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The Giant

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The Giant	comment	In your basic Professional Wrestling promotion, there's one guy who's much bigger than everyone else. Usually at least a head taller than the next-tallest man on the roster, and a mountain of muscle (and fat) to boot. So, of course, the promoters advertise him as an unstoppable killing machine, regardless of the big man's (lack of) talent. Such men are almost universally introduced and pushed the same way as "monster" heels, sometimes mixed with a Foreign Wrestling Heel vibe. Because of their billing, they will usually be pushed straight to the top to face off with the top Face, whom they'll generally squash in their first meeting, to give you an idea of how Herculean an effort will be required to defeat them. An important distinction between The Giant and just being large is that The Giant will have sheer immovability and too often a noticeable lack in the talent department, having a very small repertoire of basic strikes and throws or not possessing Wrestling Psychology. While some with the Giant gimmick will disprove some of the stereotypes by showing a more diverse range of moves along with decent fitness and mobility, their in ring style and psychology are still built almost entirely around being large and hard to budge, as it is the easiest/most credible way to build matches with guys like them. And they will rarely be in a hurry either which, when worked well, can go a long towards making them seem that much larger. Jim Ross used to refer to these types of wrestlers as Hosses, after Hoss Cartwright from Bonanza. Moves done by giants enough to typically become associated with them first and foremost include the chokeslam, being the obligatory move to show their raw power and simple approach to wrestling, with clawholds if the wrestler has particularly huge hands not being far behind. The classic big boot or stationary kick right to the face of a running, puny opponent is another and, ultimately, if the Giant has a big belly or otherwise a heavy torso, a big splash is the most adequate finishing move. If the angle goes on long enough, The Giant might get a Heel–Face Turn, rebelling on the manager who brought him in and going his own way. This usually results in them no longer being unstoppable. Related to Muscles Are Meaningful (large means slow and strong). Comparable to Smash Mook. For mythical giants, see Our Giants Are Bigger.
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The Giant / int_11788bea	comment	Diesel's entire run as WWF champion could be described as kick and throw throw smaller guy around, eventually pin him, repeat. In his later WCW run he became legendarily lazy and endeavored to do as little work as possible in the ring. It's often joked that Kevin Nash knows about 4 moves, 5 if you count the Hair Flip.
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The Giant / int_12dde29	comment	Starting in All Pro Wrestling, moving to CMLL, New Japan and finally winding up as the biggest man in WWE, The Great Khali, who at 7'1" is (slightly) taller than the Undertaker, Kane, and the Big Show. He's also one of the least mobile examples in wrestling history, due to the strain his gigantism puts on his body. He's still a huge attraction though, managing to draw a crowd of sixty thousand in his native Punjab to see CWE students, well after his WWE run was over.
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The Giant / int_12fac4c	comment	From GLOW, there was Foreign Wrestling Heel Matilda the Hun (aka Queen Kong) billed at 280 pounds and her rival, Mountain Fiji, billed at 350 pounds. The face, Mountain Fiji, played the roll much straighter. All the heels of that season had to work together just to take her off of her feet and even then Mountain Fiji was never knocked to the mat in a match.
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The Giant / int_142e6000	comment	Titanic Tim from the Saturday Night Slam Masters games is a 7'9" goliath whose fighting style is even listed as "giant wrestling"... but he's actually pretty good at grappling and such anyway. Still, in a league where other fighters can throw grenades or turn into meteors, a lunging karate chop is pretty basic. Titanic Tim was based on Japanese wrestling legend Giant Baba, who despite being extremely tall did not have a limited or basic repertoire of moves.
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The Giant / int_2372fc33	comment	King Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V and all his other gimmicks were this. Six Foot nine, five hundred pounds, not a lot of mobility by wrestler standards and the large majority of his matches revolved around how someone could manage to do anything to him. He was also one of the most infamously unsafe workers WWE ever employed, once almost breaking Diesel's back during their SummerSlam match for the WWE Championship just by careless sitting on him and smashing The Undertaker's face with misaimed leg drops.
