Struggling with your summer fitness regime? Finding it disheartening watching all the athletes in the World Cup in peak physical condition while you start wheezing trying to reach for your bottle of beer from the other side of the couch?
Well not to worry if you’re losing that battle with the bulge because you don’t have to be ripped to make it as a professional athlete. Check out these huskular sporting heroes who have made a sporting career by overcoming the adversity of being big-boned.
Roy Nelson (Mixed Martial Arts)
"Big Country" burst at the seems, I mean onto the scene after he won season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt became an instant fan favourite for his devastating knockout power. Nelson packs more power into his right hand than he does complex carbohydrates into his meals.
Steve McNulty (Football)
The English defender shows you don't have to be physically fit to play at the third highest level in English football.
Glen Davis (Basketball)
Who says wide men can't jump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlppC2RfPwM
Eric Esch AKA Butterbean (Boxing)
Another larger fighter that can throw his weight around. He looks like the world's most dangerous baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-CQ_QJ9rQ
CC Sabathia (Baseball)
It is impressive that this pitcher plays in the major leagues for the New York Yankees when he has the exact same build as the Capitol City Goofball, the fictional baseball mascot from the Simpsons.
John Daly (Golf)
Apologies for this video. It may be NSFW. Big man John Daly is showing a lot of skin in this interview.
Any Darts Player
That's right, literally every professional Darts player is overweight. It's an unavoidable result when the chosen mode of 'rehydration' is swilling pints all night.
