humans come in all shapes and sizes and every shape and size is beautiful because every human is beautiful in their own way except you you're embarrassingly and hideously ugly and disgrace anyways the type of body I'm going to focus on today is at the larger end of the spectrum because these are the 20 largest humans to ever live [Music] number 20 ulay bayam bav now I bit my tongue a few times trying to say that man's name in one shot so I am not going to do it again anyway our first entrant on this list is not really a big man in terms of height but in terms of his girth you see being the biggest does not always mean in a singular Direction sometimes it's just about being so big that no one can really push you [Music] [Applause] around to that end this man I'm talking about is a sumo wrestler these are the guys that intentionally get so big that they can push around other people and literally throw their weight around and for this guy he was not only tall but he was also heavy he was almost 2 m tall and 158 kg for a Suma wrestler that is pretty good and what may surprise you the most though is that this man is not actually from Japan he's from Mongolia which may be why his name was so hard to pronounce in the first place he's a two-time winner of the Sumo World Championships both in 2006 and 2007 he's also entered in over 100 matches winning all the gold medals in both Japan Mongolia Thailand and the United States Italy Germany and more so again the guy really knows how to throw his weight around which is exact ly what you want to do in this sport he's gotten so popular over the years that he's been in all kinds of movies and television shows no I'm not joking remember that movie Oceans 13 well they had a sumo wrestling scene and he was one of the wrestlers in that scene he's also been on King Of The Nerds big brother and even The Bachelorette he was not one of the people vying for her hand but could you imagine if he was the point is the guy is large and in charge and if I never have to speak his name again my tongue will C certainly be grateful before we go on like this video smash the Subscribe button and click the notification Bell right now or this centipede will crawl on your face when you're sleeping now it's time for the sweet topic sumo wrestlers are big it's kind of a prerequisite for the sport but if Legend can be believed back in the 19th century there was a sumo wrestler that was unlike any other one that was so large he made wrestlers today look like scrawny toddlers by comparison this is an artist's Recreation of him that's been made based on records that were kept and read and studied in more recent times maybe someone wrote the numbers down wrong but if he was this big I bet that he'd never lost a fight as always let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below using the # sweet topic number 19 Sultan Coen next up we have sultan and the reason that he's on this list is quite simple in terms of the world right now he is the tallest living man that's a fact that's backed up by the Guinness Book of World Records and they're not people to mess around with when it comes to their recordkeeping this man is from turkey and has had an interesting life due to his height for example he was so tall that he wasn't able to finish school I'm not really sure how that works but when you're almost 2 and 1/2 M tall I'm sure that a lot of people don't really want to sit behind you [Laughter] he describes the advantages of being tall as being able to see a great distance and also being able to help his family with domestic chores such as changing light bulbs and hanging curtains he lists the disadvantages as not being able to find clothing for his legs which measure 126 cm and for his arms with a sleeve length of 97 CM or shoes that will fit his rather large feet while he is famous for his height it's not something that is brought him instant fame or even happiness we like to think of these people as being rock stars in their own way but being tall can actually cause a whole lot of problems and that is sometimes forgotten number 18 Jeff Gabe continuing our Rolodex of different ways to be considered the largest of something we have Jeff Gabe I mean wow these names are getting so much easier to say and this will probably backfire on me eventually when you look at Gabe from the front and focus on things like his chest shoulders and head you'll see nothing wrong with him but the moment that he holds up his arms and hands you're going to see something very wrong anatomically speaking because unlike most other people in the world Jeff's hands and arms are disproportionate to the rest of his body in other words they are huge I mean seriously look at those arms and hands and tell me that it's normal he'll happily admit that it's not as well as anyone else who sees them just the circumference of his arm alone is almost a half a meter I mean can you even imagine well you don't have to because he's right here in front of you due to the size of his hands and arms a lot of people think that he has a medical condition which led him to being this way but the twist here is that no one can find out what that condition is there is medically nothing wrong with him and yet his arms and hands are much bigger than they should be the irony of it all is that