10 Massively Dubious Wrestling Records
4. Big Show: World's Largest Athlete
WWE liked to promote The Big Show as the World's Largest Athlete, and at his fattest, the billing might have been accurate. Vince was careful enough to go with tallest, given that the nickname was in place by the time the Great Khali first walked to the ring with all the mobility of an effigy.
Beyond the height hyperbole, "Athlete" itself was similarly stretched. We can examine Show's legacy, now that his presence no longer haunts us all the time, and while very entertaining in patches - his 2011-12 work, too, was belated proof of his potential as an amazing wrestling giant - he was hardly an athlete. The first time he ever chain wrestled, years of chain smoking caught up to him, and he coughed himself hoarse in the first 30 seconds.
Viscera was much more bulbous than The Big Show, so even the implication of "fattest" was another McMahon myth. He presumably settled on "Largest" because "If You Combine Height And Girth, He Probably Occupies The Most Mass" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. Perhaps WWE put paid to the idea of Big Show Vs. Shaq at WrestleMania 33, knowing full well that the sight of the stare-down would have visibly debunked the myth.
And, since that match would have lagged more than the Shaq Fu SNES catastrophe, that was probably for the best.