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2->''"That right there is one of the most basic moves in the history of wrestling but when it's applied by the Wrestling/BigShow it could be a finishing move."''
3-->-- '''Wrestling/JerryLawler''', on the side headlock take down.
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5In your basic ProfessionalWrestling promotion, there's one guy who's ''much'' bigger than everyone else. Usually at least a head taller than the next-tallest man on the roster, and a mountain of muscle (and fat) to boot. So, of course, the promoters advertise him as an unstoppable killing machine, regardless of the big man's (lack of) talent.
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7Such men are almost universally introduced and pushed the same way as [[WrestlingMonster "monster" heels]], sometimes mixed with a ForeignWrestlingHeel vibe. Because of their billing, they will usually be pushed straight to the top to face off with the top {{Face}}, whom they'll generally [[SquashMatch squash]] in [[FinalBossPreview their first meeting]], [[TheWorfEffect to give you an idea of how Herculean an effort will be required to defeat them]].
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9An important distinction between The Giant and just being large is that The Giant will have [[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject sheer immovability]] and too often a noticeable [[UnskilledButStrong lack in the talent department]], having a very small repertoire of basic strikes and throws or not possessing WrestlingPsychology. While some with the Giant gimmick will disprove some of the stereotypes by showing a more diverse range of moves along with decent fitness and mobility, their in ring style and psychology are still built almost entirely around being large and hard to budge, as it is the easiest/most credible way to build matches with guys like them. And they will rarely be in a hurry either which, when worked well, can go a long towards making them seem that much larger. Wrestling/JimRoss used to refer to these types of wrestlers as Hosses, after Hoss Cartwright from ''Series/{{Bonanza}}''.
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11Moves done by giants enough to typically become associated with them first and foremost include the [[NeckLift chokeslam]], being the obligatory move to show their raw power and simple approach to wrestling, with clawholds if the wrestler has particularly huge hands not being far behind. The classic big boot or stationary kick right to the face of a running, puny opponent is another and, ultimately, if the Giant has a big belly or otherwise a heavy torso, a [[BellyFlopCrushing big splash]] is the most adequate {{finishing move}}.
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13If the angle goes on long enough, The Giant might get a HeelFaceTurn, rebelling on the manager who brought him in and going his own way. This usually results in them [[RedemptionDemotion no longer being unstoppable]].
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15Related to MusclesAreMeaningful (large means slow and strong). Comparable to SmashMook. For mythical giants, see OurGiantsAreBigger.
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23* The most famous, of course, is Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, billed by Wrestling/{{WWE}} as the Eighth Wonder of the World (a title that initially belonged to Wrestling/PamperoFirpo). His most famous match was against Wrestling/HulkHogan at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 3''. Though in this case, Andre ''was'' a skilled wrestler and [[{{Acrofatic}} much faster than he looked]], but adopted the classic Giant style for a combination of reasons; for one, producers told him to slow down because being a MightyGlacier made it easier to sell him as being nearly impossible to actually hurt, and for two, by the later stages of his career his chronic pain due to gigantism made it impossible for him to execute most of his moves.
24* Early during his 1979-1981 WWF run, Wrestling/HulkHogan was billed as a "giant," although this was because he was bigger than almost everyone on the roster at the time except for Andre the Giant. It was inevitable the two would eventually meet ... and so the first chapter of a legendary feud was written.
25* Curtis "The Cat" Hughes was an example that was less about his height, "only" being six foot five, than about his muscles. Incidentally, he was much more flexible and dexterous than most muscle bound guys and a decent technical wrestler. What made him qualify for this trope, the reason few fans knew of these qualities, was that Cat was ''[[MightyGlacier very]]'' slow.
