CHRISTOPHER “BIG BLACK” BOYKIN

Christopher “Big Black” Boykin was an American musician who gained popularity through the reality TV show, Rob & Big. The show followed him and pro skateboard Rob Dyrdek, with episodes focusing on the two trying to accomplish a task. This includes attempts at breaking a world record to having an exorcism done in their home. Big was successful at breaking a Guinness record whilst filming—one for eating the most number of powdered-sugar doughnuts in less than three minutes and another for peeling and eating the most bananas within a minute.

Before his stardom, Big Black served in the US Navy and became Rob’s bodyguard. He was in the Rob & Big show until its 3rd season and decided to leave and start a family with his wife Shannon Turley. The couple went on their separate ways shortly because of Big’s worsening condition. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 45. We just hope that he got insurance to secure her daughter’s future.