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The Giant / int_24705e44	comment	The 6 ft 9 Isis the Amazon (real name Lindsay Kay Hayward), of the American indie scene. That's her dominating the lineup in the bottom-right corner of the page pic; you can see that the top of A.J. Lee's head is about level with Isis' breasts. She's done a bit of acting too, and consequently holds the Guinness World Record title for the tallest women ever to play a leading role. She was very briefly in WWE developmental as Aloisia.
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The Giant / int_247bf1d9	comment	El Gigante Nihan is the purest example of this trope associated with CSP/WWC. Yes Andre The Giant was there before him, but it was hardly Andre's home promotion and Abyss would like to remind you that he got his start in Puerto Rico but was really only an example of this trope using the Abyss gimmick(which he didn't initially have) and even that became more Garbage Wrestler over time. Nihan however is a dedicated WWC mid card talent who is pretty quick for a man his size and does do an occasional fairly flashy move like a knee drop but is mostly a brawler with a few power moves and little on the mat finesse.
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The Giant / int_248f9ed	comment	Rycklon Stephens is this among Homicide's students, in a similar manner to Curtis Hughes mostly for his musculature, being a former body builder who is only about six foot two but weighed about three hundred pounds. Unlike Hughes and similar to Sapp, Stephens is fairly quick but his arsenal is very repetitive and more simplistic than Hughes (but more complex than Sapp). He was less this and more big guy in WWE as "Ezekiel Jackson" but his giant attributes truly shined through on Lucha Underground, or would have if not for Vibora (although Big Rick had been gone for almost 2 seasons by the time Vibora debuted).
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The Giant / int_249ada68	comment	Chyna, the "Ninth Wonder of the World", who actually held the WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Title and was built up over a period of months specifically so they wouldn't get in trouble for having men fighting a woman.
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The Giant / int_264e0a2b	comment	Kurrgan, previously The Interrogator of the Truth Commission and later Kurrgan The Interrogator during an attempted singles monster push, was around 7 feet tall and in the mid 300s in weight.
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The Giant / int_304cf2c	comment	On the flip side, Team Lesnar in Survivor Series 2003 was built on this trope but had no longevity. It featured Brock Lesnar, A-Train, Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones and the Big Show together as the largest team in the history of the pay per view. Two had just surfaced on TV and 3/5ths of them were gone by next year.
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The Giant / int_307b029a	comment	Joey Styles had already made a similar joke about Nicole Bass, a massive female bodybuilder who gained a degree of fame for her appearances on The Howard Stern Show and later spent time in ECW and WWE, saying that she should be named "Russia" because she's bigger than Chyna.
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The Giant / int_380eb8a	comment	Akebono was a legendary sumo who turned to professional wrestling after he retired. He's very fat, but also quite tall at 6'8". He was built up as being so heavy not even Brock Lesnar could lift him. (He was only 16 pounds heavier than the Big Show, whom Brock could lift, so he should have been able to do it).
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The Giant / int_3f093ce4	comment	Bob Sapp was tall and heavy enough to fit the trope, even more in Japan. Ironically he was even more this trope in kick boxing and mixed martial arts than traditional pro wrestling. As a pro wrestler Sapp had a lot of moves, even if almost all of them involved picking up and dropping the other guy or running into them. His matches occasionally saw something resembling a long term game plan on his part. Sapp's professional fights could almost always be described as him charging forward flailing his arms, however.
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The Giant / int_480641ea	comment	Tenta later joined The Oddities, an entire stable of giant men managed by the much smaller Luna Vachon, the Insane Clown Posse, and briefly Sable. Kurrgan, previously The Interrogator of the Truth Commission and later Kurrgan The Interrogator during an attempted singles monster push, was around 7 feet tall and in the mid 300s in weight. Giant Silva was actually bigger than The Big Show, and was actually released to make sure he didn't overshadow the soon-to-arrive Show. Nonetheless, Silva was an awesomely agile giant, and could perform top rope moves, hurricanranas and sunset flips during his later stay in Japan and Mexico.
