Tacko Fall photo with John Cena makes WWE legend look absolutely tiny

WWE legend John Cena is a ripped six-foot unit but he looked like a child when he caught up with Boston Celtics big man Tacko Fall.

John Cena is hardly a small man but NBA cult hero Tacko Fall made the wrestling icon look positively tiny.

Cena stands at 6-feet (184cm) tall and the ripped WWE beast is packed with muscle, weighing 114kg. But he resembled a child next to Fall, the 226cm Boston Celtics star who has quickly established himself as a crowd favourite in his debut NBA season.

WWE SmackDown travelled to Boston on the weekend and the pair caught up before the main event at TD Garden, leading to a hilarious photo opportunity that quickly caught people’s attention on social media after their meeting was documented on the WWE website.

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EXCLUSIVE: 16-time World Champion @JohnCena and towering @celtics center @tackofall99 embrace backstage at Friday Night #SmackDown in Boston. pic.twitter.com/hO8sAu8CbS

— WWE (@WWE) February 29, 2020

Tacko makes John Cena look 5’6 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Eq05n3f9YA

— 🤠 #OleOut (@LukeUnitedd) February 29, 2020

Fall is the tallest player in the NBA and the sixth-tallest the league has ever seen, making for some comical images.

Last year basketball’s favourite big man recreated one of the NBA’s most iconic photos. In the 1980s, 231cm giant Manute Bol posed with his teammate and the league’s shortest player Muggsy Bogues (160cm), and in November Fall and the 178cm-tall Tremont Waters of G-League side Maine Red Claws did something similar.

Tacko Fall and Tremont Waters reenacted the Manute Bol-Muggsy Bogues picture 📸

(via @maineredclaws) pic.twitter.com/AJ08idlZvP

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) November 9, 2019

Fall’s novelty factor was in play at last month’s NBA All-Star weekend when Aaron Gordon pulled the Celtics star out of the crowd and jumped over him during the slam dunk contest — but the gravity-defying feat wasn’t enough for Gordon to win.

AARON GORDON OVER TACKO FALL 😱

Yet he lost by ONE point to Derrick Jones Jr. in the 2020 Slam Dunk Contest 😳 #NBAAllStar #NBA pic.twitter.com/QBfZBN2OU8

— ESPN5 (@Sports5PH) February 16, 2020