10 Wrestling Matches Booked Out Of Spite
9. The Big Show Vs Akebono (WWE WrestleMania 21)
For almost all of his time in WWE, The Big Show was considered overweight by his employers.
A quick revisit of the Ross Report archives from shortly after his 1999 signing paint the picture that reflected most of his time before a 2006 sabbatical. The big man was too big in the eyes of his bosses, and no relegation trips to OVW or injury layoffs seemed to be addressing that.
It's fair to say Paul Wight was packing more tonnage than he had during his breakout years in WCW, but wholly unfair to suggest he was the sort of size in keeping with sumo wrestling.
Alas, this was his lot at 2005's WrestleMania 21 when he took two-sports star Akebono in an exhibition that made him look multifariously daft. Long zooms on his dimpled and mostly-exposed a*se were done for the benefit of those guffawing in the Gorilla position rather than any kind of artistic expression, and the match itself failed to illicit anything from an otherwise molten audience.