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He would've been advertised by the travelling circus (freak show) as the world's fattest but they had no way to know who in fact was the world's fattest.
Sure but the point is that this was fat enough to get people to come look at him at the freak show and now he's a fairly average American.
That's true I guess, but he may have just been a side show for the bearded lady.