26* Paul Wight, billed as The Giant in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/BigShow in WWE. Injuries and weight troubles kept him from reaching his fullest potential, and many fans began calling him "[[XPacHeat The Big Slow]]" (a moniker either given to him or made canon by [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]]). However, his most recent return to WWE sees him a good fifty pounds lighter than when he left, and he's moving a little better; on top of that, at least in comparison with Wrestling/TheGreatKhali (see below), the fans love him. He also epitomizes the giant being pushed to the top, as ''his first ever match'' was in the main event of a Wrestling/{{WCW}} pay-per-view for the world championship. However, he has put his generally basic repertoire to good use; a ''chest slap'' has become one of his signature moves--he shushes the audience, and then smacks the guy, allowing the crack of a hand the size of a frying pan to echo throughout the arena. He had a wide variety of moves in WCW, including dropkicks kip-ups and athletic slams. He was so unique, he is the only wrestler that won PWI's Rookie of the Year and Wrestler of the Year in his debut. He even claims he did a ''moonsault'' once or twice at house shows during his WCW tenure.
27** Early on in his WCW run, Wight was billed as being the son of Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, despite not being related to Andre in any way. This was dropped after a while, though. His height was also exaggerated -- he's closer to 6'10" than 7', but was consistently billed around 7'4" by WCW.
28** While he was in college in the early 1990s, Wight had surgery on his pituitary gland to halt his gigantism. While he was of course already huge, this means Big Show's disease is no longer progressing the way Andre's did, and thus he's in much better health than a "true" giant would normally be at his age.
29* Jorge González, billed as El Gigante in WCW and Wrestling/GiantGonzalez in WWE. May be more well-known for the "naked" bodysuit he was required to wear as the latter. He feuded with Wrestling/TheUndertaker while "The Deadman" was in his prime (who he can be seen towering over in the top left of the page image; 'Taker is 6'10" himself). His profile at the wwe.com Alumni Gallery lists his height as ''8 feet'', but it was actually more like 7'6". Incidentally, in spite of his lack of finesse in the ring, he was good enough at basketball to be almost become a member of the Argentine national team; he would have competed in the 1988 Olympics, but he was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks two months before the games.
30* Starting in All Pro Wrestling, moving to Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, Wrestling/{{New Japan| Pro Wrestling}} and finally winding up as the biggest man in WWE, Wrestling/TheGreatKhali, who at 7'1" is (slightly) taller than the Undertaker, Kane, and the Big Show. He's also one of the least mobile examples in wrestling history, due to the strain his gigantism puts on his body. He's still a huge attraction though, managing to draw a crowd of sixty thousand in his native Punjab to see CWE students, well after his WWE run was over.
31* One example that only concerns the wrestler's weight and not height was Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, who combined this trope with the ForeignWrestlingHeel angle (he was born in American Samoa, but was only billed as being from the Polynesian Islands).
32* British wrestler Wrestling/GiantHaystacks, also known as the Loch Ness Monster in Stampede Wrestling and as just Loch Ness during his brief run in Wrestling/{{WCW}} in February-March 1996. He debuted before the ''WCW [=SuperBrawl=] VI'' [=PPV=] as the newest member of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom, but left the group in time to lose to the Giant (Big Show) at ''WCW [=Uncensored=] 96'' in March.
33* Also in the Dungeon of Doom was Wrestling/RonReis as The Yeti. His being visibly (if only slightly) taller than his stablemate The Giant sort of took the air out of The Giant's gimmick. Especially since he was later repackaged as the Super Giant Ninja -- who sounds better, The Giant or the Super Giant Ninja who is taller than the Giant? A few years later Reis showed up again as Reese, the GiantMook of Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock.
34* Big Daddy, a thirty-stone Yorkshireman christened Shirley Crabtree by a father who had listened to a lot of Music/JohnnyCash and approved of the principles underlying the naming of sons.
35* [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]]'s entire run as WWF champion could be described as kick and throw throw smaller guy around, eventually pin him, repeat. In his later WCW run he became legendarily lazy and endeavored to do as little work as possible in the ring. It's often joked that Kevin Nash knows about 4 moves, 5 if you count the HairFlip.
