Jim Cornette on The Fattest Wrestlers 

"Yokozuna was carrying so much weight. He was doing cardio walking to the car" - Jim Cornette

The McGuire Twins were surprise witnesses at the Simpsons trial of Chester J. Lampwick vs. Itchy & Scratchy Studis.

Giant Haystacks in England also should be mentioned, he was huge

Bruno Sammartino said no one believed Calhoun was as heavy as he was billed, so they had an official weigh in that revealed Calhoun was fourteen pounds heavier than he was billed!

I'm so glad Jim tells these stories, so that they don't get lost to history.

The most surprising part of the death of the McGuire Twin is that he died in a motorcycle accident and not from being 700 pounds.

The picture of the McGuire twins on bikes is iconic. After 30 years that is the only picture in the Guinness book that I remember vividly. Hell they became a shirt, a meme, etc.

Pretty soon Chris Jericho will qualify.

Benny had the weight loss surgery.... I got to know him by correspondence on the old Yahoo wrestling legends group... We were all saddened when he passed away.... He was such a nice man....

'They had to flap their arms so you could tell whether they were rolling or walking' 😁😂🤦🏾‍♂️ wow

The fact that happy Humphrey made it to 62 and new jack only made it to 58 is amazing to me

There was Cheeks on one of the first episodes of TNA. Under 6 foot but weighed over 600 pounds. Lasted one match where he was gassed walking to the ring, won his bout which probably lasted less than a minute and was never seen again.

Mabel aka Viscera aka Big Daddy V could surprisingly do a spinning heel kick despite his 500lb weight in the 90's.

Crusher Blackwell looked morbidly obese but was athletic as a cruiserweight. A true anomaly in wrestling

The artwork sells itself.

Yarborough was UFC 3. Faced 205 pound Keith Hackney, Keith knocked the shit out of him.

There was a Haystacks Calhoun reference on Raw this week to pop the younger viewers

Fatty Thomas, Big Daddy, The Klondikes and Giant Haystacks all big fellows from the UK.

" he had no weight to him he was just huge " - jim

I think they used the same pic of the McGuire Twins for several years in the Guinness Book. I recall seeing them on Phil Donahue's show in the 80s along with other so-called "freaks".

Marko Stunt would get lost behind one of these guys' moobs.

Well, after over 20 years i finally know who those two motorcycle guys were when Homer went buy obese clothes

Conrad Thompson does some amazing work for his size.

I think the logical fat guy gimmick these days is more the offensive lineman kind of size. So guys like Vader. They have a noticeable amount of flab on them but are also muscular and athletic and look like they could kick your ass. Or you can go sumo like Rikishi and Earthquake where they can still work a match but can incorporate a butt drop or splash into their offense and that's a protected finisher because of their size. The day of freak show wrestlers that make the odd appearance every few years makes no sense without the territory system. WWE isn't going to hire some fat guy to appear a few times and then disappear and bring him back a few years later.

I saw the McGuire Brother versus Jerry Lawyer and Gorgeous George, Jr. in Evansville, IN sometime around '72 or '73....

Old wrestling fan I knew saw Haystacks in 1970 up in Massachusetts and drank a few beers with him in the parking lot after the show. He asked Haystacks "How strong are you, really?" Haystacks set down his beer and casually deadlifted the front end of the car he'd been leaning against.

And then on Raw it just so happened that Shayna Bayzler referenced Haystacks Calhoun Love to see wrestling references in my wrestling

Giant Haystacks from the UK was 6ft 11 and weighed 685lbs.

Earthquake and Typhoon were up there in terms of weight back in the early 90’s.

BIG Sal E. Graziano of the FBI in ECW was huge.

Shelton Benjamin running up that ladder was the most athletically thing I ever seen a muscular guy do! It was impressive! So my vote it he was fast!

Ironically Billy McGuire was killed on his motorcycle in the late 70s. Benny lived into his 50s and died of heart failure (shocker)

I met Haystacks in 1969 at Collingswood N.J.he was driving a International truck, I was 18 yrs.old ,he was huge !

Viscera had a point in his career where he was the most immobile wrestler I have ever seen. I remember their was a backstage hardcore match from around the 24-7 era where 2 wrestlers brawled towards Viscera, Viscera body slammed one of them and then they wrestled away from Viscera.

