5 WWE Superstars who helped their colleagues get in shape

#2 16-time WWE World Champion John Cena inspired The Big Show to get abs

John Cena and The Big Show have shared the WWE ring several times, and their friendship goes back to the early 2000s. The two had their first rivalry in WWE in 2004, and since then fans have seen them put on great matches.

Big Show is also one of the few men who have allowed WWE Superstars like Brock Lesnar, Cesaro, and Cena to display their superhuman strength by slamming him to the mat.

In late 2017, Big Show decided to change a big aspect of his gimmick by deciding to shed some weight. He revealed that he was also known as The Worlds Largest Athlete and had to be the biggest man in the WWE ring, but he had a chance to change that following a conversation with his friend, Cena.

“John Cena and I were watching the show in a monitor. Usually if you go to our shows, if John and I aren’t working, we’re sitting there watching the show together. John and I were just cracking jokes on each other, and I made the comment about a giant with abs, who’d want to see that? And John Cena looked me square in the eye and said, ‘Yeah, a giant with abs. Who would want to see that?'”

“And he walked off. But the way he said it, he challenged me that I couldn’t do it. And it really upset me so bad that I got my act together that week and started in. It took me a little over a year and I dropped 90 pounds.”

The short conversation between the two men inspired WWE’s largest Superstar to shed over a 100-pound and get ripped at such a late stage in his career. Had it not been for Cena, fans may have never seen their favorite 7-footer lose enough weight to show off his six-pack abs!