one of his favorite hobbies is actually arm wrestling but I doubt that he loses all that often number 17 Macy Curran so far I've shown you a trio of men who have fit the biggest or largest category in some certain way but with Macy Curran I'm dipping into the ladyes side of the Jean Pool because there have been plenty of women who have been Giants in their own ways and this one is absolutely no different remember when people would predict how big you would be when you were young even back then people thought that Macy would be tall probably around 2 m tall which is not really a typical height for a woman but everyone was actually shocked when she was that tall and in the seventh grade while she didn't go too far above that her body is definitely something to be surprised at especially when you look at the length of her legs her legs alone make up about 60% of her height and she's now held the world record for the longest legs by a teenager and a woman just how long are her legs well if you put the average female in the United States next to her her legs would only be a little shorter than that other woman hole that is absolutely stunning that all being said like others on this list there are costs to being this way she was bullied often for her height and has had to have her clothing custom made for her so that she can actually wear it she also hates traveling on planes because of the cramped seats and she can't fit into a whole bunch of cars still though she's trying to be an inspiring figure for those of atypical height especially of the female kind and that that is something to be appreciated number 16 Ruma geli now I'm going to talk about backtack tall women because romesa gelgi is currently the tallest woman in the world today due to that she's a star an activist a public speaker and the holder of a staggering number of five Guinness World Record titles now we did just meet a rather tall person in Macy Curran but how a much taller could romesa be a good set of cinem in fact all being told this Turkish woman is over 215 cm tall so yeah she's got the height but there's a catch with it all a very sad one indeed you see unlike Macy who is just simply very tall remesa has Weaver syndrome a condition that results in a person being unusually tall having a rather large head and typically deals with an impaired intellect it's a very rare disease so rare in fact that she was actually the first person in all of Turkey to ever have been recorded having it even with those issues she continues to live her life as best she can being an advocate for her disease and trying to live her life in the best way possible that's what real strength is right there number 15 Nicholai valuev Nikolai valouev is a very famous person in Russia and holds a lot of records for himself due to his size specifically he was 2. 13 M tall and weighed 148 k kg and that's a big guy and you want to know his profession professional boxer Not only was he a big boxer but he was an absolute Giant in the ring he was so big that he eventually became the record holder for the tallest and heaviest boxing champion in history he was a two-time WBA heavyweight boxing champion and had 50 wins in 53 fights and won 34 of them by KO and his only two losses were when he was Champion but that's still pretty good given how boxing works the irony of it all is that he didn't have the best hands in the business in fact his losses were to men who were much smaller than him showing that size really doesn't always matter plus when he did retire from boxing he had to deal with a whole lot of joint problems still though he's a landmark in professional boxing and he's not someone that you really want to stand in the ring against unless you like the idea of being beaten up by a giant although I wouldn't judge you too much number 14 sad kibi now this man was known as the Iranian Hulk and he got a lot of infamy on Instagram when he began posting pictures of his body and he was absolutely jacked and while he was under 2 m tall he weighed 174 kg which meant that he had a lot of Mass to spread all throughout his body and a lot of it went to the upper half not that he minded it it very much as you can imagine he was a massive weightlifter but he was also a man who dabbled in mixed martial arts even getting challenged by some people in the UFC at one point could you even imagine this massive Hulk of a man throwing punches and kicks at you and not really being able to stop him despite all of that his attempts to get into Combat Sports failed and he was knocked out in a boxing match in the first round what does it all prove well it just goes to show that just because you're a massive Mammoth of a man it doesn't really mean that you'll be an Unstoppable Juggernaut still though there are many people in the world who would love to have his physique and that's simply the truth number 13 elisan Silva shall we go down to Brazil to have a little fun here we're meeting a very tall woman named elisan Silva she was very easily dubbed Brazil's tallest woman because she was 2. 07 M tall but like a certain other tall woman on this list her height was not really meant to be that way when she was just 10 years old she was already 1.