36* The 658 lbs Maximum Capacity, Future of Wrestling's 2001 rookie of the year. To a lesser extent, their "next biggest guy" at the time was the 6'11, 302 lbs Punisher. That's right Max was over twice the size of what would be the go to giant of most promotions. A car accident forced Max to take a break from the promotion however and he never seemed to fully recover, so Punisher ended up getting more exposure.
37* Just try to stop Wrestling/{{WWE}} from using these. In addition to Big Show, everyone else in that picture has been on their television programming at one time or another. Big Show, Wrestling/MarkHenry, Undertaker, and Wrestling/{{Kane}} are particular favorites whom WWE can't seem to get enough to of, although relative to the WWE's size, that number's fairly conservative. Of course, Wrestling/TheUndertaker is arguably one of the very best big man wrestlers ever, Wrestling/{{Kane}} has always been solid--in his prime he could do hurricanranas, and Wrestling/MarkHenry was pretty mobile in the 90s and worked to improve in 2005.
38** Notice that the wrestlers listed above are among the longest-tenured in WWE -- this is because the "giant" style doesn't take much of a toll on the body (mostly due to taking few bumps), meaning giant wrestlers can keep working well past the age others might retire at.
39** On the flip side, Team Lesnar in ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2003'' was built on this trope but had no longevity. It featured Wrestling/BrockLesnar, A-Train, Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones and the Big Show together as the largest team in the history of the pay per view. Two had just surfaced on TV and 3/5ths of them were gone by next year.
40** Eli Cottonwood, one of the rookies in Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} season 2. He was ''bad'', but he was about 6'10". In vignettes about him the other pros struggled to have anything nice to say about him other than "He's tall." He managed to stick around WWE's developmental league FCW (and later the revamped NXT) for a couple years, based entirely on being large and having no other upside.
41** Wrestling/BraunStrowman was one of WWE's more successful attempts, a 6'8", 385lb former strongman capable of incredible feats of power. While he got off to a slow start in the company, after a few years he got over as an unstoppable WrestlingMonster as both his skills and booking improved and Big Show passed the torch to him in an impressive trilogy of giant vs giant matches.
42** Their latest attempt is Omos, a colossal ex-basketball player billed at a whopping 7'3" and 400lb. After a few EarlyBirdCameo appearances as a giant ninja serving Akira Tozawa in a silly comedy match or the silent doorman of the ill-fated "RAW Underground", he officially debuted on the main roster as Wrestling/AJStyles' bodyguard and eventual tag partner, often intimidating opponents into making mistakes in matches that Styles could capitalise on by doing what he does best: standing at ringside Being Tall. It was even theorised that his presence contributed to the shocking release of Braun Strowman because Omos was just so much taller than even the "Monster Among Men" that he damaged Strowman's aura. There's just one small problem with WWE's intentions to push Omos as hard as they can: he can't wrestle.
43* Wrestling/{{Chyna}}, the "Ninth Wonder of the World", who actually held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/ic.html WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Title]] and was built up over a period of months specifically so they wouldn't [[MoralGuardians get in trouble]] for having men fighting a woman.
44* WCW had Midnight (real name Ann Marie Crooks). She was a {{face}} and accompanied Wrestling/BookerT, but was only around for a few months. Website/{{WrestleCrap}} would also like to remind you of one of her opponents, [[DontExplainTheJoke Asya, who was bigger than Chyna]]. In a different induction, Midnight was described as "better than Stevie Ray", though.
45** Wrestling/JoeyStyles had already made a similar joke about Nicole Bass, a massive female bodybuilder who gained a degree of fame for her appearances on ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'' and later spent time in Wrestling/{{ECW}} and WWE, saying that she should be named "Russia" because she's bigger than Chyna.
