10 Tallest WWE Wrestlers Ever
Reaching new heights...
All heights are disputed, because it's wrestling.
With that out of the way, have a think about why Vince McMahon has always valued physical stature over just about every other aspect of the business he purchased from his father in in 1982. Keen to take the territory from the North East of America to the entire f*cking world in short order, McMahon needed giant men to wow the crowd even if they didn't posses a half the ability of others half their size.
Spotting how wowed the wrestling populous was by Andre The Giant, he looked to craft others in his image - goliaths that would stop others dead in airports, leave jaws permanently on floors in arenas and look even bigger on expensive cameras designed to add size and stature. He selected Hulk Hogan as his cash cow, then Andre for his greatest opponent when he looked to sell 93,173 tickets (or, at least 78,000...) at WrestleMania III.
The fiction has long replaced the facts; it's near-impossible to find definitive figures on actual heights, not least when billed ones are more entertaining anyway. WWE is a big man's world - the "Land Of The Giants" as it was pessimistically referred by a generation of superworkers - but here are some of the biggest that didn't remotely need to be the best.
10. Jackson Andrews (6'11)
The massive associate of diminutive but dedicated soldier Tyson Kidd for a brief spell in 2010, Jackson Andrews looked even bigger than his 6'11 when stood behind the short-stacked Hart Family Dungeon graduate.
In need of new muscle after binning off partner David Hart Smith to dissolve their Hart Dynasty pairing weeks earlier, Andrews was plucked from Florida Championship Wrestling almost entirely because of his size.
Big enough to bully others away from decking his charge, Andrews and Kidd could have worked well together...until Mark Henry put them both away just a few weeks into the run. After defeating Kidd, Henry hit the World's Strongest Slam on Andrews, and he was promptly demoted back to the developmental league until his release five months later.
The company were inadvertently shrewd in their decision making - it emerged in the years that followed that Andrews had been physically abusive towards girlfriend and fellow WWE employee Rosa Mendes and that he was engaged to another woman outside of the industry.