Wrestling today is a small man’s sport. Athletic wrestlers like AJ Styles have changed how people look at professional wrestling and the giant monsters from yesteryear would never work in today’s world. When a giant man shows up, fans normally turn on them and refuse to even take notice. However, it wasn’t always like that.

When Hulk Hogan was champion, WWE brought out bigger and heavier challenges for him to overcome, and the fans loved it. While there have been extremely large men in professional wrestling, with at least one advertised at 800 pounds and a tag team at 600 pounds each, WWE has been careful to only hire certain stars for health reasons. Here are the heaviest wrestlers in WWE history.

29 Bronson Reed Is The New Australian Monster

Weighing In At 330 lbs

Bronson Reed finally started hitting his peak in WWE in 2024 when he showed on the main roster what a monster he really is. Before arriving in WWE, he worked on the indie wrestling scene in Australia and also got some time in Pro Wrestling NOAH, PWG in America, and PROGRESS Wrestling. He finally earned WWE’s attention in 2019 and signed on, making his debut in NXT. It was there that Reed won the NXT North American Championship. beating Johnny Gargano for the title.

WWE released him in 2021, and he went on to work in NJPW under the name Jonah, working to reestablish himself. After a stop in Impact Wrestling in 2021, he finally returned to WWE in 2022 and went straight to the main roster, where he started feuding with Dexter Lumis. Despite winning the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal that year, he mostly drifted in and out of feuds until WWE started turning him into an unstoppable monster in 2024, which fits his 330-pound frame.

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28 Hulk Hogan Was The Monster Babyface

Weighing In At 330 lbs

It seems almost hard to believe, since he has surrounded himself with giants like Kevin Nash, Andre the Giant, and more over the years, but Hulk Hogan is a really big WWE giant. At the time that Hogan was on top of the WWE, he was standing 6 feet 7 and weighed 330 pounds. He was a real-life superhero in wrestling.

But, he needed to look like an underdog, so WWE kept bringing in giants like John Studd, King Kong Bundy, and eventually Andre the Giant, all of whom made Hogan look that much smaller. However, he was never small and his height and weight matched up to his enormous pythons.

27 Kurrgan Was The Giant Odditie

Weighing In At 330 lbs

To really understand how powerful Hulk Hogan was, he weighed the exact same as Kurrgan from The Oddities. Originally part of Don Callis’ Truth Commission, Kurrgan went on to become a comedy act with The Oddities in the Attitude Era, a group of misfit giants with Kurrgan as the biggest of them all. However, while he was 6 foot 11, he was the exact same weight as Hogan, who was four inches shorter.

Despite this, WWE sold him as a giant, although one who never had the level of success as other giants in WWE history.

26 Blackjack Mulligan Was The Big Tough Texan

Weighing In At 340 lbs

Blackjack Mulligan was the patriarch of the Mulligan family, which included names like Barry Windham, Kendall Windham, Bray Wyatt, and Bo Dallas. While Barry and Kendell were both big like their dad, neither reached the weight of the Blackjack – one of WWE’s original giants. He debuted in 1967 and had his most successful years in the 1970s when he and Blackjack Lanza won the WWE tag titles as well as various titles in the NWA.

He also had a small stint in the 1980s where he teamed with another WWE giant, working under a mask as Big Machine next to Andre the Giant’s Giant Machine.

25 Umaga Was The Samoan Giant

Weighing In At 350 lbs

When it comes to WWE giants, there are a lot of members of the Anoa’i wrestling family from Samoa on the list. While he was not as big as people like Yokozuna or Rikishi, Umaga was still a giant among other WWE superstars when he worked in WWE. Umaga was 6 foot 4, but he checked in at 350 pounds and was booked as a monster in WWE.

He started out as a tag team wrestler in 3-Minute Warning with Roman Reigns’ brother Rosey. However, his biggest success was as Umaga, where he worked in WWE from 2006-2009 and even had the WrestleMania match with Bobby Lashley that involved Donald Trump and Vince McMahon. Umaga tragically died of a heart attack at the age of 36.

24 Ivar Is One Half Of The Viking Raiders

Weighing In At 350 lbs

Ivar has been associated with his tag team partner, Erik, for most of his career. Formerly known as War Machine and going by the names Hanson and Rowe, the tag team made its name in Ring of Honor and New Japan Professional Wrestling. They won the IWGP tag team titles twice and the ROH tag team titles once. They then got a chance to move on to WWE in 2018 and started in NXT as the War Raiders. They changed it to The Viking Experience and finally The Viking Raiders.

