5 Current WWE Superstars who battled life-threatening diseases

#4 Big Show

Big Show

Big Show will go down in history as one of the best big men in pro wrestling when he eventually retires. When he first debuted in WCW over two decades ago, he portrayed a character who was the son of Andre the Giant, who had died a few years earlier.

Big Show, like Andre, had acromegaly, a condition where the bones enlarge in size. Show had been warned by doctors that if he didn't get operated, he would probably not survive past 45 years of age. He got operated and he's still healthy at the age of 48.

"They have to go in, chip out that little pocket of bone, with a laser, cut the tumor and hopefully not damage the pituitary gland because the pituitary gland runs so many senses: your eye moisture, tear ducts, nasal passages and your testosterone… it’s like a governor for so many things in your body that - that surgery sometimes, if not done properly can damage other things so then you’re on medication the rest of your life just to try and be normal. So I got really lucky and everything turned out. One of the bad side effects to Acromegaly is it leads to diabetes and a lot of things if not corrected so I got lucky with it."

Another WWE Superstar, The Great Khali, also had acromegaly, and he was operated on late in his life in 2012.