t's no secret that wrestling companies increase their wrestler's physical attributes to give them a larger-than-life-appearance.
You sometimes find very different information about wrestler's sizes and weights an that kept me puzzling once in a while.
Ferbian said in that Cruiserweight Division thread that the heights are verified (I guess he means they're real). That confused me because I thought it was public knowledge that wrestlers are usually smaller than what they're made and I know Ferbian as a well-informed poster.
I once read about a "two inch rule", which means wrestlers are billed about two inches taller than they're in reality and that around 15 to 30 pounds are added to their weight, depending on what effect should be achieved. Some heights even changed over time. I also heard that they hire smaller referees on purpose and have other procedures to strenghten that effect.
There are some stats where I really wondered, for example the Miz being eight pounds heavier than Morrison, ten pounds heavier than Punk and only nine pounds lighter than Cena, all at he same height. And I seem to remember a 5'3"-Mysterio and a 7'-Undertaker, now being 5'7" and 6'10". I have read that Cena admitted being only 6' tall, although billed at 6'2". MVP being heavier than Trips seems to be a bit odd, too. But maybe that's just me.
The questions:
Can you say something about WWE's practice to announce wrestlers' attributes, for example common rules of adding weight or height and how extremely they fake?
Do you know about visual aids they use to let their stars appear taller?
Or are you informed about different handles in different promotions?
Are you aware of wrestlers that changed the promotion and immediately grew or shrunk?
Or do you even know real heights or weights of wrestlers which vary strongly from the real values or did you personally meet wrestlers where you were astounded by their real height?
You sometimes find very different information about wrestler's sizes and weights an that kept me puzzling once in a while.
Ferbian said in that Cruiserweight Division thread that the heights are verified (I guess he means they're real). That confused me because I thought it was public knowledge that wrestlers are usually smaller than what they're made and I know Ferbian as a well-informed poster.
I once read about a "two inch rule", which means wrestlers are billed about two inches taller than they're in reality and that around 15 to 30 pounds are added to their weight, depending on what effect should be achieved. Some heights even changed over time. I also heard that they hire smaller referees on purpose and have other procedures to strenghten that effect.
There are some stats where I really wondered, for example the Miz being eight pounds heavier than Morrison, ten pounds heavier than Punk and only nine pounds lighter than Cena, all at he same height. And I seem to remember a 5'3"-Mysterio and a 7'-Undertaker, now being 5'7" and 6'10". I have read that Cena admitted being only 6' tall, although billed at 6'2". MVP being heavier than Trips seems to be a bit odd, too. But maybe that's just me.
The questions:
Can you say something about WWE's practice to announce wrestlers' attributes, for example common rules of adding weight or height and how extremely they fake?
Do you know about visual aids they use to let their stars appear taller?
Or are you informed about different handles in different promotions?
Are you aware of wrestlers that changed the promotion and immediately grew or shrunk?
Or do you even know real heights or weights of wrestlers which vary strongly from the real values or did you personally meet wrestlers where you were astounded by their real height?