History Main / WrestlingMonster

* Missy Sampson, Aka Big Van Missy, Wrestling/{{WSU}}'s riff on Vader.

* [[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]] and Rio Storm are two more wrestling vampires and they are known for teaming up on occasion. Rio Storm is the more monstrous of the two. He'd also team up with Billy Blade in the {{tag team}} known as "Bloodline" and sometimes have Ariel as a valet, whom Billy claimed to have "[[ILoveYouVampireSon turned]]".

* Monster Bono of HUSTLE, born when Wrestling/TheGreatMuta's [[RuleOfSymbolism green mist got on the crotch]] of [[FemmeFatale Yinling The Erotic Terrorist]]. The ManChild was one of the too-dumb-to-know-better examples, as he lost his daddy to The Esperanza and he accidentally {{Killed Off| For Real}} his mother.

* Because Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}} loved this trope, [[BigBad Generalissimo Takada]] introduced a superpowered cyborg based on him called The Esperanza, who could even shoot wrestlers with FrickinLaserBeams. He was so powerful that not even the legendary Great Muta could defeat him.

* Apocalypse in UPW, who was basically a stand in for WWE's Kane. In Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}} he was the Himalayan Bigfoot and could take a whole lot of punishment without flinching because of his {{Delayed Reaction}}s but moved really slow. Bigfoot would move a lot faster though if someone poured ice cubes on him.

->''"[[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=93&nr=597 I am the reaper of wayward souls,]] I am the world heavyweight champion and this, this is the holy grail of everyone who steps foot in this ring. And that is why it was so important that I possess it, because every wayward soul would stray from crossing the path of The Undertaker! But now, consumed by the lust of fortune and fame, the recognition that this championship brings will lead them down a road for which they will be sorry they ever embarked. Because that road ends in my yard. For them it will be a graveyard."''

* Wrestling/BrockLesnar, the Next Big Thing. ''Smackdown'' had a nice amount of cruiserweight wrestlers to feed him and he was faster than most of them too. He also out-muscled those in his weight class and was pretty much booked to be an invincible heartless bastard, helped by the fact he [[RealLifeWritesThePlot broke Hardcore Holly's neck,]] and the fact he finished a match when his own was broken! And then he [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable broke The Streak.]] And now, with a dominating win over Wrestling/JohnCena at Wrestling/SummerSlam 2014 in the books, Lesnar is now being pushed as the ultimate, invincible monster. Being one of the most legit members of the rosters by way of being [[UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship an UFC champion]] also helps.
** The scary thing is, Heyman's WWE promos touting Lesnar as unbeatable might indeed be true, if what Heyman said (in a legit interview about Lesnar's potential as an mixed-martial arts wrestler) about Lesnar being a once-in-a-lifetime athlete, comparable to Jim Thorpe, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlin, Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky [[http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2163951-paul-heyman-at-100-health-no-fighter-could-have-touched-brock-lesnar are true]] (and Lesnar, who has had legit health issues including with diverticulitis, remains healthy).

* [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Amazing Kong/Awesome Kong/Kharma]] has been booked as a giant style wrestler, but she can play this role as well. Best seen in TNA where she started as an immovable giant but became better known for never staying down, her all around skill and her evil manager.

* Speaking of Kharma, the original Awesome Kong was one half of a tag team. The Colossal Kongs are most famous for their [[FashionVictimVillain odd dress]] and for being called the worst tag team of 1993 by ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'', but they were convincing monsters. Pretty much all their matches were {{Squash Match}}es that were over in under four minutes. That is, until ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Clash of the Champions XXIV'', August 18, 1993, when they found themselves facing BadassNormal Wrestling/RicFlair and LightningBruiser Wrestling/{{Sting}}. More specifically, Sting, who slammed both 400 lbs.+ guys in succession with ease and hit Awesome with a Stinger (leaping to opponent in the corner) Splash and a top rope splash for the win in about 2:14.

* President Ramu, lovingly nicknamed by fans as "La hija del Undertaker", was an eight year old girl whose strength was boosted to superhuman levels after she was possessed by a demon.

* Mordecai, a zealous Christian-in-all-but-name out to prove strength in the faith of God to all the sinners of the world, was one of the many monster characters WWE introduced with the failed long term plan of feuding with The Undertaker. Unfortunately, Kevin Fertig (the man who played him) had stage fright issues, and had to go back to developmental. He later got called back up and repackaged as Kevin Thorn, a wrestling vampire out to feed on the blood of ECW. Kevin Thorn was a "legit" ECW monster after they ran weeks worth of parodies such as shambling zombies for [[Wrestling/JimFullington the Sandman]] to beat with his cane. Fans suspect he was there to meet the science fiction requirement, back when Creator/{{Syfy}} was still called Sci Fi.

