Boards.ie PW (Favourite) "Big Man" Tournament

ShagNastii

Alright lads they have been coming quick and fast lately with the trio of IC, Hardcore and European championship tournaments. Hopefully they haven't become tiresome. Sense would probably make the WWE Title tournament the next one to be done but since when have the IWC shown any sense.

Boards.ie PW (Favourite) "Big Man" Tournament

I present a motley crue of big men. We'll wittle them down to see who is going to be classed the best big man in the view of PW boardsies. Have picked 32 I believe were marketed like a hoss. Where there size (be that height or weight) was always something that stood out. Excluded a few as I think although quite sizable it was never about their size (E.g Hogan, Lesner) and others that probably wouldn't have lasted (E.g Kurrgan, Ron Reese)

1. Hillybilly Jim
2. Big John Studd
3. Big Bossman
4. The Great Kahli
5. Rusev
6. Bruiser Brody
7. Bam Bam Bigalow
8. Bradshaw (JBL)
9. One Man Gang/ Akeem
10. Mike Awesome
11. Umaga
12. Abdullah The Butcher
13. Diesel/ Kevin Nash
14. Undertaker
15. Mark Henry
16. Abyss
17. King Kong Bundy
18. Sid Vicious/ Justice
19. Albert/ Lord Tensei
20. Giant Gonzalez
21. Kamala
22. Rikishi
23. Earthquake
24. Tugboat/Typoon
25. Stan Hansen
26. Mabel/Visera/Big Daddy V
27. The Giant/The Big Show
28. Andre The Giant
29. Kane
30. Matt Morgan
31. Big Van Vader
32. Yokozuna

Your two cents? Any terrible omittion on my part? Will crack on later on this evening or tomorrow morn.

Insect Overlord

Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks?

ShagNastii

I'd think pre-80s stuff is often an unknown.

Turtyturd

Would have Samoa Joe in there considering there are guys like Bossman/Albert/Umaga in there.

ShagNastii

Will latch Joe onto one of the matches. A worthy entrant.

Moneymaker

Great idea.

Anyone 300lbs+ qualifies imo.

ShagNastii

Right so round one, first to four. Going to try bang through the first round so I'm doing two fights per post.

Tugboat/Typoon/Shockmaster
"Disaster Tugjob"



VS


Mabel/Viscera/Big Daddy V
"King Repackage"






AND




Abdullah The Butcher
"Forking Look at his Forehead"



VS


Diesel/Kevin Nash
"Big Daddy Cool"

First to four. Good Luck. Vote for your favouite maybe give a reason why.

Whosthis

Tugboat and Diesel

JP Liz V1

Should the likes of Batista and Luke Gallows (Doc) be on the list?

brianregan09

Typhoon and the butcher ooooosh

JP Liz V1

Big Daddy V and Diesel

Hashtag_HEEL

Tugboat and Abbie

Garseys

Tugboat and Oz

D.Q

Viscera and Abdullah

Insect Overlord

Big Daddy V and Big Daddy Cool.

Griever931

Viscera and Kevin Nash.

Necro

Viscera and Diesel

Moneymaker

Abstaining from the first as I think both of them sucked.

Diesel wins the 2nd round. He was a solid big man wrestler and had good matches with HBK, Razor etc. Good on the mic too.

Bounty Hunter

If it was 2 of 4 it'd be both of the 2nd two but as it is big titty V and Kevin Nash for me fein

gerrybbadd

Big Daddy V and Diesel

ShagNastii

Sickened that Big Daddy V (was a guy I would have loved to have seen go far) falls to Tugboat but rules are rules. First to four.

Next two matches.

Stan Hansen
"Laaaaaaarrrrrriiiiiiiaaaatooooooo"


Vs

Abyss
"TNA Taker"





AND



Bradshaw (JBL)
"Wrestling Gawd"


VS


Umaga
"U-man-ga"

Two bouts first to four.

gerrybbadd

Abyss and JBL for me here (Although was tough to choose between JBL and Umaga)

Necro

Abyss anyways. Second one is a tough one.... JBL...just.

Angron

Abyss and JBL.

Bounty Hunter

JBL and Stan Hansen for the win

Sin Eater

Stan Hansen

and

Bradshaw

chopperbyrne

Stan Hansen and JBL for me.

Moneymaker

Hansen, I love a good lariat. Never been an Abyss fan.

JBL, I liked his run as champion.

ShagNastii

The cowboys advance. Two brilliant performers in Abyss and Umaga get eliminated. One last TNA guy to big the good fight, he's up next.

One Man Gang/ Akeem
“Jive so Bro”


Vs



Mike Awesome
“ONS Awesomeness”






AND



Bam Bam Bigalow
“Beast from the East”



Vs


Matt Morgan
“The Bluepaint for Big Guys”

Two decent bouts. First to four.

Angron

Awesome and Bam Bam.

Sin Eater

One Man Gang

and

Bam Bam Bigalow.

Two of my favourites when I was but young.

Necro

Mike Awesome and Matt Morgan.

gerrybbadd

Awesome & Bam Bam

Omackeral

Mike Awesome and Bam Bam Bigelow. Awesome was like a Cruiserweight at times and Bigelow was too. Both had great looks also.

Whosthis

One Man Gang and Bam Bam

ShagNastii

Awseome and Bam Bam advance. Two big guys who showed it wasn'y just the cruisers that could fly. Two fantastic bouts next.

Andre The Giant
“The Original Big Man”




VS




Yokozuna
“The Orient’s Samoan Bulldozer”




AND



Earthquake/The Shark/Golga
“The Natural Disaster”



VS




Kamala
“The Ugandan Giant”


First to four.

Sin Eater

Andre

and

Earthquake

Angron

Andre and Kamala.

gerrybbadd

Yoko & Earthquake

Bounty Hunter

Again would a gone for the 2 in the 1 (first) match if possible but as is Andre & kamala

Whosthis

Andre and Earthquake

Moneymaker

Harsh draw for Yoko. He has no chance against Andre though. THE big man.

Kamala. Earthquake sucked.

Angron

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

Again would a gone for the 2 in the 1 (first) match if possible but as is Andre & kamala

Aye, if he'd been against either of the other two Yoko would have had my vote.

JP Liz V1

Andre and Earthquake

ShagNastii

Andre steamrolls Yoko whilst Earthquake and Kamala joust with out with the Canadian coming out on top. Next up a couple of Hall of Famer take on two agile fatties.

(Psycho) Sid Justice/Vicious
“Break a Leg”







VS



Big John Studd
“BIG John Studd”




AND


Hillybilly Jim
“Country Boy can survive”




VS

Rikishi
“Too Cool Yoko”

Whosthis

Sid and Hillbilly Jim

Bounty Hunter

Sid and Rikishi

Sin Eater

Sid
and
Rikishi

gerrybbadd

Sid & Rikishi

Moneymaker

Sid, not very good in the ring but a memorable character at least.

Rikishi. The heel turn sucked but the stuff with Too Cool was always entertaining and he had a few good matches.

ShagNastii

A made with a look made for a wrestler and the dancing headshrinker that “did it for the Rock” march on. Hillybilly and Studd out. Few tops seeds in the next round.

Vader
“It’s Time. It’s Time. It’s Vader Time”



VS

Giant Gonzalez
“The one DQ in one and twenty one”




AND

Undertaker
“The Phenom”



VS



King Kong Bundy
“Kingpin Married With Children”