Ron Reis
| Ron Reis | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Ronald Allen Reis |
| Born |
April 26, 1970 San Jose, California, United States |
| Residence | Cumming, Georgia, United States |
| Alma mater | Santa Clara University |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Big Bomb Jones Big Ron Studd Evil Reese Ron Reis The Super Giant Ninja SWAT Vanilla Gorilla The Yeti |
| Billed height | 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) |
| Billed weight | 365 lb (166 kg) |
| Trained by | Big John Studd |
| Debut | March 12, 1994 |
Ronald Allen "Ron" Reis (born April 26, 1970) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling between 1995 and 1998 under the ring names The Yeti and Reese. Known for his great height, in 2014 he was described as the seventh tallest professional wrestler in history.
Ron Reis is the son of Ron Reis, Sr., who was a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association title-winning basketball teams in 1961 and 1962 while studying at the University of Cincinnati.
Reis attended Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California. He played on the school's basketball team, scoring 2,082 points and competing in the 1987 Central Coast championship. Reis went on to attend Santa Clara University, where he played basketball for four years.
Ron Reis was trained by Big John Studd. He made his professional debut on March 12, 1994 for the New England-based International Wrestling Federation under his birth name. In 1995, Reis began performing for the Las Vegas-based National Wrestling Conference as "SWAT".
Reis debuted in World Championship Wrestling on Monday Nitro, October 23, 1995, as The Yeti - the Dungeon of Doom's so-called "insurance policy" for the upcoming WCW World Heavyweight Championship match between Dungeon member The Giant and current champion Hulk Hogan at Halloween Havoc 1995. Initially introduced (supposedly) frozen inside a block of ice, the Yeti soon broke out of the ice to reveal a heavily bandaged appearance reminiscent of a huge mummy and went on to interfere in the Halloween Havoc 1995 main event, where he and The Giant attacked Hulk Hogan with a double-bearhug. Reis wore lifts in his boots at the event and had bandages wrapped high on his head, which gave the effect of The Yeti appearing noticeably taller than The Giant (in reality Reis is only around an inch taller than Wight) and caused an astonished Tony Schiavone to remark "The Yeti is taller than The Giant!".
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