Andre the Giant, Big Show or Braun Strowman, who was the most dominant big man wrestling has ever seen

[Blake_32]

Wrestling has always had a soft spot for genuinely larger than life big men, and three names in particular tend to define the very best of that entire category. Andre the Giant, billed at seven foot four and over five hundred pounds, built a legendary reputation as an essentially unbeatable attraction for well over a decade before his iconic WrestleMania III bodyslam loss to Hulk Hogan in front of a reported 93,173 fans, a match still regularly cited as one of the most significant moments in the entire history of the business.

Big Show carved out one of the longest and most versatile careers of any big man in wrestling history, holding multiple world championships across several different decades while also displaying a genuine agility and technical ability that was unusual for a performer of his size, allowing him to remain a credible, regularly featured presence on WWE television for well over twenty years.

Braun Strowman represented a more modern take on the dominant big man archetype, becoming known as the Monster Among Men through a series of genuinely jaw dropping displays of strength, including famously flipping over an ambulance with a fellow performer trapped inside, before eventually capturing the Universal Championship and establishing himself as one of the most over pure attractions of his own generation.

Andre's untouchable legendary aura, Big Show's remarkable longevity and versatility, or Strowman's modern feats of pure strength. Which big man actually stands above the rest?

[FirewallBadger]

Strowman's ambulance flip and other pure strength spots are honestly some of the most visually impressive things I have ever seen a performer that size actually do live in an arena, that stuff genuinely does not look fake even when you know the business.

[Hare]

Andre has to win this purely on historical significance and aura. That WrestleMania III moment is still one of the most important single events in wrestling history, and nothing either Big Show or Strowman did quite reaches that same level of cultural weight.

[Karen73]

Strowman peaked a bit too early in terms of how directly the company pushed him at the top of the card, but at his hottest moment he was arguably drawing the biggest reactions of any big man on this list purely through presence alone.

[StarKnight64]

Big Show's longevity deserves way more credit in this argument than it usually gets. Staying a genuinely relevant, championship calibre performer for over two decades at that size is an incredible physical achievement most big men never come close to matching.

[Saka31]

Andre's actual in ring limitations later in his career get a bit smoothed over by his legendary status, whereas both Big Show and Strowman were regularly asked to do far more technically demanding things in the ring throughout their careers.

[Pete13]

Big Show working as both a dominant monster heel and a surprisingly sympathetic babyface across different points of his career shows a range neither Andre nor Strowman were really given the chance to fully explore

[Golem]

I think Andre wins on legacy, Big Show wins on longevity and versatility, and Strowman wins on pure visual spectacle, which makes this one of those arguments where the actual criteria you pick basically decides the winner before you even start comparing them directly

[Theodore_10]

Seriously what about brock