Seriously this is like someone whose a complete idiot that's never watched wrestling wouldn't even say because they'd know about Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan & The Rock at least.
Up until very recently smaller guys couldn't even break into wrestling. Back in the 80s guys like the Rock n' Roll Express were considered "small" and they're both (billed anyways) at 5'11 & ~225 lbs.
Wrestling giants can throw off a person's perspective. Edge is 6'5" and around 240 pounds, he'd be the biggest and most jacked guy in 9 bars out of 10 on a Saturday night, but he looks normal when he's around gigantic walls of muscle like John Cena.
Yeah, that's standard journalistic ignorance. The writer probably watched part of a single episode for some context on what he was writing, saw some spot monkeys flipping around, and assumed that was standard. Meanwhile in the real world, Shawn Michaels was an extreme outlier and everyone else his size would be very lucky to be booked for an occasional short IC title run.
Next time you see a journalist writing about something you don't know about, be sure to remember how laughably wrong they were when writing about something you do know about. You can never trust those losers to properly research a topic before writing and publishing about it.
Seriously this is like someone whose a complete idiot that's never watched wrestling wouldn't even say because they'd know about Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan & The Rock at least.
Up until very recently smaller guys couldn't even break into wrestling. Back in the 80s guys like the Rock n' Roll Express were considered "small" and they're both (billed anyways) at 5'11 & ~225 lbs.
Wrestling giants can throw off a person's perspective. Edge is 6'5" and around 240 pounds, he'd be the biggest and most jacked guy in 9 bars out of 10 on a Saturday night, but he looks normal when he's around gigantic walls of muscle like John Cena.
Yeah, that's standard journalistic ignorance. The writer probably watched part of a single episode for some context on what he was writing, saw some spot monkeys flipping around, and assumed that was standard. Meanwhile in the real world, Shawn Michaels was an extreme outlier and everyone else his size would be very lucky to be booked for an occasional short IC title run.
Next time you see a journalist writing about something you don't know about, be sure to remember how laughably wrong they were when writing about something you do know about. You can never trust those losers to properly research a topic before writing and publishing about it.
Scott D'Amore talked about the evolution of wrestling so succintly.