This video got me thinking so I looked up Fred Ottman (Tugboat/Typhoon) and I honestly thought he had died years ago so I was pleasantly surprised to find out he's still alive

Earthquake, Typhoon, Vader, Bastion Booger, Mabel and Yokozuna are all Big Boys from the late eighties and up. :)

Anyone remember the episode of Space Ghost when Macho Man was Braks dad and talked about Haystacks calhoun?

On wwe 24/7 legends of wrestling on episode Jim Ross talked about The McGuire Twins using the whole shower stale

Yes. I've seen the 'Twins' live in the Portageville, MO National Guard armory.

Haystack Calhoun wasn't just big, he was super strong in real life, and was able to move Happy Humphrey easily around the ring, despite being outweighed by 200 lbs

According to Harley, Happy Humphrey wrestled at over 900 pounds once. Humphrey and Haystacks Calhoun coincidentally both died in 1989.

Earthquake, Yoko and Rikishi are my favourite 'big guys' all who could work, and were over. Earthquake is one of my all time favourites. Great wrestler and totally underestimated. Yoko is considered by those in the business as a great worker and he was over to me. Rikishi has gotten out of vogue but in his 2000's push he was great! He had one of my favourite Cage matches with Val Venis. Perhaps the most legendary big guy was Vader but he doesn't fit the 'big guy' moniker like Yoko or Mabel. I've also got a soft spot for Giant Haystacks and Viscera. Ones I never want to see again are the Bastion Booger or Abdullah. Abdullah is... bleurgh. It's what was wrong with wrestling.

Giant Heystacks and big daddy in the u.k Heystacks would go on to be Lock Ness in WCW

Eventually Jericho will literally break the walls down.

The Mighty Biggs Hagerstown Maryland HoPWF in 2000 or so. He was massive even as he crumbled under his own weight from a back injury(?). Met him once. Super nice.

Of course the first RI letter has a misspelling. Great job reppin the state Eric!

McGuire twins were referenced on The Office when Michael Scott did his Klumps impression.

Wow Cumberland Ri. Pawtucket here awesome to here someone else in my small state listening

Tenta was quite the light on his feet big guy.

There's a version of The Mcguire Twins in Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal Video".

One thing Bobby Heenan said that was so funny was in a match between Earthquake and Typhoon vs Money Inc, he argued how both Money Inc should be allowed to be in the ring at the same time with Earthquake or Typhoon because of their size to make it fair. lol

I always enjoy Jim cuttin a promo on WWE or AEW stooges but his old school wrestling stories are my favourite

What about Viscera, he was near 7ft and weigh close to 500 lbs?

" bring the midgets tonight, the kids are wrestling"- Jim Cornette 😂

McGuire Twins, Haystacks Calhoun, Yokozuna, Rikishi, Kevin Owens and Nia Jax are heavier than the entire NXT roster 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Chris Jericho the Walrus god beating others with a little bit of the blubber.

haha the picture reminds me of when bart simpson had the fat fantasy and was like "I wash myself with a rag on a stick"

I just missed seeing/meeting Yokozuna as he passed away a couple of weeks before he was due to wrestle here in Dundee. I have seen a couple of photos from around that time and he did look very big #RIPYokozuna

The NEW HAVEN COLISEUM I remember going there as a kids once a month for wrestling the best childhood memories!!!!

I remember a few years back I watched a youtube video titled "The 10 heaviest Wrestlers of all time" or something like that. Long story short Big Show was ranked like 9th or 10th, it blew my mind to discover these gigantic wrestlers

I remember a team of huge men called Kongs. Think it was in GWF

I thought Jim was going to say the dog faced pony soldier 😂💀💀💀

Even guys like Abdullah The Butcher he was less than 300lbs when he started

Reminds me of the couple of "wimmin" (their term) I lived next door to. They had to weigh at 300 lbs a piece and they doubled on a tiny motorcycle, it was so small and they covered up so much of I couldn't even tell what kind of bike they rode, I'd love to know because it must have had a hell of a motor. It was quite a sight! (...No way it was a Harley, probably a Triumph style Honda).

What about British wrestler Giant Haystacks aka loch Ness in wcw

Yeah the twins on bikes in the Simpsons when Lionel huts called surprised witness 😭

Remember crusher Blackwell ? From Stone Mountain Georgia he and haystack went at it on the TV on Saturday morning

Viscera with that singlet

I love learning all this stuff!

