Heaviest WWE Hall Of Famers Of All Time

Established in 1993, the WWE Hall of Fame, a WrestleMania weekend tradition, has served as a memorial for the biggest superstars in sports entertainment, both figuratively and literally: Andre The Giant, the Hall’s inaugural inductee in ’93, stood at a whopping seven feet four inches and weighed 520 pounds, possessing half the height of a male giraffe and the weight of a small brown bear!

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‘The Eighth Wonder of the World’ isn’t the Hall of Fame’s solitary superheavyweight, however, as subsequent years have seen WWE pay tribute to other gargantuan squared circle stars – but which ten were the heaviest?

10

‘Captain’ Lou Albano

Billed Weight: 350 Pounds

Entering the Hall of Fame before it became a grandeur celebration, legendary wrestling manager ‘Captain’ Lou Albano was the heaviest in his class, weighing in at 350 pounds.

Albano, a former wrestler in his own right who once held WWE’s United States Tag Team Championship, surrounded himself with larger-than-life athletes when he turned his head to managerial services. Among his clients were Andre The Giant, and Afa and Sika of The Wild Samoans.

9

Mark Henry

Billed Weight: 360 Pounds

The 360-pound Mark Henry was inducted into the Hall of Fame’s 2018 class by another tank of the squared circle, The Big Show. ‘The World’s Strongest Man’ was an accomplished strongman and powerlifter before becoming a multi-time WWE World Champion, winning gold at the 1995 Pan-American Games, and

competing in two Olympic Games
, 1992 in Barcelona and 1996 in Atlanta.

Henry has been frank about his weight loss, having lost six stone as he eyes a potential in-ring return. He told Booker T on his Hall of Fame podcast that he is already eighty pounds lighter than he was in his last bout to date at 2018’s Greatest Royal Rumble event:

8

Abdullah The Butcher

Billed Weight: 360 Pounds

Abdullah The Butcher is among the Hall of Fame’s most controversial members, given the nature of his gory wrestling style. ‘Superstar’ Billy Graham is among those against Abdullah being immortalized in professional wrestling history, going so far as to request he, that being Graham, be removed.

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Nonetheless, ‘The Madman From Sudan’ entered the Hall of Fame in 2011 as one of its heaviest members, weighing 360 pounds.

7

Big John Studd

Billed Weight: 365 Pounds

Another Big Show-inducted Hall of Famer, Big John Studd stood in the 2004 class, the first after an eight-year sabbatical. At six feet ten inches, as well as one of the heaviest: he weighed 365 pounds.

Passing away from lymphoma in March 1995, the 1989 Royal Rumble winner was represented at the induction dinner by his son, John Minton, Jr.

6

Gorilla Monsoon

Billed Weight: 401 Pounds

Though he was a super-villain of a performer at the height of his career, Gorilla Monsoon is more fondly remembered for his non-physical roles, becoming ‘The Voice of the WWE’ during the Golden Era and into the New Generation Era.

He was granted lifetime employment for his dedication to the company under the reign of Vincent J. McMahon, having previously held a one-sixth share. Inducted in 1994 by the great Killer Kowalski, the real-life Robert James Marella weighed 401 pounds.

5

Rikishi

Billed Weight: 425 Pounds

The Anoa’i family, of which Rikishi is part as the brother of Umaga and Tama, is renowned for his decades-long reproduction of in-ring giants, with Yokozuna, Rosey, and The Wild Samoans among the biggest. Rikishi, too, was a superheavyweight, tipping the scales at 425 pounds.

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His sons, Jey and Jimmy Uso, inducted the Attitude Era midcard staple in 2015, putting him in the same class as Randy Savage, Kevin Nash, and, bizarrely, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

4

Vader

Billed Weight: 450 Pounds

The late Leon ‘Vader’ White was a rugged, bruising powerhouse in his prime, but ‘The Mastodon’ didn’t look anywhere near his actual weight: he was billed as weighing 450 pounds, though his attire choice of wearing a singlet during matches hid most of his mass.

He died in 2018, being posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2022 by his son, Jesse, who diehard NXT fans may recall as Jake Carter.

3

Andre The Giant

Billed Weight: 520 Pounds

Indeed, WWE’s inaugural Hall of Fame inductee was also one of its heaviest, as the 520-pound Andre The Giant was unveiled as the Hall’s debut member ahead of WrestleMania 9. Passing away two months earlier, the Hall of Fame was instituted to memorialize the late Frenchman.

Andre died on January 22, 1993 from congestive heart failure, though if the urban myth is to be believed, his passing should have occurred a lot sooner,

given his supposed abnormal drinking habits
.

2

Yokozuna

Billed Weight: 589 Pounds

It could be argued that the 2012 Hall of Fame class is one of the Hall’s most prestigious, given that iconic WCW faction The Four Horsemen, the immensely influential Mil Máscaras, and the history-making Ron Simmons were among the inductees in a class headlined by multi-time World Champion, Edge.

Also joining ‘The Rated-R Superstar’ during WrestleMania 28 weekend was Yokozuna. The two-time WWE Champion clocked in at 589 pounds, and was represented at the Hall of Fame ceremony by his cousin, Rikishi.

1

Haystacks Calhoun

Billed Weight: 601 Pounds

Introduced in 2016, canned in 2021, and rightly criticized in between, the WWE Hall of Fame’s legacy wing has been used as a means of mass-inducting professional wrestlers and assorted personalities whom, per Dave Meltzer, WWE doesn’t view as being “marketable”. Bruiser Brody, Lou Thesz, Mildred Burke, Frank Gotch, and El Santo are among its members.

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Inducted in 2017 as part of the wing was Haystacks Calhoun, who weighed 601 pounds. Calhoun’s weight became a health issue in his later life as, in 1986, diabetes cost Haystacks his left leg. He died three years later.