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When looking back on the goliaths of WWE, the name of John Minton, aka Big
John Studd, is one that ranks with the likes of Andre the Giant, Gorilla
Monsoon and Big Show. Standing 6 foot 10 and weighing in at 364 pounds,
Studd was a mountain of a man who dominated WWE competition throughout the
1970s and ’80s. He first came to prominence in the early ’70s under the name
Chuck O’Connor, but it was once he adopted his more famous ring name that he
reached his greatest heights. He competed in numerous territories, including
the NWA’s Carolinas region, where he held the Mid-Atlantic Tag Team
Championship with a rookie Ric Flair. In WWE, he was a serious threat to WWE
Champion Bob Backlund and gave Hulk Hogan the first major challenge of his
championship run. His feud with Andre over the title of “wrestling’s true
giant” is among WWE’s most storied conflicts, and it culminated in the
$15,000 Bodyslam Challenge match at the first WrestleMania. During the
mid-1980s, he formed a regular tag team with fellow behemoth King Kong Bundy
that is to this day the most gargantuan duo in WWE history. Studd made a
brief comeback to WWE in 1989 that saw him win the first Royal Rumble ever
broadcast on pay-per-view. In March 1995, after a 17-month struggle with
Hodgkins’s disease, John Minton succumbed to liver cancer at the age of 46,
robbing the sport of one of its true giants. <<<Back |
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