13 of the most humongous fighters in MMA history

#1 Emanuel Yarbrough

“Manny”

Height: 6’8”

Weight: 270 Kg

Emanuel Yarbrough is responsible for one of the two spots in the all-time MMA highlight reel involving Keith Hackney. The other party is Joe Son’s pulped crotch. A former sumo, Yarbrough participated in the devoid-of-rules UFC 3, where he thought pushing an opponent out of the ring equalled victory.

Imagine his indignation when the match was restarted and Hackney TKO’d him and was given the supremely undeserving nickname of “the Giant Killer”.

Unsurprisingly, Yarbrough would find a place in the Japanese MMA scene. At Shooto, he devised what is possibly the only submission win in history by smothering an opponent; Tatsuo Nakano, who was one-third Yarbrough’s weight. At PRIDE 3, Yarbrough tried to replicate that hack but was TKO’d by 170-lbs Daiju Takase.

Yarbrough acted in 1997 Akshay Kumar-starrer “Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi” and in a Motorola commercial. He played inmate Clarence Senoy on the TV show “Oz”.

The giant from Jersey died in 2015 from a heart attack, paying the ultimate price for a lifetime of food addiction. Yarbrough made a self-fulfilling prophecy when he said that he was a prisoner in his own body. At one point of time, he weighed more than 800 lbs.