What REALLY Happened To WWE's 16 Tallest Wrestlers Ever

Do you know what professional wrestling likes a lot? Tall people

And if you are tall and you want to be a professional wrestler, I would tell you to go to your local wrestling school right now

and in around about three months you will be pushed, even if you're not very good

If you are good, well, you're probably going to get signed. So using the rules of the internet, we here at WhatCulture did sit down

and we figured out who are the 16 tallest people ever to walk through the WWE hallways

and what the flump happened to them. I am Simon Miller, and let's find out

16 Big Cass at 6 foot 10. Now, of course, Big Cass was super successful down in NXT and on the main

roster with Enzo Amore. And never forget their debut on Raw. That place went totally, won't be

crazy for them, which is why it was totally stupid when WWE broke them up. This was Vince McMahon's

favorite thing to do. Oh my gosh, we have a hot tag team. Now let's start planning how we can make

them single stars. That's what happened to Big Cass in 2017. And it didn't really go that well

because one, nobody wanted to see Enzo Amore and Big Cass break up. And two, he had that very strange feud with Bryan Danielson

or Daniel Bryan as he was then. Like the match was actually quite good, but it just didn't really seem like we knew what to do with the big man

That's because there was absolutely zero plan. And then soon after this, he got released

Now Cass himself has talked about this. It was mostly down to some personal issues he was having

And I implore you to go listen to him on the Talk is Jericho podcast. He was absolutely getting into a bunch of trouble

when he had to sit down with Vince McMahon and everybody agreed, you need to go and get help

And that's what he did. He came back to AEW. He became a tag team champion alongside Ricky Saints or Ricky Starks

whatever the flub his name is nowadays. And that's why you should go and read his story

The man figured it out. These days, of course, you can find a mix of Brian Keith in AEW as Big Bill

And the man just rules. Plus, he's really tall. And apparently, you can't teach that

But we did put a man on the moon, so you just never know. Number 15, Kevin Nash at 6'10"

I mean, what can I really tell you about Kevin Nash that you don't already know? I mean, he was awesome back in WCW, and that didn't work out

When he did go to the World Wrestling Federation, he teamed up with Shawn Michaels, and around about five minutes, he was the WWF champion

And not just because he was tall, it's because the man just had something

And this run would have been totally fine as well, but Vince McMahon decided we should turn you into the next Hulk Hogan

So he zipped away all of his cool points, and we made him sell, we made him sell, we made him sell

Go and look at any picture of Nash. The dude is huge. Nobody wanted to see him getting beaten up

We wanted to see him do the beatings. That's why it didn't work. Of course, eventually, he would jump ship to WCW

where he was a part of the NWO, which also revolutionized the business. But he did jump back to the WWE in 2002

like it was okay before he had all those terrible leg and quad injuries

That essentially ended his career. He did actually have a long old run in TNA from about 2006 to 2011

And I suppose it's fine, but it didn't match up to what he'd done beforehand

Really, after all that, he went on the shoot interview scene as well before starting his podcast with Sean Oliver called Click This

And fair play to Nash. He will always tell you exactly how he sees it

Sometimes you're going to agree with him. Sometimes you're going to think he has an absolute loon

But he always finds a way to be pretty damn entertaining. Either way, when all is said and done, he will go down in the history books

Even if it's just as a meme. And somebody who was like, well, if you want me to lay down, you better pay me more

I love Kevin Nash. I think he's brilliant. and he once told me when I asked him for an interview

nobody wants to talk to you on your stupid YouTube show. He wasn't entirely incorrect

Number 14, Big John Stud at 6'10". The really interesting thing about Big John Stud

is that Andre the Giant wasn't particularly fond of him, mostly because he was a big dude

and Andre, like most wrestlers, was protective of his spot. So when another giant did come into the locker room

I think he was like, I better keep an eye on him. It's probably why at the first ever WrestleMania, it was Andre who eventually slammed Big John Stud

And you probably remember or you've heard of the Big John Studd challenge. That's all it was

Can you slam this guy? And around about 56,000 people weren't able to do it until Andre figured it out

I guess he was just a little bit stronger. John Studd was also a surprise winner of the 1989 Royal Rumble

