Height: 6'8" (204cm)
Weight: 600 lbs
Age: 51
Emanuel 'Manny' Yarborough (born September 5, 1960 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an African-American amateur sumo wrestler and mixed martial arts (MMA) competitor, also having competed in judo, wrestling, and American football. He is 6 ft 8 in (2.03 metres) tall and has weighed up to 800+ lb (363 kg). He holds the Guinness World Record for the largest athlete.
He was the 1995 World Amateur Sumo Champion and is considered to be one of the most famous sumo wrestlers outside Japan. He competed in UFC 3, a mixed martial arts competition, losing to the much smaller Keith Hackney, who has since taken the nickname "The Giant Killer".
He also appeared in PRIDE Fighting Championships, taking a loss to 169 lb Daiju Takase. He appeared in a 1997 Bollywood film Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi and has appeared on several talk shows, as well as in a commercial for Motorola. He has also appeared on the HBO drama Oz as an inmate named Clarence Seroy.







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