Back in the '40's I think there was a Man Mountain Dean but he wasn't as big as the later fat giants. I saw Haystacks Calhoun. He could work.

I met Benny McGuire when I was real young(Maybe at a carnival) he was sitting on a couch and people would come up to him and he would talk wrestling, I might have been 5 or 6 years old so I don't remember much more than that.

Wrestling In the 70s and early 80s was so different, now we have high productions, everyone Is doing flips and they are ripped but back then It was more.. casual or fun, these were simple dark arenas and guys that were Just big, that was the attraction, come see how big this guy Is or come see this guy wrestle a bear I bet the arenas stunk with some of those guys sweating and moving

I miss the really big guys. Earthquake was one my favourites as a kid

First ones that come to mind are Yokozuna & Mabel/Viscera. Then King Kong Bundy & Rikishi.

You gotta love the artwork 😂😂😂

First to come to mind were the McGuire, wasnt Harley race their handler back when he was coming up lol

Holy shit. I live in Cumberland RI so random

There was a Scottish wrestler called Loch Ness in WCW in the '90s, who was billed at 699lb. "That weasel face Jimmy 'Art promised he'd fix me a shot at Hulk Hogan!" There was also a guy in the Northeast, IWF or IWC, in the early '90s called The Bulldozer, who was billed at 555lb., he was very tall, and if not 555 probably weighed at least 450.

Haystacks was a staple when I was a lad in Pittsburgh.

Cumberland Rhode Island is where that bar Tim White owned is located.

The WWE actually did attempt to bring back the country bumpkin angle in the 80's. They had a guy dressed up like haystacks called Hillbilly Jim supposedly trained by Hulk Hogan. He had a successful run for a few years, and they brought in 2 more "Family" members named Uncle Elmer and Cousin Junior. Jim and Junior could move around alright for thier size, but Elmer just lumbered around in or out of the ring. All 3 seemed to have disappeared after Wrestlemania 3.

Don't forget Kamala, the Ugandan Vice President

Love Me some Jim Cornette. He is one of the only Managers I've never met. Still would LOVE to.

Now this is the content I subscribe for.

"JoJo the dog faced boy or Zippy the pinhead or whatever" Jim I'm fucking DEAD

Maybe not on the same scale (pun intended) as the names mentioned here, but I always think of The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon/Tugboat) when I think of "big guy" wrestlers.

don't forget mass transit lmao

Emmanuel Yarbourgh was UFC 3 . The sumo from UFC 1 was Teila Tuli Aka Taylor Wily . 😉

Weren't the twins in the Michael Jackson video for speed demon on moonwalker vhs?

Chris Taylor. Didn't live long, but arguably the most skilled of the superheavyweights.

I saw Haystacks Calhoun when I was a teenager when he tagged with Abe Jacobs in Seattle. I went to the wrestler's entrance aisle to see him and remembering thinking "my height, maybe slightly taller, 400 to 450 tops". He actually had a lot of muscle underneath. He probably got fatter during his career waiting for the hot tag from Jacobs. And, maybe he kept the horseshoe on when he was weighed and it weighed 150 pounds

I think Jim's right in that people started seeing through it. The fitness craze of the 80s and 90s probably didn't really help things either. It became more about muscles than just size. After that, big guys had to be able to move some. Granted, there were still plenty that weren't the marvels guys like Bam Bam, Vader, Blackwell, or Gang were, but they moved enough that they could believably beat people. Even Mabel, for all of his problems in the ring, could move around. Then over time that obsession started seeing the "fat" guys getting more or less phased out all together. Every now and then someone would make it to WWE, but it's become rare. I'm not sure anyone on the roster is even approaching 400 lbs.

No mention of Conrad Thompson??

Humphries, Calhoun, McGwires .. I mean in comparison, wrestlers like Big Daddy was almost like Mike Von Erich. And if you're going to go there, Bigelow, Kamala and Crusher Blackwell were up there as well.

Mid 80's wwf had Uncle Elmer who beside being fat really couldnt do anyhting

Great Antonio from Montreal.

Well, Kevin Owens is still in the wrestling business....😉

Mable in the 90s WWF..One Man Gang. Big Boss Man

I'm kind of new to the channel, what is best way to submit questions? I wonder if Vince put Dusty in polkadots in honor of Happy Humphrey?

Tugboat and Earthquake in the 80's/90's both were pretty huge guys on both axis and could move pretty well, unless my memory is completely shot to hell ...