10 Times WWE Loved Making Your Favourite Wrestlers Cry

This article is about to deliver on every letter in its title, because WWE f*cking loved making The Big Show cry.

There's that great anecdote that was never outright confirmed but feels realer than half the stuff Bruce Prichard says on podcasts about Vince McMahon having his head turned by The Giant on Nitro before wistfully remarking how those clowns in Atlanta didn't know how to book a new modern monster like he did.

From 1999, he spent over 20 years challenging his own hypothetical.

Thanks to over 30 heel/babyface turns and more bad angles than good reinventions, The Big Show has typically been celebrated more for his range than how said skillset could be transferred into doing the sort of box office business Andre The Giant could only dream of. As well as having decent comic timing (because if there's one thing an actual literal b*stard giant needs in pro wrestling, it's how to measure his cadence while delivering wee/poo/fart gags), he was also pretty good at summoning a gross amount of tears.

From mourning the kayfabe death of his Father all over the WWE Championship belt in 1999, to begging John Laurinaitis for a job and weeping whilst punching Dusty Rhodes square in the jaw in the 2010s, you bring boxsets out on his bawling. And much like his bi-annual main event runs, nobody would buy them.