Promoters have always announced their talent as taller and heavier than they actually are; the logic being that it impresses the audience - but in truth it is an unnecessary lie. Guys like Big Show are clearly huge and impressive already, and it isn't really required to exaggerate his weight. Yet for most of Paul 'Big Show' Wight's career he was announced as the hilariously ridiculous weight of 500 pounds. There is no way that the Big Show was ever 500 pounds - he was in the 400's range certainly, but a 500 pound man was pushing the exaggeration even by WWE's standards. It has happened throughout wrestling history: Andre the Giant was billed as 7 foot 5 at some points when he was in fact just under 7 foot; Hulk Hogan was billed in height as 6'8 when he was in fact 6'6, and when Undertaker debuted who was an actual 6'8 the WWE made him a 6'10. Vince McMahon remains convinced that bigger and heavier men are the talent who will draw interest. He has mellowed on his giant crushes in the last decade and pushed smaller talents, but his preference is still for guys who are larger than life. Nevertheless, with smaller guys like Daniel Bryan having carved out success in the 'land of the giants,' weight and height are becoming more and more irrelevant to the audience.