And as Bruce Pritchard said on his podcast, Vince McMahon was ready to push that guy to the moon

Until he realized Big John Studd wasn't able to move as he once did. That thing got totally crushed

It also resulted in a massive row about the payoff from that Royal Rumble, which is when John did leave the company, although actually he did pretty well in TVs and movies

he even guest starred in the A-Team. That means nothing in 2025, but believe you me

if you walked onto that show in the 80s, you were big deal. Studd was also posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004

after he passed away in 1995 after issues with his kidney. He was only in his 40s, and I tell you, man, that is way too young

Number 13, The Undertaker at 6'10". I mean, this one, even more than Kevin Nash

If you know, you know. And if you don't know, you should probably go and watch a specific video about The Undertaker to learn

But if I was going to sum it up in headline form, if you want to tell me that the Deadman gimmick is the greatest gimmick of all time

well, I'd probably just sit there and nod like a dog. He also had an incredible run in the WWE because he went from 1990 all the way to 2020

And yes, he had that WrestleMania streak. And it was such a big deal. Most people will probably talk about the Brock Lesnar loss at WrestleMania 30 I mean here we are on the cusp of WrestleMania 42 and people are still debating it If you want my opinion I actually think WWE did use it to take Brock Lesnar to a next level

We've talked about it elsewhere. He probably retired from the ring at WrestleMania 36 after

the Boneyard match with AJ Styles. And it probably was the right time to do it because before that

there was everything with Goldberg and that crazy tag team bout in Saudi Arabia where life went

Oh, hello, Undertaker Kane, Shawn Michaels and Triple H. You probably think you are going to

have a good match but none of my watch these days the real life mark calloway has found a new lease

on life as well because he just does so many podcasts and he tells you so many stories and

of course the reason this is so gimmicky and cool is because when he was in character he never uttered

a peep he barely did one interview now you can't shut the guy up they say that in a positive way

he's very interesting he went into the hall of fame in 2022 and nobody would debate that

and the best part about the undertaker is that he is an old school wrestler who had a long career

and these days he seems perfectly happy. I shouldn't laugh, but it's actually quite depressing

You try and find somebody else like that, it's pretty flippin' tough. Number 12, Nathan Jones at 6'10"

The story of Nathan Jones kind of sums up everything that happened after the Attitude Era

where Vince McMahon was so desperate to get the business back to where it was, he would just find big guy after big guy after big guy

give them no time in developmental, call them up to the main roster, give them about a month before he was like

well this guy doesn't even know the fundamentals and everybody else around Vince McMahon was like

yes that's because you rushed him. That's exactly what happened to Nathan Jones as well because he

came in in 2002 and by 2003 he had already left. Now one it is because we had to stop anything we

were going to do because he wasn't ready when he just became the Undertaker's friend which was a

bit weird but also Nathan eventually realized much like Brock Lesnar the following year I don't want

to travel I don't want to do it anymore so he left. He walked away and he barely wrestled again

Talk about making the right choice, though, because he moved into Hollywood and basically played all these big man roles

And you can see him in Mad Max. You can see him in Hobbs and Shaw. You can see him in Troy

You can see him in Mortal Kombat. And you can see him in Ricky Snicky, however you pronounce that movie, that had John Cena in it

But of course, it also means he's worked with Brad Pitt. He's worked with The Rock. This dude has essentially had an incredible career in the movies

And he didn't have to take one bump. He has talked about this quite a lot as well. And he seems over the moon, which was not the case back at that WrestleMania

where he was indeed meant to tag with The Undertaker. And literally, almost at the last minute

WWE just changed their minds and it was a handicap match instead

That's when Nathan Jones ran to the ring and he slipped over. I feel sorry for the man, to be honest with you

He probably could have been a right success story, but if you don't give anybody time in school

how the hell do you expect them to pass the exam? Number 11, Currigan at 6'11"

Now, you probably remember this man in one of two roles from the WWE. One, he was the interrogator of the Truth Commission

or he was in the oddities as Kurrigan, a very strange team throughout the Attitude Era