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The Giant / int_5ae0bec6	comment	Just try to stop WWE from using these. In addition to Big Show, everyone else in that picture has been on their television programming at one time or another. Big Show, Mark Henry, Undertaker, and Kane are particular favorites whom WWE can't seem to get enough to of, although relative to the WWE's size, that number's fairly conservative. Of course, The Undertaker is arguably one of the very best big man wrestlers ever, Kane has always been solid—in his prime he could do hurricanranas, and Mark Henry was pretty mobile in the 90s and worked to improve in 2005. Notice that the wrestlers listed above are among the longest-tenured in WWE — this is because the "giant" style doesn't take much of a toll on the body (mostly due to taking few bumps), meaning giant wrestlers can keep working well past the age others might retire at. On the flip side, Team Lesnar in Survivor Series 2003 was built on this trope but had no longevity. It featured Brock Lesnar, A-Train, Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones and the Big Show together as the largest team in the history of the pay per view. Two had just surfaced on TV and 3/5ths of them were gone by next year. Eli Cottonwood, one of the rookies in WWE NXT season 2. He was bad, but he was about 6'10". In vignettes about him the other pros struggled to have anything nice to say about him other than "He's tall." He managed to stick around WWE's developmental league FCW (and later the revamped NXT) for a couple years, based entirely on being large and having no other upside. Braun Strowman was one of WWE's more successful attempts, a 6'8", 385lb former strongman capable of incredible feats of power. While he got off to a slow start in the company, after a few years he got over as an unstoppable Wrestling Monster as both his skills and booking improved and Big Show passed the torch to him in an impressive trilogy of giant vs giant matches. Their latest attempt is Omos, a colossal ex-basketball player billed at a whopping 7'3" and 400lb. After a few Early-Bird Cameo appearances as a giant ninja serving Akira Tozawa in a silly comedy match or the silent doorman of the ill-fated "RAW Underground", he officially debuted on the main roster as AJ Styles' bodyguard and eventual tag partner, often intimidating opponents into making mistakes in matches that Styles could capitalise on by doing what he does best: standing at ringside Being Tall. It was even theorised that his presence contributed to the shocking release of Braun Strowman because Omos was just so much taller than even the "Monster Among Men" that he damaged Strowman's aura. There's just one small problem with WWE's intentions to push Omos as hard as they can: he can't wrestle.
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The Giant / int_68f37034	comment	The unstoppable, 275-pound Awesome Kong in TNA and SHIMMER or Kharma (WWE), both at the very beginning of her career before she took off as Lightning Bruiser in Zenjo and towards the end when various issues slowed her down.
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The Giant / int_6eb03297	comment	Tommy "Tiny" Lister, the actor who played Zeus from No Holds Barred, had a short wrestling career almost solely because of this trope.
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The Giant / int_7168911a	comment	Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight!: Minor character Veronica Lin is a former US pro wrestling heel-turned-MMA fighter who stands 205 centimeters tall and weighs 110 kilos, making her one of the biggest characters in the manga of any sex. In her first match, she beats her opponent unconscious in a performance compared to being hit by a truck, though the much smaller Maria Luisa Riviera beats her in the round of 16 by outmaneuvering her and choking her out.
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The Giant / int_75766702	comment	Happy Humphrey, who weighed a whopping 800 pounds! He was somewhat immobile, especially compared to his quicker moving contemporary rival Haystacks Calhoun, who was still something of an example simply for weighing 600 pounds, which was still too much for most wrestlers to slam.
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The Giant / int_7a97256c	comment	Braun Strowman was one of WWE's more successful attempts, a 6'8", 385lb former strongman capable of incredible feats of power. While he got off to a slow start in the company, after a few years he got over as an unstoppable Wrestling Monster as both his skills and booking improved and Big Show passed the torch to him in an impressive trilogy of giant vs giant matches.
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The Giant / int_7bfeef7e	comment	Kamala was billed as the Ugandan giant but was shorter and more nimble than most examples. His weight was really what put him in this trope's territory - he was billed at as much as 450 lbs.
