okay, my opinion of him has slightly changed after reading this:
After surviving a drug overdose in January 2009, Big Bald Mike decided to turn his life around and start rebuilding himself from the ground up. After spending the next 3 years failing over and over again at becoming successful, he had ballooned up to 571lbs and had developed heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. In January 2012, Mike decided that enough was enough and he wanted to live – he took immediate action and became inspired to follow a whole food plant-based diet, and start exercising. To this date, Mike has lost 142lbs and plans on losing another 129lbs to reach a goal of weighing 300lbs by January 2014. Mike’s transformation from drug addict to motivational speaker has inspired a documentary called “Wrestling Demons”, which will be released in Summer of 2014.