10 Wrestlers Who Are The Most Overrated At Precisely One Thing
9. Braun Strowman: Playing The Agile Big Man
Braun Strowman is good at what he does in short, big dumb fun bursts - and Christ knows that wrestling on the whole needs to get on with it and move on from an endless procession of back-and-forth matches - but the idea that he's an agile big man is just...wrong.
He's not the Great Khali or anything, but then again, what a low bar. Michael Cole is constantly amazed by Strowman's ability to actually move in a non-Yetay way, but it's not one of his more credible calls.
Strowman isn't one of the most agile and dynamic modern hosses. Lance Archer is better at wowing crowds with outrageous feats of which he has no physical right, Jeff Cobb is 100 times the worker, and Keith Lee, despite being past his physical prime, is so talented at a core level that he can work great matches while carefully measuring his jaw-dropping high spots. Strowman meanwhile runs around the ring in an inelegant, almost comedic way, as if he wants to prove that he isn't El Gigante.
He's not even an agile big man by the standards of a bygone era. And that's fine - nobody expects him to be Vader - but they talk about him like he's Vader. And he's not Vader.
It's pure marketing.