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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2013 15:11:35 GMT -5
The answer is Vader.
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Post by KobashiChop on May 2, 2013 18:05:41 GMT -5
Dixieland Destroyer.
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Post by NOwave on May 2, 2013 18:24:11 GMT -5
Does Dusty rhodes count? If so, he's my vote. He's easily the most athletic of any of the nominees. BION, Big Dust was both an outstanding shortstop and defensive lineman at West Texas State University in the 1960s. He went on to briefly play minor league pro baseball, and turned down tryout offers with several NFL teams. Oldtimers from Amarillo, Texas(close to West Texas State) recall Dusty (Virgil Runnels) as the slickest fielding shortstop the Buffaloes ever had.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on May 2, 2013 20:25:21 GMT -5
Rikishi. As a kid, I used to wait for his flip sell every match.
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Post by usemeplease on May 2, 2013 20:25:41 GMT -5
Not mentioned: Rikishi and Matt Hardy
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Post by Joshie el Gato Rey on May 2, 2013 20:31:02 GMT -5
Roadblock
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Post by Throwback on May 2, 2013 23:36:43 GMT -5
needs more Dusty Rhodes and Andre
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2013 2:38:00 GMT -5
Thread needs a do-over with more options.
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Post by Heeltown, USA on May 3, 2013 3:25:08 GMT -5
Bam Bam has to be the answer, and I'll only consider Vader as another option. Those guys were big fat masses, but they didn't wrestle like it.
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Post by The OP on May 3, 2013 8:07:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2013 11:48:31 GMT -5
Does Dusty rhodes count? If so, he's my vote. He's easily the most athletic of any of the nominees. BION, Big Dust was both an outstanding shortstop and defensive lineman at West Texas State University in the 1960s. He went on to briefly play minor league pro baseball, and turned down tryout offers with several NFL teams. Oldtimers from Amarillo, Texas(close to West Texas State) recall Dusty (Virgil Runnels) as the slickest fielding shortstop the Buffaloes ever had. That's a very good answer. I usually don't think of him as a "big man" wrestler, and that's probably a sign of how good he was with it.
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Post by 543Y2J on May 3, 2013 13:50:55 GMT -5
Morishima is awesome
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Post by bob on May 3, 2013 14:52:16 GMT -5
Yokozuna - I've always been a huge fan of his
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2013 15:42:18 GMT -5
THE MASTADON!!!!!
I mean Vader
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on May 3, 2013 16:04:38 GMT -5
I always liked Rikishi's 360 sell of a lariat. Otherwise, my fav "fat" wrestler was either Bam-Bam Bigelow or Vader.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on May 3, 2013 17:05:01 GMT -5
I think Rikishi was very good. Big Boss Man was really good too, though to his credit he stayed in pretty good shape for most of the 1990s and beyond. He was mostly fat and obese during the 1980s.
Bam Bam Bigelow and Vader were both standouts as well. John Tenta was pretty good too.
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Post by bitteroldman on May 3, 2013 18:33:18 GMT -5
Started off normal size but blew up at the end of his career: "Playboy" Buddy Rose
Was always a large man: Mike Shaw, who worked as Makhan Singh in Stampede Wrestling, Norman the Lunatic in WCW and Bastion Booger in the WWF.
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Post by britishbulldog on May 3, 2013 18:51:36 GMT -5
Big Boss Man
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Post by efarns on May 3, 2013 20:44:52 GMT -5
To defend my choices a bit: I didn't consider Vader part of the category. I was trying to think of completely unathletic looking guys. Vader's time intjhe weightroom was as apparent as his extra gut.
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Post by willyjakes on May 3, 2013 22:01:38 GMT -5
Yokozuna, maybe not at his absolute heaviest....but even at 560 he put on passable matches.
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