* "The American Tragedy" Zack Monstar would start out as an {{expy}} to Jason from ''Friday The Thirteenth" movies in New Era Wrestling and also show up as the "human horror show" in Nova Pro. REAL Pro Wrestling, by contrast, decided to give him a FreakyIsCool baby face push, though he remained as violent as ever and thrived in {{gimmick matches}}.

* A few heels in ''Manga/TigerMask'' have such gymmicks.

* Parodied in ''Film/NachoLibre''. The local monster team is made of two hairy, horned, beast men who squeal like pigs...and are only three feet tall...and pull of some of the most impressive offensive maneuvers in the whole film.

* In the first ''Film/SpiderMan1'' movie, Bonesaw [=McGraw=] embodies this during his brief moment on screen. He is kicking the crap out of an entire gauntlet of wrestlers to the point where one has to be carried out on a stretcher. Even though Peter is a superhuman, he is still nervous when he gets into the ring. Of course, his demeanor changes once he realizes he can beat Bonesaw.

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' had the Extreme Wrestling Confederation, run by a subsidiary of Pentex, in which vampires, shapeshifters and other supernaturals compete. First mentioned in the Children of the Night source book, along with the Nosferatu luchador El Diablo Verde.

* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' Executive Promoter of GWA (Global Wrestling Association), Jackie Oakes uses an UpgradeArtifact to turn himself into a giant jackal man and attacks the wrestlers booked in the main event without anyone batting an eye because they think it's AllPartOfTheShow. It actually was planned to be part of the show but Jackie turned it into a shoot. His two prized wrestlers, Pain King and Steel Toe (Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} and [[Wrestling/{{Test}} Andrew "Test" Martin]]), were also this trope, [[MeanCharacterNiceActor but their biggest real life fault was to think the idea of Jackie fighting them was a joke.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'''s Fast Forward episode, "[[ProWrestlingEpisode Headlock Prime]]", the villainous [[MultipleHeadCase three-headed]] behemoth Triple Threat makes his grand return to 2105's version of Madison Square Garden. In addition to trying to rob the arena's latest wrestling event, he reclaims his old heel persona to prove how "[[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad soft]]" the field of professional wrestling has gotten, taking down the main contenders one by one [[ProWrestlingIsReal for real]].

* Angel Trinidad from All-Star Championship Wrestling was presented as a wrestling monster ''in training''. He was very large but was not done growing yet and had not completely created his aura of invincibility.
** Lucha Underground has had a few.
** Mil Muertes, the man of a thousand deaths. A menacing masked luchador, at the time he debuted he was the largest man on the LU roster. His backstory: He was nearly killed in an earthquake as a young boy, and his soul is linked to a piece of rubble from the quake. Which means now that he has superhuman strength, endurance and durability, and even if he should be defeated, he just comes back even stronger.
** Cage "The Machine" is another example- bulging with muscles, stuffed with brutality and almost impossible to put down, he absolutely [[BerserkButton HATES it]] when an opponent gets up after he's knocked them down and will make them pay for their audacity. Not a perfectly straight example as although he's a power wrestler, he's also ''startlingly'' [[LightningBruiser agile for his size]] (like most of the LU roster) and is easily capable of flying over the top rope in pursuit of his victims... which only makes him even ''more'' intimidating!

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* Mil Muertes in Wrestling/LuchaUnderground. To wrestle him is to [[CurbStompBattle lose horribly]].
** And that's if you're lucky enough to not cross paths with the arm-breaking [[TheDreaded Pentagon Dark]]. Pentagon is an interesting variant on this trope as he's not huge, unstoppable, unshakable, implacable, or monstrous; in fact, he's mostly a technical wrestler who largely specialises in submissions. What he ''does'' have on his side is sheer brutal, sadistic viciousness that makes him one of the most outright ''dangerous'' men on the roster.

** Matanza Cueto quickly stole the mantle of the biggest monster in Wrestling/LuchaUnderground. His brother Dario Cueto entered him as the last man in Aztec Warfare, and Matanza made quick work of nearly half the active roster, winning the Lucha Underground title in emphatic fashion. Like Cage, Matanza isn't a giant (while he's scarily bulky, he's only about 5'10"), but also like Cage he's also ''much'' more agile than a man that strong has any right to be, capable of pulling off ''a standing shooting star press!''
** Incredibly, JokeCharacter [[CharacterDevelopment turned]] LethalJokeCharacter Marty "the Moth" Martinez may even be verging on this status. He's a [[AxCrazy complete lunatic]], his style has been getting more vicious and sadistic as time goes on (culminating in him going completely Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher on Fenix's forehead with a steel fork and then ''licking it'') and he's a full-blown CombatSadomasochist who openly invites big opponents like Mil Muertes to give him their best shot in the face and then [[FeelNoPain shrugs it off]] with a SlasherSmile. The fact that he can randomly go off after anyone for [[InsaneTrollLogic the most insane reasons]] gives him an extra air of menace, like he's a ticking time bomb walking around the Temple. He still doesn't win many matches and is mid-card at best, but the pieces are there for him to be at least a semi-credible monster.

