Big Van Vader Was Pro Wrestling's Last Truly Great Monster
by David Bixenspan from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3STWQ)
Over the course of a few weeks leading up to Big Van Vader's debut with the promotion, World Championship Wrestling aired videos like this one that showed him making his way to the ring for matches in Japan. Usually, the ads wouldn't even show him wrestling. They didn't need to. It was enough to show a 400-plus pound"