Top 10 Big Show Matches

Welllllllllllllllllll It’s the top 10 matches of the Big Show. Big Show is often considered just another giant with no wrestling ability. In my opinion, this is farther from the truth than Edge and Christian being brothers. Big Show has always been someone I have considered criminally underrated, and he has quite an impressive resume of excellent matches.

#10: Big Show Vs Brock Lesnar Judgement Day 2003: Brock Lesnar is probably the Big Show’s greatest rival. No other wrestler has been able to throw Big Show around with impressive ease. In perhaps the only good stretcher match ever, Brock Lesnar uses a forklift to lift the 500 pound giant onto the stretcher, yes, a forklift because wrestling is amazing. This match is one of quite a few great matches involving The Beast and the Giant.

#9: Jeri-Show vs Legacy Night of Champions 2009: I finally get to talk about one of my favorite tag teams ever, Jeri-Show. Chris Jericho needed to announce his new tag team partner after Edge had to miss time with an injury. Part of what makes this match great is how Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase sell the reveal of Big Show as Jericho’s partner, they look horrified to have to wrestle Big Show, which makes sense, he’s a very large gentleman. The match ends with a submission finish...from Big Show making Ted Dibiase tap out to the colossal clutch instantly, setting up the rebirth of Big Show as a great wrestler.

#8: Big Show vs Braun Strowman RAW 4/17/17: You guys remember when Braun Strowman was super over and actually booked wel? Good times. This match sees a very large man wrestle an even larger man in what can best be described as the strongest of styles. This match is best remembered for doing the spot where a superplex from the big boys breaks the ring. While this spot has been done perhaps too often, you can’t deny it will always look cool and Big Show helped solidify Strowman as a big deal, before WWE ruined that.

#7: Big Show vs Kane vs Raven WrestleMania X-Seven: This triple threat match is best remembered for almost cutting off power to the entire area, which would have been a disaster but you have to wonder. The Hardcore title was like the 24/7 title but good and with actual big matches. These guys were putting hardcore to the test while also being ludicrously over the top and just as entertaining.

#6: Big Show vs Alberto Del Rio SmackDown 1/8/13: Look I’ll say it, Big Show had a really good run in 2013. This was a Last Man Standing match that didn’t have an over-reliance on weapons, there were a healthy amount of them, but not too much. This match helped put Del Rio on his way to defending the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 29. It was brutal, physical, and everything you could want from this type of match.

#5: Big Show vs Brock Lesnar Survivor Series 2002: This is a short match for the WWE Championship, but as I mentioned earlier, Big Show is really good at wrestling Brock Lesnar. The match relied on if a slightly injured Lesnar could hit the F5 on Big Show, and of course he did, before Paul Heyman turned on Lesnar, costing him the WWE Championship and turning Lesnar to a true babyface for the only time in his career.

#4: Big Show vs Sheamus Hell in a Cell 2012: This match gets points for being really good when nobody expected anything from it. It takes quite a large man to make SHeamus have the quickness advantage, and that’s exactly what Big Show is if you somehow didn’t know. These two beat each other up in trademark brutal fashion before Big Show scored a World Heavyweight championship victory that was as shocking as this match being so good.

#3: Jeri-Show vs DX TLC 2009: It is still wild to think that WWE had a tag team championship match main event a PPV but that’s how big of a deal Jeri-Show and DX were. Big Show isn’t often great in a TLC match, because, you know, ladders aren’t built for giants. But that’s where the dynamic of Jeri-Show is best shown. In a memorable spot, Big Show has Jericho stand on his shoulders after a ladder breaks. This match serves as a fitting end to one of the most underrated tag teams ever.

#2: Big Show vs Brock Lesnar vs Kurt Angle Vengeance 2003: Brock Lesnar wrestles Big Show very well, Brock Lesnar also famously wrestles Kurt Angle really well. Combine two of his best opponents and you get a great triple threat match. Big Show gets thrown around a lot because Brock Lesnar is there, and a face Kurt Angle picks up the WWE Championship victory after Angle Slamming both of his opponents.

#1: Big Show vs Roman Reigns Extreme Rules 2015: You know who the fans hated in 2015? Both of these guys. How do they respond? By Reigns having his best singles match ever at this point in his career and Big Show proving yet again that he’s still got it. Another Last Man Standing match. This match went a long way to establishing Roman Reigns as the great in-ring performer that he is today. It was tough, it was extreme, it is the turning point of Roman’s singles run while also showing off everything Big Show does so well.