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The Giant / int_8188695a	comment	Nia Jax is a pretty good example. Six feet tall and billed as weighing 275 pounds, which is bigger than many of the men WWE employs, and she was fast tracked out of their developmental program to their main television show to win the women's title belt, despite having less wrestling psychology than many losers of the diva searches. (WWE, for their part, did slow down her push when the novelty wore off and fans started getting bored.)
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The Giant / int_87627084	comment	Jeep Swenson, better known for playing Bane in Batman & Robin than for wrestling, was 6 ft 4 but weighed 405 lbs. And it was all muscle.
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The Giant / int_8e15a4cf	comment	Also in the Dungeon of Doom was Ron Reis as The Yeti. His being visibly (if only slightly) taller than his stablemate The Giant sort of took the air out of The Giant's gimmick. Especially since he was later repackaged as the Super Giant Ninja — who sounds better, The Giant or the Super Giant Ninja who is taller than the Giant? A few years later Reis showed up again as Reese, the Giant Mook of Raven's Flock.
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The Giant / int_95084867	comment	Every last faction in Kaiju Big Battel has their own giant - namely Slo Feng of the Heroes, Mota Naru of the Swarm, Napalean of Dr. Cube's Posse, and Vegetius of the Rogues. Napalean is noted on the website to be the single largest kaiju in competition.
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The Giant / int_9b891ef2	comment	Shaquille O'Neal is another prominent example, at least as far as his lane presence is concerned. His free throw ability, not so much—famously so.
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The Giant / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Gregor "the Mountain that Rides" Clegane from A Song of Ice and Fire, who is a giant in the literal (he's around eight feet tall) and medical sense - he has gigantism, which translates to horrible splitting headaches that the local equivalent of opium does very little to soothe. This in addition to a bad case of Parental Favoritism doing nothing to curb his tendencies (his torturing and scarring his little brother was covered up, and it's likely he murdered his father for his inheritance) make him a perfect example of a Psycho for Hire. And after his duel with Prince Martell, he's a Technically Living Zombie who might not even have a head, but is just as strong.
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The Giant / int_ae8d1d80	comment	The late John Tenta had a good run at a giant archetype as Earthquake in the WWE, feuding with Hulk Hogan at the height of his career, eventually alongside the similarly gigantic Typhoon (Fred Ottman). They called themselves the Natural Disasters.
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The Giant / int_bc3051ba	comment	Jorge González, billed as El Gigante in WCW and Giant González in WWE. May be more well-known for the "naked" bodysuit he was required to wear as the latter. He feuded with The Undertaker while "The Deadman" was in his prime (who he can be seen towering over in the top left of the page image; 'Taker is 6'10" himself). His profile at the wwe.com Alumni Gallery lists his height as 8 feet, but it was actually more like 7'6". Incidentally, in spite of his lack of finesse in the ring, he was good enough at basketball to be almost become a member of the Argentine national team; he would have competed in the 1988 Olympics, but he was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks two months before the games.
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The Giant / int_c3210502	comment	Early during his 1979-1981 WWF run, Hulk Hogan was billed as a "giant," although this was because he was bigger than almost everyone on the roster at the time except for Andre the Giant. It was inevitable the two would eventually meet ... and so the first chapter of a legendary feud was written.
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The Giant / int_c33303d9	comment	Linda Miles, also known as Shaniqua. Tall and muscular but was clearly not ready when she was put on television (just like everyone else from Tough Enough 2). Ohio Valley Wrestling bookers stopped trusting her not to injure other women, including body builders like Melissa Coates and amateur standouts like Beth Phoenix, concluding no opponent smaller than Shelton Benjamin (roughly her size) would be safe in a ring with Miles.
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The Giant / int_e26905cd	comment	Craig Marduk from Tekken is a good example of this trope, even though his official fighting style is Vale Tudo as opposed to wrestling.
