Legit Height of Certain wrestlers......

[Guest AndrewTS]

I dunno. You could think that he's over 7" when he's only like 6'10" because it's really rare to see people that big.

I know I'm only 6'4". I say only because I'm so used to gigantic wrestlers but everyone tells me I'm f'n huge.

I hear ya, being "only" 6'3" myself.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Yeah I know. People will be like "dude your gigantic" and I'll be like......not really. And having broad shoulders people always ask me if I play football, which I don't. And on top of that I go to OU. Jeez.....I'd be Jim Ross's wet dream. I can imagine if i wrestled.

"This 6'6, 300 pound hoss that was a linebacker at OU! He's a good ole boy that likes country music and homecooking!"

 

Well I'm 6'4" 250, I don't play football, I hate country music, and I eat fast food every damn day. But hey that probably wouldn't matter to JR. Hehehe.

[Guest SP-1]

I don't know why they announce him like that. I mean, there is always room for error in my perception, but when Paul Wight gets up, he keeps getting up. It's amazing. My step brother is 6'2" or so, and Show pretty much made him look like some short guy.

[Guest Kojack]

What about the Holly's?

Couple of years ago they were billed at way over 500 pounds.

Har Har Har

(I know it was an angle)

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Well I remember when they said they wouldn't face anyone under 6'8", 400 lbs. and Kane walked out and they fought him. WTF? When did Kane start waying 400 lbs?

[Guest CanadianChris]

It's not polite to reveal a woman's statistics.

They used to, though. I remember the Moolah-McIntyre match at WM 2 got the full intro.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

It's not polite to reveal a woman's statistics.

They used to, though. I remember the Moolah-McIntyre match at WM 2 got the full intro.

As did the Blayze/Kai match from WrestleMania 10.

 

Besides, I'd like to hear the announcement...

 

"From (whatever her hometown is), weighing 140 pounds...the WWE Women's Champion, Molly Holly!"

[Guest CED Ordonez]

But then you'd have to announce Stacy Keibler at whatever double-digit weight she's at right now.

[Guest Sassquatch]

This has always been a rule amongst wrestling promoters that has been around since the days of Gotch, Londos, and Evan "The Strangler" Lewis.

 

A wrestler will usually have 2 inches added to their legit height to make them seem taller than they really are.

 

If a wrestler is 6'8" or taller, a promoter can make them as big as he wants (within reason) which was the case with many wrestler's.

 

Andre the Giant was a confirmed 6'10" when he was alive but was billed anywhere from 7'3" to 7'8" when he was wrestling around the world. This applies to former atheletes who went into professional wrestling as well. Ernie "The Big Cat" Ladd was billed anywhere from 6'10" to 7'2" when he first started wrestling even though his football stats said he was 6'9 when he did play.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Andre the Giant was a confirmed 6'10" when he was alive but was billed anywhere from 7'3" to 7'8" when he was wrestling around the world.

That depends on when his height was checked. I think he shrunk over the years.

[Guest LatinoHeat]

How often do they check the heights?

[Guest MillenniumMan831]

Well I remember when they said they wouldn't face anyone under 6'8", 400 lbs. and Kane walked out and they fought him. WTF? When did Kane start waying 400 lbs?

The team of Viscera and Rikishi BARELY made it at Armageddon 1999. I still get a mild chuckle out of Lawler / JR's exchange:

 

Lawler: I think these Holly Cousins wanted to fight some REAL superheavyweights!

JR: Well, can you think of any 2 guys bigger?

Lawler: Ummmm . . . no.

 

Not funny on paper, but I was a mark for that gimmick.

[Guest Sassquatch]

That depends on when his height was checked. I think he shrunk over the years.

 

When Andre first started out wrestling in 1964 in France, he was 6'10" (which was confirmed by his brother in a French newspaper after Andre had passed away in 1993).

 

Andre's brother said that Andre was listed as being 6'9" by the medical examiners which meant that Andre shrunk about an inch from his original height.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

So is Big Show taller than Andre was?

And another thing. UT has got to be around the height they bill him at b/c he's pretty close to Big Show.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Weird...if Andre was only 6'10...they must have given him lifts in his shoes.

 

Cause he was WAY taller than Hogan was in their WrestleMania 3 match...though I don't know how tall Hogan is legit.

[Guest Sassquatch]

I have met Big Show and Hogan in person and for the legit height of the Big Show, I can confidently tell you that he is about 6'10" as him and I were looking at each other eye-to-eye when I met him backstage at a WWF House Show in March of '01.

