10 Pro Wrestlers With Olympic Backgrounds

#10 GIANT GONZALEZ

Giant Gonzalez during his younger days as an accomplished basketball star.

No, this eight-foot giant never competed in Olympic wrestling, obviously. However, he did excel at another sport and I'll give you one guess which sport that was. Yes! You are correct, Giant Gonzalez was a star basketball player from his native homeland of Argentina. Who would've guessed it?

Gonzalez was a member of the Argentina basketball team in the 1988 Olympic games. Soon after, he was drafted in the NBA by the Atlanta Hawks, to become the first ever Argentinean player drafted in the NBA. Unfortunately, injuries would plague him, shortening his NBA career.

In 1990, Gonzalez would make his WCW debut at the Capital Combat pay-per-view. He would have strong feuds with the likes of Ric Flair and several others. In 1993, he would go on to sign with the WWF, where he would arguably have his greatest success as a professional wrestler.

One of his top moments was the Undertaker feud, which climaxed with a loss to Taker at Wrestlemania IX.