10 Massive Exaggerations In WWE
10. Weight
No, we’re not talking about Crash Holly’s "allegedly well over 400 lbs” billed weight when coming to the ring with a scale to prove it in tow.
More often than not weight for wrestlers is misrepresented to bolster their presence and impact, especially if they’re a giant. The Big Show was famously billed as weighing 500 pounds most of his career, regardless of whether he was visibly out of shape or he’d significantly slimmed down. Because 500 is a staggering number in mass, it makes him seem more impressive. WWE goes back and forth on billing wrestlers’ weight accurately and distorting it due to Vince McMahon’s infamous changing-his-mind-at-the-last minute routine (along with storylines, pushes, finishes and everything else).
In the early '10s, with some believing it was due to CM Punk and other talent speaking out on how WWE held smaller talent down and how the seeds were being planted for the Reality Era, WWE suddenly changed the billing of certain wrestlers to reflect their weight more accurately. So in the space on one week Sin Cara went from 196 to 170lbs whilst Christian went from 220 to 199lbs and The Great Khali somehow dropped 70 pounds and went from 420 to 347lbs.