 

When I met Hogan at a WCW House Show in August of 1998 he wasn't taller than 6'4"/6'5" which isn't short in wrestling and is one of the most desired sizes of wrestler's (not too short but not to tall).

[ChrisMWaters 0]

When I met Hogan at a WCW House Show in August of 1998 he wasn't taller than 6'4"/6'5" which isn't short in wrestling and is one of the most desired sizes of wrestler's (not too short but not to tall).

Aah...interesting...

 

But probably right, unlike the 6'7-6'8 they used to bill him as.

[Guest Sassquatch]

Let me put it this way:

 

At a comic book convention in '96, Hogan was signing autographs as one of the special gusts there. Former Incredible Hulk TV actor/bodybuilder Louis Ferrigno was also there signing autographs and pimping his Hulk cartoon show. Hogan had gotten up to grab a bite to eat when as he was walking back to his booth he spotted Ferrigno. The two of them greeted one another and shook hands. Ferrigno was a legit 6'5" when he was a bodybuilder who weighed anywhere from 300 pounds to 310 which was his maximum weight. Hogan and him were the practically the same size with very little height difference between them. When this meeting between the Hulk's took place, I imagine that Ferrigno would have probably been about 6'4" since he was 44 at the time when the convention took place.

[Guest SP-1]

Chris, Molly is from Mount Pleasant here in SC. Not very from from me. They actually announced it when RAW came to Charleston and she wrestled some jobber chick, and Molly got a nice hometown reaction throughout the match.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Chris, Molly is from Mount Pleasant here in SC. Not very from from me. They actually announced it when RAW came to Charleston and she wrestled some jobber chick, and Molly got a nice hometown reaction throughout the match.

Aaah, I see.

 

Would be nice to see her announced like that...

[Guest SP-1]

Agreed. I wouldn't mind seeing Big Show announced as from SC, either. We tend to get shafted on stuff like that.

 

Unless Show is announced like that and I just never catch it.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Agreed. I wouldn't mind seeing Big Show announced as from SC, either. We tend to get shafted on stuff like that.

 

Unless Show is announced like that and I just never catch it.

Yeah...I don't think that the Big Show has EVER been given a hometown.

 

Not in WCW when he was The Giant, and not in WWF/E as the Big Show.

[Guest webmasterofwrestlegame]

And on the other side of things....is Spike Dudley more or less than 150lbs. Or God-forbid WWE bill him truthfully, and he is 150lbs!

 

I say more. Just.

[Guest SP-1]

Fittingly enough for this thread, I think WWF/E always leave a hometown out in favor of adding emphasis to the 7', 500lbs stats.

 

Oh well.

[Guest PhillyDogg]

I believe The Giant was from the ever famous location of "Parts Of Unknown" and The Big Show is from Tampa Florida.

[Guest PhillyDogg]

I think the only current WWE wrestler thats from parts unknown is Kane, but when he debuted they should of said he was from Death Valley.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

And on the other side of things....is Spike Dudley more or less than 150lbs. Or God-forbid WWE bill him truthfully, and he is 150lbs!

 

I say more. Just.

I think that ECW was the first to say that he was 155 pounds.

 

I think I heard he's really 180 something.

[Guest SupaTaft]

On the A&E biography of Andre the Giant, they said that at his death he was 7'4 and weighed 485 pounds. His medical condition said that he never stopped growing so when he first started out he very well could have been 6'10 but in his WWF glory days he was most likely a legit 7'2 though billed as 7'4. When he was 18 he was 6'6.

 

Gonzales is the fuckin' man.

 

-Taft

[Guest Sassquatch]

The A&E Biography's on professional wrestling are heavily kayfabed for the most part as they left out many important facts about certain wrestler's and the promotions.

 

In order to not ruin the legend of Andre, the WWF asked A&E to keep Andre's real height be kept a secret as to not ruin the image that he had been given. Andre did weigh over 500 pounds when he did die in 1993 which was obese for even someone of his size.

 

The thing that almost blew Andre's cover was when Andre was at a Lakers game in LA. Andre was apparently a big fan of Wilt Chamberlin's and wanted a picture with him. Andre stood next to Wilt who was a legit 7'4" and it was very apparent that Andre was shorter than Wilt. This picture made the rounds in the local newspaper when a reporter got a hold of it which broke kayfabe for many WWA LA fans who had seen Andre wrestle.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Gonzales the f'n man? Wha!? In what universe!?