10 Massive Exaggerations In WWE

9. Height

WWE have used camera tricks to enhance wrestlers’ height for decades. Like in backstage segments they’ll deliberately use correspondents who are particularly small to interview talent to make them come across as larger than life. It particularly helps when Renee Young forgoes shoes to interview. Or when, in his feud with Hulk Hogan, WWE had Andre the Giant stand on boxes and filmed him from the waist up to make him look more gigantic than he already was.

There was once the understanding Vince McMahon only pushed wrestlers who were over 6’3" in height. But as first saw with Bret and Shawn in the '90s and Guerrero and Benoit in the '00s, then Punk and Bryan in the '10s, this isn’t necessarily true. Mind, this doesn’t stop WWE from stretching the truth and putting a few extra feet on wrestlers billed heights. You can argue some wrestlers who have the right talent don’t need it as their intensity gives off the feeling their much bigger than they actually are, like Dynamite Kid and Pete Dunne. If you’re ever in doubt about a superstar's billed height in WWE and need a barometer, look to see if they ever square off against Randy Orton, who is secretly tall and towers over fans.

Big Cass’s entire gimmick was being seven feet tall (“And you can't teach that!”) when in actuality he noted on Steve Austin’s podcast he was really 6’9". Giant Gonzales was billed as 8 ft throughout his wrestling career though he was measured legitimately as 7’6" by the Guinness World Records for the record ‘World’s Tallest Professional Wrestler’. Even in NXT today, Adam Cole is billed at 6 ft tall, which is absurd for anyone with eyes.