10 PG-Era WWE Stars You Won’t Recognise Now

3. Ezekiel Jackson

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Anyone who follows Rycklon Stephens' Instagram feed could tell you that the man devours heavyweight workouts for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The artist formerly known as Ezekiel Jackson is older, but he's still a tank even into his 40s.

Doesn't look the same as he did in WWE though, and that's what counts here.

If anything, big Zeke has added even more mass to his frame since leaving the company in 2014. Jackson decided to retire from pro wrestling completely the following year too, which probs gave him even more time to add one more plate to those creaking barbells.

Most WWE fans would find it difficult to say, "That's Ezekiel Jackson" if you showed them his social media workout vids. He's clearly somebody, and yet it's not immediately obvious that he's the former Intercontinental Champion or The Brian Kendrick's old bodyguard.

Again though, what a physical monster.

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