While Erik is strong, he is 100 pounds lighter than his tag team partner. At 350 pounds, Ivar can do things people half his weight struggle with. He can go to the top buckle and hit a back flip onto opponents. That helped him tremendously when Erik was injured in 2023. Erik has still never returned from his injury and Ivar has shown his dominance in singles matches since then, although he is mostly a mid-card wrestler on his own, even with his major size advantage over most people.

23 Nathan Jones Was The Big MMA Fighter

Weighing In At 370 lbs

Nathan Jones was a giant wrestler whom Vince McMahon and WWE had big plans for when they brought him to the company in 2002. At 6 foot 11 and 370 pounds, he was a Strongman from 1993 to 1998 and then fought in MMA for Pride Fighting Championships before becoming a professional wrestler. However, despite his size and strength, and his experience as a shoot fighter, he was a terrible professional wrestler.

WWE signed him in 2002 and gave him a pairing with Undertaker to help his career take off. It didn’t work, and he went back to OVW to train more. He returned in late 2003, had very little success, and then retired from wrestling.

22 Big John Studd Was The 80s Monster Heel

Weighing In At 384 lbs

In the 1980s, Andre the Giant was the one true giant in WWE. However, someone that big needs another giant to act as his nemesis and WWE brought in Big John Studd to fill that role. Studd was well over 100 pounds lighter than Andre, but he was almost as tall, at 6 foot 10. The two ended up having a major feud at the first WrestleMania where they fought for a briefcase of money in a Bodyslam Challenge match that Andre won.

Part of the Heenan Family, Studd was a true star when Hulkamania started, but after his feud with Andre, he slowly ended his career in 1986. He did have a short return in 1988-1989 but finally left for good after that.

21 Typhoon Was A Natural Disaster

Weighing In At 384 lbs

Sadly, Fred Ottman’s career will almost always be known for his time as Shockmaster in WCW, which mostly ended when he tripped and fell on his way out for his introduction. However, before that, he worked in WWE as Typhoon (and Tugboat before that).

He started out as a babyface that Hogan kayfabe trained, but when he turned heel and joined Earthquake as the Natural Disasters, he saw his greatest success in WWE where he won the WWE tag team titles. Sadly, after the Shockwave event, his career wound down.

20 Giant Silva Was An Oddity

Weighing In At 385 lbs

The biggest WWE giant in The Oddities is Giant Silva. However, he was also the one who was the least useful in the ring as a wrestler. A former basketball player, Silva was 7 foot 2 and 385 pounds and joined WWE in 1997 as a part of The Oddities.

He mostly spent his time in the corner while Kurrgan and Golga (formerly Earthquake) wrestled. His only real match came at SummerSlam 1998 when he teamed with Kurrgan and Golga to beat Kai En Tai. He only returned to WWE one more time in 1999, and he finished his career in CMLL and NJPW.

19 Braun Strowman Is The Monster Among Men

Weighing In At 385 lbs

Braun Strowman got his start as a Strongman competitor and won the 2012 Arnold Amateur Strongman Championships. At 385 pounds, he had massive strength and kept competing in these competitions until WWE came calling in 2013. After he finished his training, he made his major debut as part of the Wyatt Family, debuting as a partner to Erick Rowan, Luke Harper, and Bray Wyatt in 2015. He was mostly a side member of the group despite his massive size at 385 pounds.

Things changed in 2016 when Brayun was drafted to Raw and split up from The Wyatt Family. As the giant Monster Among Men, he began destroying smaller competitors and made his build as a monster heel. His feud with Roman Reigns made him a star as he showed off great feats of strength, including lifting cars. At WrestleMania 36, Braun finally reached the top when he beat Bill Goldberg for the Universal Championship. WWE released him in 2021, but he returned one year later and is still a top WWE star.

18 Bam Bam Bigelow Was The Athletic Giant

Weighing In At 390 lbs

One of the best of the giants in WWE when it comes to his ability to do more than just power movies was Bam Bam Bigelow. Bam Bam was only 6 foot 4, but he checked in at 390 pounds and was a mountain of a man. Not only that, but he did things other men his size couldn’t do. He went to the top buckle and he could fly. He was also very trusted by WWE.

While he wasn’t a champion in WWE, he was the man chosen to work the main event at WrestleMania with NFL star Lawrence Taylor, and he walked Taylor through a decent match. Bigelow had bigger success in ECW and WCW, but he was still a popular and successful figure in WWE history.

17 Bastion Booger Was The Disgusting Giant

Weighing In At 400 lbs

Easily one of the worst giant wrestlers to ever work in WWE, Bastion Booger was a 6 foot 1 400 pound wrestler who also worked in WCW as Norman the Lunatic. In WCW, he carried around a teddy bear and his manager Teddy Long always threatened to re-institutionalize him if he didn’t follow his orders. He ended up as a babyface, feuded with Kevin Sullivan, and even got world title shots against Ric Flair.

