>>13359848I unironically agree.
The need for huge jacked muscle men to be the only men in wrestling is pure bodybuilding Vinceism and closet homosexuality.
The reality is that wrestling is unironically a small man's sport.
The perfect wrestler would be short and stocky. Low center of gravity for greater balance and maneuverability and far greater in ring longevity due to less weight on legs and hip. This is why smaller guys can usually still wrestle into their 60s and bigger guys have trouble walking by 40.
Wrestlers aren’t all supposed to be Supermen. This was done purely to capture the female audience and gays went along for that ride.
Sammartino was 5’10”. Big men are supposed to be very rare spectacles, not the norm.