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The Giant / int_eac73565	comment	British wrestler Giant Haystacks, also known as the Loch Ness Monster in Stampede Wrestling and as just Loch Ness during his brief run in WCW in February-March 1996. He debuted before the WCW SuperBrawl VI PPV as the newest member of the Dungeon of Doom, but left the group in time to lose to the Giant (Big Show) at WCW Uncensored 96 in March.
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The Giant / int_ed64983f	comment	Early on in his WCW run, Wight was billed as being the son of André the Giant, despite not being related to Andre in any way. This was dropped after a while, though. His height was also exaggerated — he's closer to 6'10" than 7', but was consistently billed around 7'4" by WCW.
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The Giant / int_ef661e97	comment	Hugo Andore, standing at 8 feet and being a near-Expy of Heel-era André, exhibits next to no finesse in his attacks compared to other grapplers. The same thing can be seen on Raiden (based on the legendary Vader, who was hugely popular in Japan) from Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters. Zigzagged with Zangief, who has some elements of this (Mighty Glacier and specially in the earlier games, Husky Russkie, really freaking big, several grapple and piledriving-based moves) but often ends up subverting the trope (much friendlier and boisterous than the average giant personality-wise, and wasn't that much of an asshole beforehand)
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The Giant / int_f4559fd1	comment	Several villains in Kinnikuman and Ultimate Muscle get by mostly on superior size and strength. Perhaps most emblematic is the Mountain, one of the largest and heaviest wrestlers in either series. His ultimate finishing move is a simple frog splash (with the Name of Power "Mountain Drop"), but it's absolutely devastating because of how massive he is.
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The Giant / int_f4559fd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Kinnikuman (Manga)	hasFeature	The Giant / int_f4559fd1
The Giant / int_fa43ce7d	type	The Giant
The Giant / int_fa43ce7d	comment	The later Fire Pro Wrestling games have a number of wrestling styles in the character editor/CAW creator. The Giant style has poor Affinity ratings in everything except for punching and dirty attacks; it doesn't even feature high ratings in the Power category. One assumes this is to reflect the extremely limited movesets of most real-life 'giant' wrestlers, especially since low Affinity rating for a move causes it to drain a lot of stamina. The lack of beneficial offensive stats leaves a lot of points to put into defense for Create-A-Wrestlers, though. "Giant" is also a defensive style you can select, whereby you can't be thrown by even the most basic grapples until you've been sufficiently worn down with strikes and holds.
The Giant / int_fa43ce7d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Giant / int_fa43ce7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Pro Wrestling (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Giant / int_fa43ce7d

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The Giant	processingCategory2	Height Tropes
The Giant	processingCategory2	Villains
Boruto: Naruto the Movie / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Tiger Mask W / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
I Started Out as a Child (Audio Play) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
The Crimson Cage (Comic Book) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Ultimate Video Rumble (Fanfic) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Braveheart / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Nacho Libre / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
The Man with the Iron Fists / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
RealSlimShadowen	seeAlso	The Giant
Baki the Grappler (Manga) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Fort Boyard / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Punch-Out!! (Video Game) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Saturday Night Slam Masters (Video Game) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
The Wonderful 101 (Video Game) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Magical Island (Webcomic) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Rival Angels (Webcomic) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Hoops / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
All Japan Pro Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
AndrÃ© the Giant (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Baron Corbin (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Batista (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Beth Phoenix (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Big John Studd (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Big Show (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Bob Sapp (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Braun Strowman (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
CMLL (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Dungeon of Doom (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Enzo and Cass (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Erick Rowan (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
FILL (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Fighting Opera HUSTLE (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Fortune (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Giant Baba (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Kaiju Big Battel (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Kamala (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Kane (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Kevin Nash (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Low Ki (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Lucha Underground (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Mark Henry (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Matt Bloom (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Matt Morgan (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Naoya Ogawa (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
National Wrestling Alliance (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Nia Jax (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Pro Wrestling ZERO1 (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Quinn Ojinnaka (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Ring of Honor (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Robert Swenson (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
SHIMMER (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
The Wyatt Family (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
WWE (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
ECW (Wrestling) / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant

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