11 Hot Takes On This Week In Wrestling (Dec 28)

3. He's More Of A Labrador, Really

While we're on the subject of Reigns... this may be elephant in the room time, and to be honest I'm not sure why this isn't a major talking point... but the 'Big Dog', the 'powerhouse', the 'juggernaut'... he's not a very big man, is he? Let's be clear, here - he's bigger than me, but then I'm about five eleven and the only time I've ever done any serious exercise I collapsed and briefly saw the face of God. No, Reigns isn't a small guy, but for a pro wrestler he's kind of average sized. Although he has excellent muscle definition, he's not jacked: underneath his succession of flak jackets, t-shirts and vests, he's actually fairly lean. He's also not that much taller than Ambrose or Rollins, and is clearly smaller than The Rock (who has never been billed under a powerhouse gimmick, and who almost dwarfed him at the close of the Royal Rumble this year). I get that when the Shield debuted, Reigns was the weak link, the inexperienced one that they were trying to develop on the job, and I understand that back then they urgently needed to give him something to set him apart... but if he's going to be in matches against genuinely massive guys like the Wyatts, then they need to settle down with all this nonsense about him being some kind of huge great beastie.