Big Show Names Top 3 Toughest Guys In Wrestling

In an interview with Pardon My Take, WWE’s Big Show, 48, talked about who he considers the toughest guys in wrestling, having competed despite injuries and pain. The seven-time world champion, who signed with WWF/WWE in 1999, also discussed taking on Edge the night before undergoing knee surgery.

Big Show’s top three picks are The Undertaker, Kane, and John Cena, all of whom bit the bullet when it came to ignoring the pain and wrestling. Undertaker reportedly wrestled with a 103-degree fever, being put on an IV behind the curtain. Kane, on the other hand, fought with an injured sacroiliac joint, overlooking the numbness in his leg and the extreme pain.

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Meanwhile, Cena wrestled with a torn cornea and stopped by the arena a few hours after having neck surgery. In 2007, during a match with Mr. Kennedy on the October 1 episode of Raw, Cena tore a pectoral muscle while performing a hip toss. He still managed to finish the match. The next day doctors discovered that his pectoralis major muscle was completely torn from the bone.

It was estimated that Cena would need six months to a year of rehabilitation, and he was stripped of his WWE Championship title by Vince McMahon the next night, ending the longest WWE Championship reign in 19 years. By December, Cena attended the annual WWE's Tribute to the Troops, filmed at Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq, and returned to wrestling the following month as the final participant of the Royal Rumble match, where he won.

Seven feet tall and 383 pounds, Big Show was first introduced in wrestling as "the son of André the Giant." When he wrestled Edge and The Undertaker the night before knee surgery, he had a bone fragment locked in his knee. After asking Taker’s advice, he decided to put a straight leg brace and a knee brace on and worked around it.

In 2018, after suffering several injuries, Big Show left wrestling for a year. He made his return on the January 6, 2020 episode of Raw, teaming with Kevin Owens and Samoa Joe to defeat Seth Rollins and AOP.

Source: 411Mania

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