If you go back and watch it now, I have no idea what that was meant to be. Now, these two personas were totally different

but if we do go what people have said about the real-life Robert Maylitt, he is well closer to what he was playing

when he was in the oddities. Everybody just says he's the nicest guy in the world

He stopped wrestling in 2011 and maybe he saw what Nathan Jones had done because he did want to follow suit

and he's totally smashed it too. Do you remember this character, the uber whatever it's called from 300 that was flipping currigan he was also in sherlock holmes

the immortals hercules and deadpool 2 and while every single time he does play a big guy or a big

monster or somebody meant to be intimidated by this is like the dream career after you are done

with sports entertainment because you get to continue to perform and you don't have to worry

that your body is a little bit broken up and again go and read the few interviews he has done

he has a smile on his face and he's skipping around the houses more of this please number 10

Matt Morgan at 6'11". So Matt Morgan is probably better known for everything he did in TNA as

opposed to WWE, which is very strange because he was like Vince McMahon's perfect wrestler

But once again, he got stuttered with a terrible gimmick because he had to stutter. I mean

can you imagine anyone doing that in 2025? No, you can't. Matt was also another guy that was

around in that 2005 period where nobody got a chance, but eventually he did leave. He went to

New Japan, got loads better before he jumped back to TNA in 2007, and he actually had a pretty decent

run. He was there for six years and became a two-time tag team champion before he decided to

leave and after he semi-retired he got into politics which is either a good or a bad idea

depending on how you look at it. As I can tell as well his last match came in 2019 and ever since

then he's been chilling. Now he did make an appearance in TNA in 2022 so you never know

and while some people have said he could be a Royal Rumble surprise in the future I very much doubt that. Listen Matt Morgan had a pretty decent career but it kind of feels like

It's been left in the past. So you could probably call him untapped potential in terms of what he was able to do in WWE

But I wouldn't put that on him. Let me just repeat myself. Pushed too fast

Given a stupid gimmick. What was he meant to do? Number nine, Jackson Andrews at 6 foot 11

So you probably don't remember this guy at all. But back in 2010, Jackson Andrews was indeed the one time bodyguard of none other than Tyson Kidd

It seemed like it was going right for a few weeks when Vince McMahon woke up one day and just decided, nope, I've changed my mind

Weeks after this Mark Henry absolutely decimated him like he may as well have pulled his arms off when poor Jackson did get the kiss of death he was told sorry pal you have to go back to OVW and any time somebody got sent back to developmental well it was rare you ever saw them on the main roster again

That's true, too, because soon after this, he did get released in 2011. And there may be some information out there, but I couldn't find it

I don't really think he had that many matches. His last one did go against Mason Ryan, the Hoot, which was quite funny

because it was like one big guy beating another big guy. And both people's pushes weren't going to be handled very well

And then very worryingly, he had a domestic issue with Rosa Mendes after Rosa had pushed charges

You don't 100% know what's happening there. But as a PSA, don't do that

For goodness sake, just be a nice person. Number eight, Eli Cottonwood at seven feet tall

So all you need to do today if you'd like to understand the WWE career of Eli Cottonwood

is go to the second season of NXT when it was a game show and listen to the promo he had to cut

This is when the contenders would be given a subject and they had to talk about it for about a minute

and this time it was moustaches and old Eli here started saying

you can't be a WWE superstar unless you have a moustache when he realized he didn't have a moustache

and maybe it was time to grow one. Very sadly, this did do the rounds

and everybody said it was absolutely embarrassing. I disagree, it's laugh out loud funny

That's what wrestling's meant to do. WWE didn't agree with this though and he was never given a second chance

Although in 2012, he was put with Bray Wyatt for a while and that could have worked

when old Cottonwood got released. Actually, it was Eli that asked for this in 2012

I think because he felt he needed to hit reset. And in 2016, he retired for good

And in between those dates, well, he's another one. I don't think he worked that much. Instead, he did start a yoga studio and began a wrestling company called FHW in 2016

That thing only lasted for a year. My favorite thing about it is that even though Eli Cottonwood was seven foot, WWE

had to say he was seven foot one. Because they can't help themselves

If they can exaggerate, they always will. Number seven, The Big Show at seven feet tall