* ''Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}'''s women's division has [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] who's one of the rare examples where a wrestler is this trope through sheer technique. She's not the biggest wrestler in the division, however she makes up for it with her ability to execute a wide assortment of strikes and submissions at lightning speed, and can suplex people bigger than her with relative ease. Not only did she beat Nia Jax, another wrestling monster, one way bigger than her, but she's amassed a win streak bigger than Goldberg's.

* During the 1940s, the Russian born wrestler Maurice Tillet was starting to get over big in the United States as The French Angel. He was billed as "The World's Ugliest Man" and pushed as nearly unstoppable for two years as champion of the Boston territory(Known as The American Wrestling Association but unrelated to [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation that one]]) and then of the Montreal Territory. He was one of the shortest examples of this trope, standing only at 5'7, which wasn't very tall even in his era, but he had acromegaly, which gave him a fearsome look. Throughout the forties and fifties, [[FountainOfExpies several other wrestlers would take up angel gimmicks in his wake]].
* "Argentina's Mad Bull" Wrestling/PamperoFirpo, rumored to gain unnatural strength through his hair, which he had a lot of and was [[NoSell all but immune]] to what should have been the debilitating effect of pulling on it, possessing of HardHead, asking not for nor giving of mercy.

-->"He revolutionized what people thought of a monster heavyweight wrestler. He elevated the standards of what it meant to be an agile giant who could make fans believe that he could destroy everyone."
* Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, who steamrolled through the entire roster during his WCW reign and became the biggest face in the company. His monster status became most obvious when he no-sold a flurry of offense from the similarly undefeated Wrestling/{{Glacier}}. It took a taser, and Wrestling/KevinNash's [[ExecutiveMeddling newly acquired superpowers as head booker]], to keep him down.

* Wrestling/TheUndertaker, but less so during his biker gimmick. Being a soul-stealing zombie gravedigger, it came with the territory. Besides the standard monster endurance, he could also control electricity and instantly move through darkness.
* Wrestling/{{Kane}}, being the little brother of the Undertaker. He was less known for winning titles than for torturing the rest of the roster. Doomsday (his USWA gimmick) was a prototype of this character. In more recent days, it's been shown that Kane is extremely intelligent and fully aware of his monstrous nature, and has even served as the voice of reason at some points; he warned Wrestling/AJLee off of starting a relationship with him by explaining that his psychosis makes him "not exactly boyfriend material", and also served as the (relative) StraightMan in a team with [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]].

* "The Inhuman Monstrosity" Superbeast, most commonly seen in Empire State Wrestling and In Your Face Wrestling.
* [[Wrestling/DrewHankinson Festus the "Corn Fed Colossus"]] was usually subdued, only becoming this trope when he heard the sound of a bell. It was revealed that his family were using drugs to keep him sedate, but Jesse discovered that bells made him come alive for some reason, and decided to sick him on WWE.

* Wrestling/{{Batista}} used to be this trope, especially in OVW where he was "[[Wrestling/JimCornette The Leviathan, The Demon Of The Deep, Guardian Of The Gates Of Hell, Right Hand Of The Devil Himself!]]". It pretty much came to an end once he was allowed to hold a microphone for over a minute. He remained a tough competitor, but lost the invincibility and the mystique.
* Wrestling/BrockLesnar, the Next Big Thing. Smackdown had a nice amount of cruiserweight wrestlers to feed him and he was faster than most of them too. He also out-muscled those in his weight class and was pretty much booked to be an invincible heartless bastard, helped by the fact he [[RealLifeWritesThePlot broke Hardcore Holly's neck,]] and the fact he finished a match when his own was broken! And then he [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable broke The Streak.]] And now, with a dominating win over Wrestling/JohnCena at Wrestling/SummerSlam 2014 in the books, Lesnar is now being pushed as the ultimate, invincible monster.

* Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s The Monster Abyss, being equal parts an {{expy}} of [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mankind]] and Kane. His time spent not playing this role is considered something of a DorkAge.

* The monster Wrestling/FightingOperaHustle would expand its members by brainwashing regular wrestlers and then turning them into monsters too, such as turning Sonjay Dutt into Monster J, Steve Corino into Monster C or in the case of extant ones, more monstrous, such as MONSTER Naoya Ogawa.

