Pro wrestling promoters like to bring in monster heels to terrorise their top babyfaces. Pro wrestling promoters are also, almost to a man, obsessed with size: regardless of talent, a very large man will usually get a very large push. These facts explain the otherwise baffling wrestling careers of Jorge González, Dalip Singh Rana and Ron Reis. Reis was a legitimately very large man (billed in WCW as significantly taller than Paul The Giant Wight, although his costume added a good few inches) with a half decent look. Nonetheless, in their infinite wisdom the powers that be, or were (powers that werent?) at WCW decided to add him to Kevin Sullivans heel stable the Dungeon Of Doom in 1995, as The Yeti. Wrapped in bandages from head to foot, he burst from a gigantic block of ice to run an interference angle with the Giant in the main event of Halloween Havoc that year. No one seems to have informed those same powers that werent that a yeti is the Tibetan equivalent of Bigfoot, an ape-like cryptid from the snowy mountains of the Himalayas and, crucially, not a huge man dressed as a mummy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixb_w1AZI80 Reis could not wrestle to save his or anyone elses life, and was wrapped in bandages so tight that his normally sluggish movement was further heavily constricted. Its fair to say that his bear hug attack on Hulk Hogan from behind with Wight was one of the most unintentionally hilarious spots on WCW television (which is saying something). Reis would be repackaged a number of times, most memorably as the Super Giant Ninja for some reason, but far from being a true monster, never amounted to more than a massive jobber. As far as we know, he retired from wrestling completely in 2005 to deliver wine in the mid-west. You know, like yetis do in real life. Whos your favourite wrestling freak? Tell us all about it in the comments!
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