So whether we're talking about The Big Show in WWE, Paul White in AEW, or The Giant in WCW

I think we can all agree that he is a future Hall of Famer. If for nothing else

who had more heel turns, back-to-face turns than this guy? But at one point, I'm not kidding

he was literally doing it every week. What a run he did have as well, because he was the WCW World Champion in about a day

when he came across the WWE and had a mammoth push where he also became a World Champion

And even though he's been more of a background contender in AEW. Everybody seems to really like him. That's a pretty cool thing to have. Everybody

forgets as well that he actually left WWE in 2007 to pursue a boxing career when, understandably

the big show necessarily didn't like being punched in the face. So he returned in 2008. In case you

are keeping track, he did join All Elite Wrestling in 2021, where again, he's still there. So he has

to be doing okay. But in the future, of course, he'll come back to WWE because he does need to go

into that Hall of Fame. I don't think anybody would begrudge him. These days, it feels like he is

mostly in an agent behind the scenes role and he also has some really bad knees and the reason i

bring that up because people always throw insults at wrestlers that struggle to walk we need to 180

that man they deserve nothing but our respect they couldn't have given more to pro wrestling

number six shanky at seven feet so shanky was another giant when in 2022 the decision was made

that he should be teamed up with jinder mahal and shanky would dance then jinder mahal would get mad

at him dancing and it was one of the weirdest pairings of all time. Very sadly this is actually

something that WWE has done a lot. Remember Lord Tensai? How did he end up? He teamed up with a

dancing dinosaur. The great Khali was the same and the writing was on the wall as soon as Triple H

took over because even though Shanky actually took on Gunther at that Indian pay-per-view that WWE

did do, around about one week later Shanky was shown the door so that man was never given a chance

as soon as we had the new WWE. And the interesting thing with Shanky is that he's only wrestled twice since

unless there is more information out there that I can't find. But I think he's still only 33 years old

which is nothing in wrestling terms. So if he is out there getting more experience

I doubt he would ever come back to WWE. But you may not have seen the last of it

Also, even if he turned WWE down, could you blame him? He was a giant, giant man

And he was reduced to being like, I don't know, Jinder Mahal's annoying friend

And that one is just really, really strange. What are you going to do? I guess you've got to take the creative and just do the best with it that you can

Number five, The Great Khali at 7'1". This ties into what we were just talking about

Because when The Great Khali was first brought in, not only was he beating The Undertaker and becoming the world champion

he was pitched as the, oh my gosh, you're never going to be able to take this guy down. And then a few years later, he was farting with Natalya and doing a kiss can

I also think they called him the Playboy or something ridiculous. I mean, it's utterly stupid

People also forget that he did return to WWE at Battleground 2017 after the Punjabi prison match to help Jinder Mahal defeat Randy Orton

I don't know whether it was planned or whether it was not planned, but it was the great Khalid that took the world title and started going, oh my gosh, I've done it

And obviously Jinder looked really mad. If WWE did plan to do something like this, well, surprise, surprise, it went absolutely nowhere and it was just really weird

He also showed up in the greatest ever Royal Rumble in 2018 just so we could do that spot where it's like, oh my gosh, who's going to be able to throw him out

And actually, he did get inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2021. That one went right over my head

In terms of what he is doing now he is a massive star in India to the point he can even walk down the street without being recognized So in terms of overall career that guy actually is considered a goat Fair play to him Number four the Giant

Silver at seven foot two. Now Giant Silver was also in the oddities from 1998 to 1999. And given

that Currigan was in that group too, has to be one of the tallest stables of all time. And as you can

hear in my voice, Giant Silver was even taller than his mate. He only started wrestling in 1997

That's probably why he did get released soon after this. Although he did go to CMLL, he did go to New Japan, where he was just booked like a big guy

And sure, his skills were limited, but due to his size, he got over with those crowds

Amazingly, in 2003, he actually joined Price, meaning he was now an MMA fighter

And he left that career with a win-loss record of two wins and six losses

which I actually think is pretty damn decent. And do you know how he got both those victories via submission

