Largest Athlete”.
Yokozuna – 6’4″ 589 lbs
Sumo wrestlers are some of the biggest people on the planet, and Yokozuna is a term that refers to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan, so Yokozuna’s name was quite fitting for his 6’4″ 589 lbs body even though he wasn’t actually from the Land of the Rising Sun. Probably the heaviest wrestler in the WWE was a Samoan-American that was brought up in a wrestling family and his triumphs have brought him a place in the WWE Hall of Fame, to which he has been posthumously inducted in 2012. Yokozuna was a two-time WWE Heavyweight Champion and a two times Tag Team champion, but we don’t actually know if they had to modify the belts in order for them to fit on his massive torso.
Andre The Giant – 7’2″ 520 lbs
There are probably quite a few people that thought nobody on the list that can be taller than the mountainous Great Khali, but that’s only because the younger wrestling fans didn’t have the privilege to bask in the greatness of “The Eight Wonder of The World” – Andre The Giant. He got this nickname fully deservedly because not only is he an inch taller than Khali, but a couple of hundred pounds heavier. The Hall of Famer was undefeated for nearly 15 years in the WWE during the 70’s and 80’s while managing to win WWF Tag Team Championship and the WWF World Heavyweight Championship with a couple of other tag team championships in other organizations.
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