However, in WWE, he became Bastion Booger and was humiliated time and time again with too-small singlets and portrayed as a gluttonous wrestler. He lost almost every match and feud he was involved in.

16 Omos Is WWE’s Modern-Day Giant

Weighing In At 400 lbs

The newest big man in WWE is Omos, and the company has presented him as a dominating monster, no matter who he faced. He has made cruiserweights look like nothing and made big men like Drew McIntyre look small in comparison.

Omos started out as a backstage presence during Shane McMahon’s Raw Underground segments, an enormous man standing 7-3. When that ended, WWE threw him onto TV as AJ Styles’ monster bodyguard and the two won the tag team titles easily. Omos weighs in at 400 lbs, the heaviest superstar on WWE’s main brands at present time, and works now with MVP as his manager.

15 Odyssey Jones Is The Latest WWE Big Man To Join The Fray

Weighing In At 405 lbs

The largest man in WWE in 2024 is easily Odyssey Jones. He weighs in at 405 pounds, which is five pounds heavier than Omos, who was signed the same year that WWE brought in Jones. However, while Omos has been part of the main roster for a few years now, Odyssey didn’t make it up to the main roster until five years after his signing. Before joining WWE, Jones was a football player for the Syracuse Orange, but he ended up ending his career there thanks to a leg injury in 2016.

Odyssey Jones signed with WWE in 2019 and began training with the company. He showed his strength when he set a record 800-pound trap bar deadlift at the WWE Performance Center. He wrestled his first match that year using his real name against Dexter Lumis. He mostly disappeared until he showed up with his new name and worked his first televised match in 2021. His return ended in 2022 thanks to an injury, but when he came back, he got more TV time and then moved up to Raw in 2024, where he worked with New Day.

14 Mark Henry Was A Champion Weightlifter

Weighing In At 412 lbs

When compared to someone like Omos or Andre the Giant, Mark Henry looked much smaller than he really was. In reality, Henry is not only the World’s Strongest Man but also one of the heaviest wrestlers in WWE history. Henry stands 6-2 and weighed in at an average weight of 412 lbs in his wrestling days.

Henry is below 400 lbs now, but in his days as an active competitor, he was responsible for amazing feats of strength and finally rose to the top as a dominant world champion. At his size and weight, he could run over just about any challenger placed in front of him.

13 The Great Khali Was A Giant World Champion

Weighing In At 419 lbs

When The Great Khali arrived in WWE, the company positioned him as a top star. The former Punjab Police officer came in at 7-1 while weighing in at 419 lbs. At that size, WWE did what they always do with giants and put him in the ring against Undertaker.

Khali not only beat Undertaker, but he won the world championship in his second year in the company. While most fans dismissed Khali because of his lack of wrestling skills, he ended up as a WWE Hall of Fame member in the 2021 class. He recently made an appearance at WWE’s live event in India where he claimed he wanted one more match.

12 Giant Gonzalez Was A Giant Undertaker Enemy

Weighing In At 419 lbs

Much like The Great Khali a decade later, WWE tried to make Giant Gonzalez a star by putting him against Undertaker. Similar to Khali, Gonzalez was also not a very good wrestler and only used his massive size to develop a ring presence. Unlike Khali, Gonzalez failed miserably in WWE.

His match with Undertaker is one of the worst WrestleMania matches of all time and he left WWE after just one year. Gonzalez was one of WWE’s tallest wrestlers ever at 8ft tall and he weighed 419 lbs, although WWE billed him at 460.

11 Rikishi Was A Samoan Dynasty Giant

Weighing In At 425 lbs

Rikishi took a while to find his spot in WWE, despite having the pedigree of the Samoan Dynasty behind him. After a tag team role in the Headshrinkers and gimmicks as Fatu and The Sultan, he finally found his place as the dancing big man, Rikishi.

The gimmick helped Rikishi earn enshrinement into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015, despite never rising above the mid-card. Rikishi only stood 6-1, but his average weight in WWE was a heavy 425 lbs. His sons carry on the family name, although their combined weight is 70 lbs lighter than their dad’s total weight.

10 Gorilla Monsoon Was A ’70s Monster Heel

Weighing In At 440 lbs

Most fans know Gorilla Monsoon from his days as the voice of WWE, working alongside Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and Jesse “The Body” Ventura. He called some of the biggest matches in the ’80s while Hulk Hogan was raising the company to new heights. Later, in the Attitude Era, he was an authority figure.

However, before all that, he was a professional wrestler in the ’60s and ’70s. While he started as a babyface, he realized the money was in being a heel monster and Gorilla Monsoon was born. He worked as a top heel in WWE, feuding with Bruno Sammartino. At his largest weight, Monsoon was billed at 440 pounds.