So he wasn't even just smacking people in the face. As far as I can tell, he's not had a match since 2010

so I have to imagine he is done with wrestling. And if you really want to see how tall he was

just go back and watch SummerSlam 1998. It's absolutely ridiculous. He towers over everyone

Number three, Omos at seven foot three. Now the biggest thing, not a pun, I want to say about Omos

is that he is the nicest guy ever. Anytime I've got to interview him

he is just a happy dude. And that is more important than wrestling. That's more important than wins and titles

and all of that stuff. It costs nothing to be nice. His run with WWE as well has been so strange

because under Vince McMahon, he got pushed and pushed and pushed. And then when Triple H took over

well, he magically appeared at that battle royal after WrestleMania in 2024

Then he had that small excursion to nowhere, and now it does seem like he's going to go down to AAA and do some stuff

But he's never consistent, which isn't his fault. I think we should book him more

He's truly massive as well if you've never met him. And don't forget, he did have that Brock Lesnar match at another WrestleMania

I thought that was fun for what it was. And who doesn't want to see a giant guy beat F5

Well, Omos probably didn't enjoy it, but what are you going to do? In terms of WWE as well, we really haven't seen him since that Raw Battle Raw after WrestleMania 40

But I want to make it very clear, which you can figure out from where he is in this list, he is genuinely one of the biggest dudes that has ever walked through WWE, which is saying something

So if you ever can go to a meet and greet, I would, then you would marvel at the man's size

Number two, Andre the Giant at seven foot four. Andre the Giant is surely the most famous big man ever

And not only did he travel the world just being a huge celebrity, but he helped put wrestling and the WWF on the mat

Don't forget what he did at WrestleMania 3. That's an all-time moment. By the time the late 80s rolled around, though

he was struggling so much with wrestling that travel was just absolutely wearing him down

And that's one of the reasons why these days, if you do go and watch later clips of Andre, you do not understand how good he is

Try and go to the early 80s or even the late 70s. The dude was a marvel because, of course, he was a giant

and yet he moved like a ballerina. It did mean that he died long before he should

Certainly sadly passed away in 1993 in Paris, but the legacy that he did leave was never going to be forgotten

And sure, some people say he wasn't really a legitimate 7'4". I don't even care, man. He is worthy of being at the top of any list

A lot of that could come down to the fact as well, though, that he did have so many health issues that his height did go down

This is all statistics. This is all numbers. Every single person that's even at least a little bit affiliated with wrestling knows the name of Andre the Giant

And when you get into a business like this, that's exactly the legacy that you want to leave

Under the Giant, he's one of the GOATs. Number one, Giant Gonzalo is at 7'7"

I don't know whether he was a legitimate 7'7", but go and watch his WrestleMania 9 match with The Undertaker

And good grief does he tower over Mark Calloway. You may not notice that, though

because in terms of WrestleMania matches The Undertaker had, this is absolutely the very worst one

It's pretty damn bad. It doesn't help as well that he is wearing the strangest costume ever

Like, he must have been a relatively big dude, but he has, like, this strange overall on with hair stuck to it and muscles drawn on

If you could help me with that, dear watcher, I would massively appreciate it in the comments. Well, kind of sum this up is that he did debut at the 1993 Royal Rumble, and then by October, the WWF did leave him go

All of this after Vince McMahon had seen him in WCW and gone, oh, I could definitely do something with that guy

Turned out he was totally wrong. Back in World Championship Wrestling, he was called El Guiante 2

And after all this, he did go to war and New Japan. And once again, they loved him

Because all the fans would just look up to him and go, ooh, are amazing. He too was able to do lots of TV shows and movies after this

Just because who has a size like that guy? And of course, do you want to know how tall WWE built him once

Eight feet. I mean, that is so stupid. Why do we believe it? But I did because I'm an idiot

He was somebody else that very sadly died way too soon. Because he was only 44 when he passed away

And it came from diabetes. and I would assume this did come down to the fact he was so big

and the body wasn't working the way that it was meant to. So when you do remember that

he managed to carve out a pretty good career for himself, even if he did have two left feet

Who the flub cares, man? That guy went and did it. Now, of course, please do share any memories you have

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