75 m tall that's a really tall child and so some doctors decided to have a look at her because it's not really a good metric for how young kids are supposed to grow it turned out that there was a reason she was so tall and that's because she had a tumor that tumor not only caused her to grow really tall but also to have severe pain in her body in fact she suffered pain almost all over thankfully though she did not grow that that tall or she'd be looming over everyone else on our list while she did get bullied in school she turned things into a positive and became a model and I'm pretty sure that Brazil doesn't have a whole lot of models like her she's also being a role model for taller women so that they can accept their own length and see what good things can come from it number 12 Oliver rter Oliver rter is a Dutch born giant actor professional bodybuilder fitness model and entrepreneur his nickname is the Dutch Giant and it barely does Justice to his 2. 18 meter stature he also weighs 153 kg so he's tall he has the bulk and that makes him a mean combination that many people approve of what do I mean by that well he's never been afraid to push himself or his body and has learned multiple skills in order to help make him more appealing to the camera that is that's what's led him to being in commercials television shows movies and more you have to appreciate a man with that kind of drive and for some Productions they're absolutely looking for a guy like him but here's a fun fact have you ever watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow perhaps you remember a certain prison scene with red Patriot where he broke that man's arm during the arm wrestling contest well that was Oliver rter he was meant to be a reference to the walking bear character of Ursa I'm not really sure that we'll see him in the MCU again so be grateful that you got this one in the first place number 11 Juan Pedro Franco now I'm going to talk about Juan Pedro Franco a man who is an inspirational story for a different reason than the others I've talked about so far Juan Pedro Franco was crowned the heaviest person alive by the Guinness World Records in 2016 after weighing in at a whopping 92 stone with a little extra weight tacked onto that for context if you put 10 average sized men together he would weigh more than them that's not exactly healthy in any way shape or form his weight had actually crippled him and he was stuck in bed he needed a lot of help to set up or even try to move at all and it was not a very good thing the only thing that had saved his life were some medical procedures which allowed him to lose well over half of his body weight and then he got slimmed down some more after that and it's a good thing that he was able to get the help because no one should be that much of a prisoner within their very own body number 10 Yao defen as we get into our final 10 entries we start with a woman who sadly is no longer with us but was in fact the tallest woman ever with a height of 259 cm and a weight of 157 kg not unlike a certain other yaal she was from China and not unlike someone else in our list she was someone that had a tumor on her pituitary gland and due to that she rocketed in height from a young age and as you may expect there were many who wanted to try and get her to become a sport Star as that would bring a lot of attention to China just like the other ya however this ya was not strong enough to do Sports and injuries were something that she frequently had to deal with in fact her family wasn't able to cure her of her tumor until much later in life because they didn't have the money to perform the surgery equally as sad she died at the age of 40 and it's not really clear as to what it actually caused her death given that China is a bit secretive about certain things we will likely never know the truth number nine Sun Ming Ming coming in at 261 cm tall soon Ming Ming was the tallest basketball player in the world but if you think that he was Destiny Bound for accolades you would be wrong you see he grew up in a lower class part of China and he didn't have the ability to play and practice basketball until he was 15 years old because his family could never take him to a place to play however he didn't give up on his dreams and actually moved to the United States to try and be part of the NBA the results well they weren't all that great you see one of the things that basketball players need in order to succeed is the fundamentals and soon didn't have those he was tall but that was really about it he wasn't that strong he was easy to exhaust and he didn't have have the skills to match what Yao Ming and other tall players have done he would go on to do Semi-Pro leagues and even found himself in movies like Rush Hour 3 but one could only wonder what it would have been like had he been properly trained to play basketball at a younger age we may never know what could have been number eight Rahim takula now coming in at 2 m and 46 cm tall Brahim was so tall at a young age that he literally grew an entire met in one year most kids or teens grow to be about a third of that if they're lucky but due to this he was also asked to get a blood test and it would be revealed that he had a condition which had led to his height thankfully he was able to get back to normal size after an operation but he was still really tall as a result he was even the second tallest