46* The late Rhonda Singh, who played former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWF Women's Champion]] Bertha Faye, and Monster Ripper in Japan. She briefly worked in WCW under her own name as well. She was especially this in WWF, where she wasn't allowed to do most of the moves that got her over in CSP/WWC or [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling Zenjo.]]
47* La Chacala has a long, successful run in this role for LLF. For those of you with no grasp of Spanish, most of the roster has a given name or fancy moniker, she's just "[[EveryoneCallsHimBarKeep the big one]]" (and still was even when April Hunter was with them)
48* The unstoppable, 275-pound [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} or Kharma (WWE), both at the very beginning of her career before she took off as LightningBruiser in [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling Zenjo]] and towards the end when various issues slowed her down.
49* The 6'1, 316 lbs Betsy Ruth or Rosie Lottalove to TNA viewers. However, she went to the Diana promotion in Japan in 2011 and fell off the radar by mid 2012 before resurfacing in late 2014, 127 lbs lighter (still much larger than most but the giant gimmick's been shredded, mostly).
50* Melanie Cruise became more and more of one the more she wrestled in SHIMMER. Some found this to be an [[LoveToHate improvement]] over her technical-striker ways, as it allowed her to get [[HateSink heat]] without Annie Social.
51* The 6 ft 9 Isis the Amazon (real name Lindsay Kay Hayward), of the American indie scene. That's her dominating the lineup in the bottom-right corner of the page pic; you can see that the top of Wrestling/AJLee's head is about level with Isis' breasts. She's done a bit of acting too, and consequently holds the Guinness World Record title for the tallest women ever to play a leading role. She was very briefly in WWE developmental as Aloisia.
52* From Wrestling/{{GLOW}}, there was ForeignWrestlingHeel Matilda the Hun (aka Queen Kong) billed at 280 pounds and her rival, Mountain Fiji, billed at 350 pounds. The {{face}}, Mountain Fiji, played the roll much straighter. All the heels of that season had to work together just to take her off of her feet and even then Mountain Fiji was never knocked to the mat in a match.
53* Linda Miles, also known as Shaniqua. Tall and muscular but was clearly not ready when she was put on television (just like everyone else from Tough Enough 2). Ohio Valley Wrestling bookers stopped trusting her not to injure other women, including body builders like Melissa Coates and amateur standouts like Wrestling/BethPhoenix, concluding no opponent smaller than Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin (roughly her size) would be safe in a ring with Miles.
54* Parodied by Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} wrestler Hydra, who does the whole Giant schtick despite being 5' 6" and 140 pounds. CHIKARA's had a few real giants on their roster since - Tursas (billed at 6'8" 376 lbs), Max Smashmaster (originally billed at 6'4" and 400+ lbs, he's slimmed down to around 350), Nokken (a little taller but a good deal slimmer than Tursas), and Deucalion (billed as "Bigger than Tursas", although he was wearing bulky gear and wasn't quite a giant underneath it all). They also had Abominus Rex who was the biggest of them all, but something went sideways between him and the promotion and he was only there for a couple cards.
55* Giant Baba of Japan, who was close to 7 feet tall (which is even more unusual in Japan than it is in the West). Unlike many Giants, Baba was actually quite a talented pro wrestler, though he didn't age well. Also, while his strikes were put over, he didn't really wrestle like a giant so far as the powerful part of the archetype goes. That's not to say he didn't use his size to his advantage, though. Baba was known to use his long legs to put his opponents in leg scissors during mat segments to break their momentum, most famously using this tactic against the Destroyer in their 1969 match.
56* The late Wrestling/JohnTenta had a good run at a giant archetype as Earthquake in the WWE, feuding with Wrestling/HulkHogan at the height of his career, eventually alongside the similarly gigantic Typhoon (Wrestling/FredOttman). They called themselves the Natural Disasters.
57* Tenta later joined The Oddities, an entire stable of giant men managed by the much smaller Wrestling/LunaVachon, the Music/InsaneClownPosse, and briefly Wrestling/{{Sable}}.
58** Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, previously The Interrogator of the Truth Commission and later Kurrgan The Interrogator during an attempted singles monster push, was around 7 feet tall and in the mid 300s in weight.
59** Wrestling/GiantSilva was actually bigger than The Big Show, and was actually released to make sure he didn't overshadow the soon-to-arrive Show. Nonetheless, Silva was an awesomely agile giant, and could perform top rope moves, hurricanranas and sunset flips during his later stay in Japan and Mexico.
60* King Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V and all his other gimmicks were this. Six Foot nine, five hundred pounds, not a lot of mobility by wrestler standards and the large majority of his matches revolved around how someone could manage to do anything to him. He was also one of the most infamously unsafe workers WWE ever employed, once almost breaking Diesel's back during their ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'' match for the WWE Championship just by careless sitting on him and smashing The Undertaker's face with misaimed leg drops.
61* Wrestling/{{Kamala}} was billed as the Ugandan giant but was shorter and more nimble than most examples. His weight was really what put him in this trope's territory - he was billed at as much as 450 lbs.
62* [[Wrestling/RobertSwenson Jeep Swenson]], better known for playing Bane in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' than for wrestling, was 6 ft 4 but weighed 405 lbs. And it was all muscle.
63* Ernie Ladd, who was a skilled collegiate wrestler and not the biggest guy in the Territories anyway. Subverted in wrestling anyway, played completely straight in his professional football career as a defensive tackle, where he was prized on his size and strength alone. He was part of a foursome largely credited for the Chargers AFL title win.
64* Happy Humphrey, who weighed a whopping 800 pounds! He was somewhat immobile, especially compared to his quicker moving contemporary rival Wrestling/HaystacksCalhoun, who was still something of an example simply for weighing 600 pounds, which was still too much for most wrestlers to slam.
65* The [=McGuire=] Twins, best known for being photographed while riding motorcycles, weighed over 700 lbs each and were close to 7 feet tall.
66* Wrestling/{{Akebono}} was a legendary sumo who turned to professional wrestling after he retired. He's very fat, but also quite tall at 6'8". He was built up as being so heavy not even Brock Lesnar could lift him. (He was only 16 pounds heavier than the Big Show, whom Brock could lift, so he ''should'' have been able to do it).
67* Ryota Hama also became a pro wrestler after sumo, and he's almost an exaggeration of the "guy who isn't really that tall but is incredibly fat" version of the trope -- 5'9" (a little over average height for an adult Japanese man) and nearly ''500'' lbs.
68* Bishop Cross, previously known as Giant Magnum, Giant Titan, Tower, Colossus, Gigante Extassis and Dementus is a proud 2010s example of this trope, describing his wrestling style as all around power.
69* Every last faction in Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel has their own giant - namely Slo Feng of the Heroes, Mota Naru of the Swarm, Napalean of Dr. Cube's Posse, and Vegetius of the Rogues. Napalean is noted on the website to be the single largest kaiju in competition.
70* Jerry Tuite, best known as The Wall in WCW. Unusually for this trope he never had much of a singles push beyond the midcard, and mostly played the role of a bodyguard or the enforcer in a stable.
71* Tommy "Tiny" Lister, the actor who played Zeus from ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'', had a short wrestling career almost solely because of this trope.
72* Wrestling/BobSapp was tall and heavy enough to fit the trope, even more in Japan. Ironically he was even more this trope in kick boxing and mixed martial arts than traditional pro wrestling. As a pro wrestler Sapp had a lot of moves, even if almost all of them involved picking up and dropping the other guy or running into them. His matches occasionally saw something resembling a long term game plan on his part. Sapp's professional fights could almost always be described as him charging forward flailing his arms, [[UnskilledButStrong however]].
