Andre the Giant

Johnmb

This is just a comment that I wanted to make due to irishcrazyhorse's comments in the "You have to pick one" thread. He said (in response to Andre or Big Show):
"Andre the Giant-is a legend but really had no idea what he was doing in the ring if you look back at him,he was "just" a giant..."
I have to say, in Andre's defence, this comment was clearly made by someone who only ever seen André in his final years. Don't forget that Andre was expected to have been dead by about 2 years before his Wrestlemania 3 match. When you see photos and videos of him when he was in his prime, he was amazing. He was fast around the ring, and even did moves from the top rope! He could drop-kick, and do some actual wrestling holds. The Big Show simply doesn't compare with Andre when their prime years are compared.

Fozzy

Big Show actually used to do dropkicks and moves off the top rope too. I would still go with Andre being the better of the two though, when his pre-WWF years are taken into account

Ruu_Old

Andre was great at grinding his opponents down. He'd let them run around him and wear themselves out, then move in.