Top 10 Wrestlers who were in the Olympics

#5 Giant Silva

Giant Silva makes his opposition look small

The old - school wrestling fans would remember The Oddities as being one of the greatest stables to ever grace a WWE ring - or not. The stable consisted of human anomalies and was Vince McMahon’s deranged way of poking fun at people that did not meet his expectations.

One of the members of the faction was the incredibly tall, and incredibly ungraceful Giant Silva. Silva was one of the tallest professional wrestlers to ever compete in the WWE, and just like some of them, he was unconventionally bad in the ring. However, to be fair, professional wrestling wasn’t Silva’s first choice as a profession.

Giant Silva, whose real name is Paulo Cesar de Silva, played basketball professionally and even made it to the Brazilian national team during the 1988 Summer Olympics. Paulo played as the reserve center, and took up professional wrestling in 1997. Silva also competed in New Japan Pro Wrestling, and later turned to mixed martial arts, putting together an unflattering 2 - 6 professional record in MMA, proving without a shadow of a doubt that he was just as bad in fighting, as he was in wrestling.