73* PWX rookie standout NYX wanted {{the gimmick}} of a mysterious gothic technical wrestler, but at six foot five, two hundred and sixty pounds most promotions usually booked her as an immovable giant, ''especially'' against other women. Occasionally she got to wrestle as she wanted against a man of comparable size, but most times when she was with a man it was she acted as the {{bodyguard|babes}} or {{dominatrix}} to a {{tiny|guyhugegirl}} one.
74* Rycklon Stephens is this among [[Wrestling/NelsonErazo Homicide]]'s students, in a similar manner to Curtis Hughes mostly for his musculature, being a former body builder who is only about six foot two but weighed about three hundred pounds. Unlike Hughes and similar to Sapp, Stephens is fairly quick but his arsenal is very repetitive and more simplistic than Hughes (but more complex than Sapp). He was less this and more big guy in WWE as "Ezekiel Jackson" but his giant attributes truly shined through on Lucha Underground, or would have if not for Vibora (although Big Rick had been gone for almost 2 seasons by the time Vibora debuted).
75* As Enzo Amore reminds everyone, [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a2/67/59/a267593bc40f418f5912d2f028984025.jpg Big Cass]] is 7 feet tall [[CharacterCatchphrase and you can't teach that!]] He was easily the tallest person during his {{Wrestling/WWENXT}} run. The second tallest was Baron Corbin at 6'8".
76* [[SnakePeople Vibora]] was the resident giant on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground. His performer, Austin Matelson, is actually only 6'5" tall (although commentary put him at 7'), not ''particularly'' gigantic by the standards of this trope, but since Lucha Underground is on average a much shorter promotion than WWE, he ''towers'' over most of the roster in a most intimidating manner. [[MightyGlacier Slow and immobile]] (possibly deliberately) in his season 3 debut, training with [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Mundo]] between seasons improved his skills dramatically, making him insanely [[LightningBruiser fast and agile for his size]]. After LU closed down (and Vibora was KilledOffForReal early in season 4 anyway), he went to Wrestling/{{AEW}} as Luchasaurus of the Jurassic Express, teaming with [[BigGuyLittleGuy the slim Jungle Boy (who rides on his shoulders) and TINY Marko Stunt]].
77* Wrestling/NiaJax is a pretty good example. Six feet tall and billed as weighing 275 pounds, which is bigger than many of the ''men'' WWE employs, and she was fast tracked out of their developmental program to their main television show to win the women's title belt, despite having less {{wrestling psychology}} than many losers of the diva searches. (WWE, for their part, did slow down her push when the novelty wore off and fans started getting bored.)
78* Maxxx Testosterone is basically a giant for higher in Canada, especially in Quebecois enterprises like Federation Canadienne de Lutte. Thanks to the size escalation wrestlers have underwent over the decades he's not ''that'' massive overall, being around an imperial 6'2 345 lbs, which makes him only about 20-30 heavier than long running star of the nation's circuit Dru Onyx, but Maxxx gets booked in the kind of one on two {{squash match}}es and such expected of giants almost immediately after debuting.
79* The Giant Kyote of Australian promotions such as Pro Wrestling Alliance Queensland and AWF, is just two inches short of seven feet tall and weighs at least four hundred pounds. The bad news is that the next biggest guy is often Jake Paragon, his Alpha Giant TagTeam partner, though sometimes it's the 6'7 364 lbs Massive Q, who is more likely to compete against Kyote.
80* El Gigante Nihan is the purest example of this trope associated with CSP/WWC. Yes Andre The Giant was there before him, but it was hardly Andre's home promotion and Wrestling/{{Abyss}} would like to remind you that he got his start in Puerto Rico but was really only an example of this trope using the Abyss gimmick(which he didn't initially have) and even that became more GarbageWrestler over time. Nihan however is a dedicated WWC mid card talent who is pretty quick for a man his size and does do an occasional fairly flashy move like a knee drop but is mostly a brawler with a few power moves and little on the mat finesse.
