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.