* Evil Dead, [[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling JCW]]'s wrestling corpse. [[PrettySpryForADeadGuy A little less intact than the Undertaker]], [[EvilIsVisceral his outer layer of flesh is gone]]. [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath He feels no pain, knows no fear]], and has to be restrained by a pair of {{Monster Clown}}s when he's not in matches. [[GroinAttack His testicals however, are still alive, and thus still vulnerable]]

There are two common theories floating around as to why José Gonzalez killed Brody. One is that Gonzalez's daughter supposedly drowned in the swimming pool while on a visit to Brody's familys house.\\
Another is that Brody and Gonzalez were going to have a match together once, but Brody didn't want to do it because he thought Gonzalez was too small, which he also said to his face (he called Gonzalez a "fucking midget" to be precise.) Gonzalez then stabbed Brody but apparently did not intend to kill him. Unfortunately, Brody had taken 7 asparins because he wanted to get a good bloodflow in his match (a common trick in Pro Wrestling) and as a result he was bleeding too heavily for the doctors to save him. However, at the end of the day nobody knows why Gonzalez did it.

* Another literal example can be found in "The Unspeakables", an entire team of wrestling ''{{eldritch abomination}}s''[[note]]a man turned into a slug-like abomination after accidentally encountering a Lovecraftian god below the sea, a sorceress from a race of pre-human SnakePeople, and the ''spawn'' of the aforementioned Lovecraftian god-thing[[/note]] in the ''TabletopGame/StreetFighter'' RPG. Ironically, it was ''also'' done by ''Creator/WhiteWolf''.

* Hitting moonsaults while weighing around 91KG at 1.70 meters was impressive enough, but Wrestling/BullNakano sometimes completely no-sold back suplexes just to drive in how futile her opponent's effort was.

* Following the new Brand Extension in 2016, ''Raw'' gained two: Former Wrestling/WyattFamily henchman Wrestling/BraunStrowman for the men, and Nia Jax of the Samoan wrestling dynasty for the women. Both have routinely squashed [[{{Jobber}} jobbers]] (up to three at once in Strowman's case), and each also has [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] a main roster opponent twice (Wrestling/SinCara for Strowman, Wrestling/AliciaFox for Nia). Both are sold as unstoppable monsters in their respective divisions, with the ''Raw'' commentary crew often wondering how one stops Strowman, and Strowman has even gone so far as to personally threaten ''Raw'' general manager Wrestling/MickFoley in the name of getting better competition. As a result, he got Wrestling/SamiZayn.

* Wrestling/BrockLesnar, the Next Big Thing. Smackdown had a nice amount of cruiserweight wrestlers to feed him and he was faster than most of them too. He also out-muscled those in his weight class and was pretty much booked to be an invincible heartless bastard, helped by the fact he [[RealLifeWritesThePlot broke Hardcore Holly's neck,]] and the fact he finished a match when his own was broken! And then he [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable broke The Streak.]] And now, with a dominating win over Wrestling/JohnCena at SummerSlam 2014 in the books, Lesnar is now being pushed as the ultimate, invincible monster.

* [[Wrestling/{{Vader}} Big Van Vader]], in the early-to-mid 90's was, according to MickFoley, "The greatest monster in the business", and Mick said he saw rookie wrestlers on several occasions actually quit WCW instead of work a match with Vader. Part of it was that Vader had a tendency to get carried away in the ring and was a notoriously "stiff" performer. In the words of Zach Arnold:

* "The American Tragedy" Zack Monstar would start out as an {{expy}} to Jason from ''Friday The Thirteenth" movies in New Era Wrestling and also show up as the "human horror show" in Nova Pro.

* Evil Dead, [[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling JCW]]'s wrestling corpse. [[PrettySpryForADeadGuy A little less intact than the Undertaker]], [[EvilIsVisceral his outer layer of flesh is gone]]. [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath He feels no pain, knows no fear]], and has to be restrained by a pair of {{Monster Clown}}s when he's not in matches.

** To put this in perspective, Goldberg has apparently ''never'' lost a match cleanly (save for a No DQ match, which may or may not count). In standard matches, he's ''always'' come out on top unless cheating is involved.

* Monster Bono of HUSTLE, born when The Great Muta's [[RuleOfSymbolism green mist got on the crotch]] of [[FemmeFatale Yinling The Erotic Terrorist]]. The ManChild was one of the too-dumb-to-know-better examples, as he lost his daddy to The Esperanza and he accidentally {{Killed Off| For Real}} his mother.

* ''Wrestling/WWENXT'''s women's division has [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] who's one of the rare examples where a wrestler is this trope through sheer technique - she's not the biggest wrestler in the division, however her experience and skill have been highly emphasized. She currently has a winning streak that has surpassed that of Golberg.

* Festus the "Corn Fed Colossus" was usually subdued, only becoming this trope when he heard the sound of a bell. It was revealed that his family were using drugs to keep him sedate, but Jesse discovered that bells made him come alive for some reason, and decided to sick him on WWE.