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84* ''Manga/BootyRoyaleNeverGoDownWithoutAFight'': Minor character Veronica Lin is a former US pro wrestling {{heel}}-turned-MMA fighter who stands 205 centimeters tall and weighs 110 kilos, making her one of the biggest characters in the manga of any sex. In her first match, she beats her opponent unconscious in a performance compared to being hit by a truck, though [[DavidVersusGoliath the much smaller Maria Luisa Riviera]] beats her in the round of 16 by outmaneuvering her and choking her out.
85* Several villains in ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' and ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'' get by mostly on superior size and strength. Perhaps most emblematic is the Mountain, one of the largest and heaviest wrestlers in either series. His ultimate finishing move is a simple frog splash (with the NameOfPower "Mountain Drop"), but it's absolutely devastating because of how massive he is.
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90** Mighty Monolith, a 7 foot tall behemoth weighing in at a frightening 350 lbs. He also exemplifies the "heavily pushed" facet of giant wrestlers; after his first match, he nearly cracks the top ten of SPKO's Power Rankings. His opponent, cruiserweight fellow-rookie Joe Somiano, easily ran rings around him, but couldn't stand up to his physical might.
91** Slightly shorter but even heavier is Prince Swagger, 6'9" and 375 lbs of pure punching power. Management is trying to get him over, but other SPKO wrestlers are afraid to fight him -- his size and strength, coupled with his lack of experience in the ring, makes facing him ''very'' dangerous, especially in a setting where ProWrestlingIsReal.
92** The first volume also featured Yoko Nono, who was an {{Expy}} of the above-mentioned Yokozuna.
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96* Gregor "the Mountain that Rides" Clegane from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', who is a giant in the literal (he's around eight feet tall) and medical sense - he has gigantism, which translates to horrible splitting headaches that the local equivalent of opium does very little to soothe. This in addition to a bad case of ParentalFavoritism doing nothing to curb his tendencies (his torturing and scarring his little brother was covered up, and it's likely he murdered his father for his inheritance) make him a perfect example of a PsychoForHire. And after his duel with Prince Martell, he's a TechnicallyLivingZombie who might not even have a ''head'', but is just as strong.
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100* Ernie Ladd - the same one mentioned above under Pro Wrestling - was a successful football player as well. One of the page quotes comes from an opponent on the football field describing being lined up against him.
101* The NBA has also had its share of giants on the basketball court. Effective big men are hard to come by, though, and misfires like Gheorghe Mureșan, Jake Voskuhl, and Wang Zhizhi are all too common. 7 footers and up are always in demand, based on the reasoning that if the 7'0" guy needs polishing, you can teach him to be better, whereas you ''can't'' teach a guy who's already good to be 7 feet tall.
102** Greg Ostertag was a notable shot blocker, setting a school record at the University of Kansas that stands to this day and leading the NBA in block percentage twice. He was also notable for being bad at virtually every other aspect of the game.
103** Manute Bol was literally the tallest man to ever play in the NBA (tied with Mureșan, technically), and while he was a dominant blocker and good three-point shooter, he was also dangerously underweight for his size -- 7'7" and just ''200'' lbs.
104** Yao Ming is a most notable example, as he was extremely talented, and when on top of his game, was capable of dominating the lane with an iron fist.
105** Shaquille O'Neal is another prominent example, at least as far as his lane presence is concerned. His free throw ability, not so much--[[Film/ScaryMovie famously so]].
106* Emmanuel Yarborough was a little-known sumo wrestler and MMA fighter, but his main claim to fame was as the holder of the Guinness World Record for World's Largest Athlete, at 6'8" tall and over 800 pounds. Interestingly, although he was a shoot fighter he very strongly resembled a Giant pro wrestler, with a moveset that mostly consisted of basic punches and trying to crush his opponent under his weight, and his fairly limited MMA record consisted mostly of losses to scrappy, much smaller underdogs. He even worked for the Catch Wrestling Association in Germany for a time, though his gimmick was mostly based on his sumo background.
