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* The most famous, of course, is the late [[Andre the Giant]], billed by [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] as the Eighth Wonder of the World. His most famous match was against [[Hulk Hogan]] at ''[[Wrestlemania]] 3''.
** Subverted by the fact that Andre was actually a moderately skilled Greco-Roman wrestler, and was [[Lightning Bruiser|frighteningly quick in his youth]], but said most famous match was from later in his life when chronic health problems had badly slowed him.
** [[Street Fighter|Hugo]] [[Final Fight|Andore]], 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]] from ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters]]''. Conversely, T. Hawk, who may actually be even larger than Hugo, is a very agile and technical fighter who prefers quick aerial maneuvers to grappling.
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* The obvious example in British wrestling was Giant Haystacks, briefly known as The Loch Ness Monster in the USA.
** There was also Big Daddy, a thirty-stone Yorkshireman christened Shirley Crabtree by a father who had listened to a lot of Johnny Cash and approved of the principles underlying the naming of sons.
* Just try to stop [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] from using these. In addition to Big Show, they've currently got [[Mark Henry]], The Great Khali, Undertaker, and [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]]. Of course, relative to the WWE's size, that number's fairly conservative.
** Of course, [[The Undertaker]] is arguably one of the very best big man wrestlers ever, [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] has always been solid—in his prime he could do hurricanranas, and [[Mark Henry]] was pretty mobile in the 90s and worked to improve in 2005.
* This trope isn't restricted to men's wrestling, either. On the women's side of things, we have:
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