40 Huge Athletes Who Make Their Competitors Look Like Kids

In sport sometimes size really does matter. With enough talent, hard work and dedication, a regular-sized athlete can make it to the top of their game. But on occasion, they will go up against other competitors whose physical gifts simply boggle the mind. Because there are certain sports in which being super tall, super heavy or super jacked will carry you pretty far, and these 40 examples certainly fall into that category.

40. John Daly

Golfer John Daly’s nickname is “The Wild Thing” and it’s easy to see why. Despite people in his line of work usually being pretty trim, Daly has been the opposite. A health scare in 2020 forced him to look at his lifestyle, though. It had previously included a 40-per-day cigarette habit, along with 28 cans of Diet Coke and a lot of alcohol. At his heaviest, he weighed 265 pounds.

39. Eric “Butterbean” Esch

A generation of fans will likely know rotund boxer Eric “Butterbean” Esch from his appearances in WWE in the late 1990s. But he also built up some notoriety for the time he knocked out Johnny Knoxville in Jackass: The Movie. The 400-pound Butterbean was known as the “King of the 4 Rounders,” given how quickly he tended to knock his opponents out.

38. André the Giant

André René Roussimoff weighed a massive 13 pounds at birth, which is the average weight of a four-month-old. By the time he became a worldwide pro-wrestling icon, he stood at 7 feet 4 inches tall. At his heaviest, he reportedly weighed 550 pounds. A giant inside and outside the ring, he transcended wrestling and became a movie star when he played Fezzik in 1987’s The Princess Bride.

37. Peter Crouch

At 6 feet 7, the beanpole-thin Peter Crouch looked unique on a soccer pitch. Despite the former Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur striker actually having an excellent scoring record in his Premier League career, he was always an expert at self-deprecating humor. His best quotes include, “I think I was 5 feet 9 inches at birth,” and “I don’t have any tattoos, but that’s mainly because none of my limbs are wide enough to support a visible image.”