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** Joshi star Hiroyo Matsumoto certainly wrestles like one of these. She's not the tallest girl on the roster, but she's strong beyond reason with muscles to spare and a pair of quads like tree trunks. How strong? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W5N4VViwA0 Have a look,] '''as she lifts up two other wrestlers to make herself 600 pounds and then jumps up and sits on Mayumi Ozaki.''' It's no wonder when she wrestles the crowds chant "''HIROYO MATSUMOTO DESTROY!''"
* Parodied by [[CHIKARA]] wrestler Hydra, who does the whole Giant schtick despite being 5' 6" and 140 pounds.
* Titanic Tim from the ''[[
** 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.
* 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.
* The late John Tenta had a good run at a giant archetype as Earthquake in the WWE, feuding with [[Hulk Hogan]] at the height of his career, eventually alongside the similarly gigantic Fred "Typhoon" Ottman.
* The Oddities, an entire stable of giant men managed by the much smaller Luna Vachon and the [[
* 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.
* 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.
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