7 Reasons Why Being A "Big Man" Is Not Best For Business In WWE

6. You Can't Draw Sympathy From The Crowd

One of the most difficult things for tall and strong wrestlers to do is find ways to make the crowd believe that they're in peril. There's a good reason why much of WWE's 1980s strategy involved Hulk Hogan fighting 500-pound evildoers. As a 300-pound babyface, Hogan selling for anything less than a 500-pound bad guy would likely have been quite difficult to believe. It's hard for a tall and big ass-kicker to be seen as anything less than being able to wreck shop at the drop of a hat when say, being pushed around by someone smaller than him. To do this with any level of excellence is a unique skill that very few wrestlers have ever been able to master. So, while yes, it may be completely unfair to expect someone to be really great at a skill than roughly 10% of all wrestlers ever have actually excelled. However, it's totally a skill that unless a few gifted WWE big men can excel at mastering, that will ultimately hold back all big men from succeeding at a higher level in the future of WWE.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.