12 WWE Monsters Whose Muscles Were Bigger Than Their Skills

9. Giant Gonzalez

Giant Gonzalez Jorge Gonzalez earns his spot on this list not so much for his actual muscles, but for the ones that were given to him via one of the worst outfits in wrestling (mankind) history. The 7'6" Argentine basketball player was drafted by The Atlanta Hawks in 1988 before they discovered he was awful, so Hawks owner Ted Turner offered to turn him into a wrestler for his Turner-owned WCW. His run as El Gigante was disastrous and he headed up north to WWE. The braintrust there decided to turn him into some kind of weird Yeti named Giant Gonzalez, complete with a full bodysuit with airbrushed muscles and patches of hair. Now this should have been the type of costume WCW's Yeti wore a few years later, but instead they took a Yeti and dressed it as a mummy. Wrestling, folks. Gonzalez was so bad in the ring that his stint in WWE lasted less than a year. Not even being nearly 8' tall with painted muscles was enough to make the fans forgive his giant lack of talent.
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