>>9906146There's a couple of things one has to take into account with Magnum. Firstly, he was pushed very early into his carreer. So yes, the armdrags in this webm leave something to be desired, but he had only three years in the businness and was already main eventing the Sam Houston coliseum while getting huge reactions. He was only going to get better
Secondly, he got pushes in territories that didn't require the babyface to be a technical wizard. Mid-South was a territory build around big guys that had the Junkyard Dog as its figurehead for years, and Jim Crockett Promotions was build around heels that were great workers and babyfaces that were great personalities.
T.A was never going to be Jack Brisco or Lou Thesz in the ring, but he learned how to bounce off of heels like Wrestling II and Tully Blanchard, later on. His potential was tied more strongly to how he could've been build up and presented
>>9906159Wrestling II was around average height, it's just that everybody in Mid-South was huge. Still, he had been a mainstay of the territory by that point and easily one of its bigger stars
