Silly Little Guys Who Didn't Belong In WWE ?

5. The Road Warrior

Ronnie Garvin
WWE.com

There’s a strange phenomenon pro wrestling creates where how over the character is in the context of their career at the time can have an impact on how they look physically.

Jon Moxley was a man reborn in AEW and NJPW after Dean Ambrose found his impressive frame ground down and down and down again by WWE. Zack Ryder had that jacked body in WWE, but it’s not just because he’s literally a foot taller than most of the GCW roster than Matt Cardona looks so much bigger on the indies. Cody Rhodes’ final days in AEW are so stark in their differences to his following ones in WWE that you can scarcely believe he was an architect of the former.

Animal from The Road Warriors was one of the most dangerous men to ever paint the canvas with his opponents’ blood. Solid Gold Homer Simpson and Arnie’s Terminator meshed into one. 2006’s The Road Warrior, singles bully two decades past his prime was a silly little guy who didn’t belong in WWE. That’s just the way it works sometimes.

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