The black and white match from 1966 features Prince Iaukea as a massive Hawaiian boulder. This gimmick hasn’t changed much in the past 45 years or so, which you can see from these two matches - one in black and white from 1966 compared with some photos taken at an indy show last month. The cruel crushing weight of the Fat Man Offense is what makes this gimmick a turn-on. It creates a sense of frustration and injustice in the minds of the audience, to see their buff young heroes utterly helpless and ineffective against the Fat Man’s protective layers of flesh, to see that ponderous weight used to smother the heroic wrestler. It usually means extreme pain for the skinnier wrestler because the point of the match is to feature the unbeatable power of body mass - the Fat Man as the unstoppable force. ![]() The “Fat Man Offense” is a classic wrestling gimmick where an average dude is utterly crushed by a massive, beefy, gluttonous mountain of a man.
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