Um, why does Vince McMahon prefer big guys for male professional wrestlers?

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You would be surprised what you can look like when your livelihood depends on it, and with rigor and an appropriate diet. While many of the guys today are leaner than the Don Muraco’s and Superstar Billy Grahams of yesteryear, they are no les muscular or vascular in many cases.

They just looked less puffed up.

Either way, what does it matter. Hollywood gets no scrutiny for steroid use, and pro wrestling did and does. Watch Rocky Balboa with a 60 yeard old Sly Stallone and tell me he wasn’t on the juice.
 
does a male professional wrestler have to have inflated muscles in order to make it in the business?
Nowadays, yes.
Can a male pro wrestler really maintain such a look year-round without using anabolic steroids?
In my opinion, no. They may take HGH and/Testosterone and claim that they’re “Natural” but it’s still considered Performance Enhancing Drugs.
The average American male doesn’t need a huge, muscular physique in order to succeed in life, much less the WWE in particular.
Your average person isn’t a bodybuilder, professional wrestler, actor, athlete or model. The current trend is being huge and chiseled.
 
Because it’s showbiz. Who wants two see two noodle-armed twerps going at it?
 
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It’s like asking why Victoria secret models aren’t fat.
I think asking why lingerie models aren’t fat is a perfectly valid question. Since women of all sizes wear underwear, why not have women of all sizes modelling it? It’s ridiculous that Ali Tate Cutler is the first “plus-size” (i.e. average) Victoria’s Secret model. And she doesn’t even model for Victoria’s Secret per se, she models for the UK brand Bluebella, which has a partnership with Victoria’s Secret.
 
Um, is it all about the money, or is there something else at play? Bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.
There is a reason that real wrestling is broken into classes by weight . . . when you’re trying to haul one another about, weight is significant . . . now, when it’s all fake, well . . .

(oh, wait–you don’t believe, do you? :crazy_face: :roll_eyes: 🤣)
 
Maybe it’s because “professional” wrestling is for heavy weights, and weight classes tend to attract big guys. In the olden days in the MMA, there were no weight classes. This is because a master of Jujitsu could actually beat a much larger opponent. But, we’re not talking MMA here, we’re talking about a contrived wrestling program where looks sell. I might add that the Undertaker, one of the few wrestlers who is not an independent contractor in the wrestling industry, is not muscular - he is (or is he retired) just big.

(This has been a fun thread to read, by the way!)
 
Is it really that hard to figure out? Will crowds pay to see two 90 lb weaklings wrestle? It’s to give the impression that these are big, strong, he-man athletes going at each other. It’s not rocket science.
 
There are several wrestlers who aren’t as “hulked up” as you indicate. Aside from the aforementioned Rey Misterio and Daniel Bryan, there was also Kalisto and the very skinny Kofi Kingston (in comparison to Big E) who also won the champrionship. Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose never looked as bulky as, say Roman Reigns and Randy Orton, who are nowhere near the size of Braun Strowman, Brock Lesnar, and The Big Show.

The point is, they’re all playing a part. It’s all basically a live action cartoon. Remember the drama when Seth Rollins broke up The Shield? Remember how he basically became the McMahon’s puppet? Don’t you see the evil mad scientist with his own monster plotting to take over the world?

Yeah, doesn’t quite work with a much smaller, less bulky character!
 
As I’ve asked Irishmom2, does a male professional wrestler have to have inflated muscles in order to make it in the business? Can a male pro wrestler really maintain such a look year-round without using anabolic steroids? The average American male doesn’t need a huge, muscular physique in order to succeed in life, much less the WWE in particular.
Why do you care? In fact why should anyone care? You seems obsessed about this.
 
Go to YouTube and look for honky tonk man vs macho Man part 3 of 3. It has everything. Villainous villains, heroic heroes, a damsel in distress, enemies who become friends thru forgiveness. Get your popcorn first then pull up a chair. The silver age of pro rasslin!!
 
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Wrestlers are supposed to be larger than life. Loved wrestling in the 80s and 90s. Now I barely watch anything aside from NXT and NWA Powerrr. It’s hard to cheer for a guy that is 5 foot something and 100 something pounds. Hulkamania wouldn’t have ever been a thing if the Hulkster was the size of Johnny Gargano.
 
Can you imagine the unwatchability of two 5’4” 150lbs guys throwing chairs at each other!?
 
Perhaps they could use those little chairs from preschools snd kindergarten?

😱 :crazy_face: 🤣
 
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