107* In the NHL by Zdeno Chára, the tallest player ever to play in the league, who is considered one of the top defensemen playing at the moment. Ironically, some thought that his height was the only reason he even had a job during his rookie season, disregarding his actual skill. On the flip side, the second tallest [=NHLer=] of all time, Steve [=McKenna=], was not very good at all, and found himself a frequent healthy scratch before going to Australia to become the coach of their national team.
108** That all said, the idea that bigger is automatically better in hockey is becoming increasingly discredited. While it may seem counter intuitive, you should go with the shorter goalie every time. (The puck rarely goes far above the ice, and since hockey goals aren't very large, you want shorter goalies, who can drop to the ground faster to stop the puck.)
109* Hong Man Choi has an MMA career almost solely because of this trope in gimmick matches. His opponents have included baseball's Jose Canseco and the previously-descibed Akebono (3 times).
110** While his MMA matches are pretty much gimmicks, Choi actually is a decent kickboxer and holds a respectable record in K-1 (9-6 not counting the three wins against Akebono).
111* Another MMA example: Even among the UFC Heavyweights, Stefan "Skyscraper" Struve stands out at 6'11 and 260. His tallest opponent was 4 inches shorter. His shortest, a full foot shorter than him. However, he owns a 25-6 record and is very accomplished on the ground.
112* Nikolai Valuev, "the Russian Giant", multiple title world heavyweight champion, was the tallest and heaviest boxing champ ever at 7'0 and 320 pounds. He was often criticized for having little boxing skill compared to his opponents... but he was ''so big'' that he still ended up with a 50-2 record, with both his losses being contested split decisions.
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117* [[Franchise/StreetFighter Hugo]] [[VideoGame/FinalFight Andore]], standing at ''8 feet'' and being a near-{{Expy}} of Heel-era André, exhibits next to no finesse in his attacks compared to other grapplers. The same thing can be seen on [[{{Heel}} Raiden]] (based on the legendary Wrestling/{{Vader}}, who was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff hugely popular in Japan]]) from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' and ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''.
118** Zigzagged with Zangief, who has some elements of this (MightyGlacier and specially in the earlier games, HuskyRusskie, really freaking big, several grapple and piledriving-based moves) but often ends up subverting the trope (much friendlier and boisterous than the average giant personality-wise, and wasn't that much of an asshole beforehand)
119* Titanic Tim from the ''VideoGame/SaturdayNightSlamMasters'' games is a 7'9" goliath whose fighting style is even listed as "giant wrestling"... but he's actually pretty good at grappling and such anyway. Still, in a league where other fighters can throw grenades or turn into meteors, a lunging karate chop is pretty basic.
120** Titanic Tim was based on Japanese wrestling legend Giant Baba, who despite being extremely tall did ''not'' have a limited or basic repertoire of moves.
121* The Giant, a call name and the heavy template you can choose for your CAW in the WWE Day Of Reckoning games, is essentially this wrestling style. It has the most simplistic moves of the "big man" choices.
122* The later ''VideoGame/FireProWrestling'' games have a number of wrestling styles in the character editor/CAW creator. The Giant style has poor Affinity ratings in everything except for punching and dirty attacks; it doesn't even feature high ratings in the Power category. One assumes this is to reflect the extremely limited movesets of most real-life 'giant' wrestlers, especially since low Affinity rating for a move causes it to drain a lot of stamina. The lack of beneficial offensive stats leaves [[DumpStat a lot of points]] to put into defense for Create-A-Wrestlers, though. "Giant" is also a defensive style you can select, whereby you can't be thrown by even the most basic grapples until you've been sufficiently worn down with strikes and holds.
123* Craig Marduk from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' is a good example of this trope, even though his official fighting style is Vale Tudo as opposed to wrestling.
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