man in the world at the time now as you can imagine it was not easy for him to be that tall he had to wear size 58 European style shoes just to have proper Footwear and remember Sultan Coen well brahim's feet are bigger than his he would eventually go on to work at a theme park where people could take pictures with him getting paid to be in pictures that's not really a bad living number seven John Rogan I've shown you all kinds of various tall people with various nationalities but now I'm going to show you the tallest African-American to have ever lived and his name was John Rogan he was the second tallest person ever to live with with a height of 267 cm and what may be one of the more interesting elements to JN is that he was the fourth of 12 children and yet he was the only one who had gigantism showing that sometimes it's simply dumb luck or bad luck depending on how you look at it that can lead to such massive growth spurts for John there were some big time catches to having such a height due to the fact that he grew up in the 1800s a lot of people only saw him as valuable via the carival or Sideshow he turned all of those down and furthermore due to the medical practices of the time he could not be treated for his condition and that left him with another condition that made his joints very rigid and so he was unable to stand or walk sadly he only lived to the age of 38 and died because of his height so as we've hopefully proven by now just because you can be the biggest or the largest in a category does not mean that it's always a good thing number six John Brower Minos here's another example of someone being too big in the bad way John Brower Minos was someone who was quite literally the heaviest man in history he weighed 635 kg which is just mindboggling to think about when you look at pictures of him at his biggest you wonder how anyone could live with that amount of mass to give you a reference for how heavy that he was at one point he tried to get better by going on a diet it left him bedridden and he eventually had to go to the hospital and it took over a dozen firefighters to get him there while he would get slightly thinner by the time he died he weighed 363 kg he was so big that it took two cemetery plots to contain him his condition would be a killer and there are many who debate just how he was able to get such a weight some think that it was genetic While others think it was because of water retention and nobody honestly knows number five po van Trung HOV van Trung was a man from Vietnam who eventually became the sixth tallest man in the history of the world his story is one that is familiar to many others on this list by that I mean that he began getting very tall quite quickly and when he was finally diagnosed he was already really freaking tall and at his Peak he was 27. 2 CM tall sadly though this kept failing him and due to his disease he kept getting taller despite his body not being able to keep up he was just 34 years old when he passed away and it's really sad that he didn't get to enjoy life just a little bit more number four Jang Jun Kai now if you haven't noticed by now China has produced quite a few large people and one of them is Jang Jun Kai he's 2.
42 M tall and thankfully he's still alive today at the age of 59 not much is known about the big man however he has been friends with many of the other large Giants of China in fact when Yao defen was in the hospital for an injury he came to visit her and it really cheered her up it's good to know that these Giants among people are supporting each other because it can be a very lower profession number three Ronnie Colman now I've shown you some big people in the past but now I'm going to show you a big man and by that I mean legendary bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman the winner of the MrOlympia title for eight consecutive years Ronnie Coleman is widely regarded as either the greatest bodybuilder of all time or one of the two greatest right along with Arnold Schwarzenegger and if you think about that his only competition was Arnold and many think that he was honestly better than Arnold by the ending of his career he not only had dominated the Mrolymp but had won 26 titles on the ifbb circuit his body was praised not only for its size but in how it looked and how dominant that certain body parts were and so on not only could he pack on the muscle he could actually use them with extreme effect he was also noted as being the strongest bodybuilder in the world he was inspired by a fellow bodybuilder by the name of Lee Haney who is the only man to match Coleman's record of eight straight MrOlympia wins and when you look at these two side by side you can see how Coleman followed Haney's example even when he stopped doing bodybuilding on a competitive basis he still made training videos so that people could try and match what he did he's one of the best to have ever done it and if you were to get as big as him well you'd be doing something right that's for sure number two Yao Ming oh W yeah I try now I'm finally talking about the man himself Yao Ming and why he remains at the peak of Chinese basketball Stars I mean after all he not only made it into the NBA but he also got to be in their Hall of Fame and that just doesn't happen for anyone standing at 2.
