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* This is pretty much a stock wrestling character, though [[Mark Henry]] is currently billed as the World's Strongest Man in WWE (And apparently was a winner of several Strongest Man competitions as well as an Olympic weightlifter, which is the source of his gimmick. He is also the current world record holder for the ungeared squat, at 430 kg). Previous World's Strongest Men include Bill Kazmaier (who also won a few Strongest Man competitions, and came to the ring holding a giant inflatable globe to evoke images of Atlas) and Ken Patera (who was an Olympic weightlifter). Let's not forget one of the first with this billing, Ted Arcidi.
* Doug Furnas was so billed during his brief [[WCW]] days.
* The late Dino Bravo in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], though being a [[Heel]], he was usually billed as the ''Self-Proclaimed'' World's Strongest Man.
** And sometimes he was billed as ''Canada's'' Strongest Man. Guess sometimes people just need more realistic goals...
* The first [[Wrestlecrap]] book posited that any wrestler using this moniker [[The Worf Effect|will inevitably fail]], especially if used to promote weightlifters who cannot actually wrestle (which is often the case).
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