10 Biggest Meatiest Men In WWE History ?
7. Umaga
A prodigious talent gone too soon, Edward Fatu almost didn't get a second chance to become a major name in WWE, and even when he did, the gimmick shouldn't have really had a first one.
'The Samoan Bulldozer' was awesome in execution despite being a nightmare in theory. Long accepted as a dated stereotype, the wordless savage blasting through opponents as if he'd been kept in a cage all day felt far too archaic for 2006, but force of will and persistently excellent in-ring skill rapidly moved Umaga up in people's estimations and right to the top of the card.
It was during a 2007 Royal Rumble scorcher with John Cena that everything truly click. He'd been virtually indestructible since debuting, and "virtually" because 'The Champ' had managed to pin him with a sly roll-up just a month earlier. Umaga's mouthpiece Armando Estrada tried to suggest this was nothing more than a fluke, and Cena roared back with the performance of his young career to prove him wrong.
A made man in the months and years that followed, Umaga had won the perception war. He was forever known more for being one of the best working big men in the business rather than a wordless killer-for-hire.