Giant Gonzalez and his muscle suit

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Why did he wear it? it looks corny as hell, did they honestly expect anyone to believe it was his actual muscles? if not did they ever acknowledge it was a suit on air?

[Sajoa Moe]

Probably because he had almost no muscle tone to speak of, which, of course, was of the utmost importance in the WWF.

[sabuicide]

Yeah, he had no muscle tone. Watch his stretcher match with Sid. Sid dwarfs him.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Apr 3, 2014 11:48:55 GMT -5 Sajoa Moe said:

Probably because he had almost no muscle tone to speak of, which, of course, was of the utmost importance in the WWF.

When your gimmick is based off of how big you are... it is pretty important.

[Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks]

I was less put off by the faux muscles, and more by the giant airbrushed bush on the second version of his suit.

[jason1980s]

They spent so much time on doing the first fur outfit, only to go with the second outfit which saw the airbrushed fur. As crazy as the first outfit looked, the second was so much sillier.

As someone who watched WCW, I wonder why I still thought wrestling was real after seeing El Gigante suddenly look like someone who is supposed to be of the animal persuasion.

[Sir Woodrow]

I remember the first time I saw Wrestlemania IX when he came out all my younger brother said was "The naked guy sucks"

[Aceorton]

Little-known fact: The muscles were always airbrushed, but that was his real body hair poking through the first suit.

[Deleted]

I always assumed it was just to make him look like some sort of primal monster.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I once had a tshirt with Warrior's torso printed on the front, so it looked like I had his muscles. I was like 6, so it's slightly better than his suit, because he was a grown-ass man. I still don't have muscles, but at least I ditched the Tshirt made to look like I did......but I'd wear it if I had it too.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Apr 3, 2014 22:22:57 GMT -5 @wvguitar said:

I always assumed it was just to make him look like some sort of primal monster.

I think the earlier outfit was meant to make him some kinda sasquatch... since it had fur all over it...

[hargh]

At least they didn't paint on genetalia.

[Crappler El 0 M]

I recently saw a clip of one of his final appearances (maybe his last) where he comes out wearing regular clothes. If I recall, he wore jeans, a t-shirt, and a dark jacket. He came out to stop Harvey Wippleman and Adam Bomb from beating up a jobber.

[Sir Woodrow]

Apr 3, 2014 22:56:46 GMT -5 hargh said:

At least they didn't paint on genetalia.

But it made him look like a naked, sexless freak

[Joe Neglia]

Before this thread, I never realized he had two different outfits during his run. Anyone got a side-by-side shot of them for comparison?

[JTG Fan]

Apr 5, 2014 0:59:12 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Before this thread, I never realized he had two different outfits during his run. Anyone got a side-by-side shot of them for comparison?

[Mozenrath]

The first one looks cheesy, but the second one is just creepy as hell.

[CMWaters]

The second picture reminds me of when Big Show unmasked bald CM Punk.

[turkeysandwich]

Its weird how different his 2 action looked and neither replicated his bodysuit accurately. I guess the Jakks one is not too bad, but they didn't add the leg muscles.

[Hit Girl]

Instead of bringing him in as a fearsome heel (which he never really could be), he should have been introduced as a gentle giant who helps people when in need and only wants to be people's friends, but when provoked, he'll headbutt evildoers into oblivion.