10 Stiffest Wrestlers Ever

3. Bruiser Brody

Bruiser Brody was a genuinely €˜larger than life€™ character, both in and out of the ring. Standing at 6,8€ and weighing around 280lbs at any given time, Brody was a paragon of size, strength and that charismatic €˜X Factor€™ appeal that promoters spend most of their careers yearning for. When he blazed a trail towards the ring, fans in the front row must have felt their hearts leaping into their mouths. Down would come Brody, swinging his chain around his head and ranting like a madman. With his eyes aflame and a shock of curly, barbarian hair atop his head, Brody looked every inch the 100% beef-fed powerhouse wrestler in excelsis. However, despite being a savvy businessman, Brody always put his family first, not his profession. He was never a mark for promoters, which meant that he rarely, if ever, jobbed to anyone and could care less about title belts and what-have-you. Bruiser Brody was all about Bruiser Brody €“ and was prepared to do anything necessary to preserve his mystique, because that€™s what promoters booked him for. As far as Frank Goodish, the man behind the character, was concerned, Bruiser Brody was a draw and his appeal boiled down to his incredible pre-steroid physique, a few atom-smashing power slams and his unique wildman appeal, so why mess with a winning formula? In the ring, Bruiser Brody was just as uncompromising as he was backstage and, as such, he was fully equipped to defend himself if need be. Although not a shooter, Brody was so big and so strong that he was fully capable of stamping his authority on almost anybody he was facing, and would happily prove that fact if he felt he needed to. With a single arm scoop slam that must have been like falling from the top floor of a ten-storey building, successive knee drops that must have been like lying in the path of a falling redwood and a piledriver that never looked anything less than utterly devastating, you know that Bruiser Brody took no prisoners, either in the ring or out of it.