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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 03:29:46 No.4893452 View View Reply Original Report

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Why were wrestlers bigger 20-30 years ago? What happened to these type of guys, did they just disappear?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 03:31:14 No.4893469 Report

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>>4893452
Unironically micro-plastics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 03:33:33 No.4893497 Report

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>>4893452
Anon if you watch WWE you'd see 5 immobile massive shitters every week like Shanky, Omos, Azeez etc. Not any whites though

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 03:33:34 No.4893500 Report

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>>4893452
NXT only hired indy geeks so only indy geeks got to the main roster. WWE catered to smarks and killed their company. They haven't made a new star since Batista/John Cena 15 years ago.

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 03:34:50 No.4893515 Report

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>>4893452
many of them choose mma now, if mma was as big as it was in 1998 as it was in 2010 brock and angle wouldnt have ever wrestled.

>>4893500
/thread

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 03:36:28 No.4893532 Report

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>>4893497
Back then big guys were the norm. Like the mid card was full of random giant dudes, who were athletic for their size. Today's "average" guys would be cruiserweight jobbers back then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 03:44:02 No.4893606 Report

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Wrestling used to attract big professional athletes, NFL players, bodybuilders, strongman competitors, bouncers, and just big tough dudes. Nowadays it only attracts vanilla midget nerds who grew up watching and thought "hey, I could be a wrestler when I grow up".

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:06:56 No.4893797 Report

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>>4893452
Wrestlers used to be bullys and jocks, now they're nerds who got picked on for watching wrestling after it was no longer socially acceptable

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:12:19 No.4893852 Report

Quoted By: >>4893891 >>4899049

>>4893515
MMA heavyweights aren't even that big. They would've been considered as Light Heavyweights while at the WWE since most of them are just Shawn Michaels or Stone Cold size. That's why Brock had an easier time fitting in than Cm Punk did. Brock was naturally bigger than most of the competition while Punk was smaller.

I don't know where the fuck all the big guys have been going, but they're not in combat sports anymore. Boxers used to be huge too, to the point that Mike Tyson looked like a midget, because he was a midget fighting against titans.

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:15:20 No.4893891 Report

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>>4893852
>Boxers used to be huge too, to the point that Mike Tyson looked like a midget, because he was a midget fighting against titans.
Boxers are the biggest they've ever been. Since 2000 - Lennox Lewis, Klitschko Brothers, Nikolai Valuev, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder.
The smallest one of the bunch must be legit 6'6" or 6'7". 90s heavyweights like Holyfield would struggle with the size difference alone if he was active today, even though he had great skills.

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:16:49 No.4893903 Report

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>>4893891
2000 was like 30 years ago, dude.

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:20:23 No.4893932 Report

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>>4893469
This. Humans are getting smaller

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:25:33 No.4893966 Report

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If you're over 6'5'' and athletic these days, you're going to be trying to be a TE in the NFL or play in the NBA or some shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:33:26 No.4894038 Report

Quoted By: >>4894162 >>4894773

>>4893932
*White humans are getting smaller. Plastics are intentionally used with this effect in mind. The xeno-estrogens in microplastic are counteracted by high black testosterone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:48:44 No.4894153 Report

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>>4893500
>pushing Reigns
>catered to smarks

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:49:08 No.4894158 Report

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>>4893452
>What happened to these type of guys, did they just disappear?
they know they'd make far more money in real sports than in WWE

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:49:41 No.4894162 Report

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>>4894038

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:51:53 No.4894180 Report

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Steroids

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 04:52:12 No.4894183 Report

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>>4894162
Fuck you I tried
Does seem sus that something that feminizes men just so happens to be used absolutely everywhere though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 06:22:04 No.4894773 Report

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>>4894038

*blacks have higher estrogen, causing their effeminate behavior

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 07:30:04 No.4895264 Report

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Nathan Jones has to be the freakiest looking specimen of all time.

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 07:32:55 No.4895282 Report

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>>4895264
He was roided to the nines, and there was an infamous report in the old dirtsheets that he was discovered lactating from all the juice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 07:34:34 No.4895294 Report

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>>4895282
Kek what a Milky Kiwi

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 07:36:59 No.4895312 Report

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>>4893452
Wrestlers in early 2000s WWE were failed football and basektball players, and most of them were boring vanilla giants. You don't want that era back trust me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 07:37:43 No.4895322 Report

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>>4895282
Steroids won't turn you into a 6'10" guy with a huge frame\bone structure.

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 07:38:45 No.4895331 Report

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>>4895282
>>4895322

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 10:46:43 No.4896295 Report

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>>4895264
Cone Stold

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 10:54:00 No.4896347 Report

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>>4893606
No. Those guys didn't give one fuck about wrestling. Those guys were SCOUTED and told they could make a lot of money if they got into wrestling. So it peaked there interest.

Nowadays it's average guys that grew up on WWF as a kid. But the giant dudes didn't give one single fuck. And giant dudes today don't give a single fuck. But they're not being scouted today.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:00:39 No.4896378 Report

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>>4893469
Take your meds schizo Take your meds schizo

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:02:18 No.4896387 Report

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>>4895264
he's been gone too long

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:07:35 No.4896410 Report

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>when Lesnar is the smallest man on the team

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:39:13 No.4896585 Report

Quoted By: >>4896613

Anyone remember Heidenreich?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:40:37 No.4896591 Report

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Those guys can make much easier money elsewhere. Why would you enter a business that destroys your body when you can make similar or more money elsewhere with a lot less stress and wear?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:41:53 No.4896601 Report

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Vince chooses to hire fewer huge, jacked guys since the wellness policy because it looks bad and draws attention. Most of the roster is still on steroids however. Wellness policy is a PR gimmick

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:42:44 No.4896607 Report

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Fitness as a business has changed and now all you gotta do is get big, look somewhat handsome, and just shill supplements all day while running a YouTube channel.
They'd make way more money doing that than doing forward rolls while a 70 year old man gives them a Little Rascals gimmick.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:43:42 No.4896613 Report

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>>4896585
Michael Cole was raped

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 11:43:50 No.4896614 Report

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>>4893452
*sign with AEW*

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 12:32:59 No.4896912 Report

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>>4893452
Nathan Jones had one of the best looks of all time, crazy intensity, a dope theme, awesome intro promos and could throw fuckin spinkicks.
How can such a dimes package end up such a dimeless shitter? Him and Sean O'Haire should have been huge by 2004-05.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 12:39:00 No.4896955 Report

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>>4893452
Guys that would’ve wrestled went to other sports to make money. The big four had actual record profits. That, and endorsements went nuts. Guys can make their bag much easier thah wrestling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 15:05:02 No.4898192 Report

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>>4896614
Zero athleticism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 16:10:16 No.4898813 Report

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>>4893497
this

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 16:34:18 No.4899049 Report

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>>4893852
i think the size benefit in sports plateaus on its own. for many years in football or boxing being bigger than everyone else had a marked advantage but that starts a race to the bottom. eventually everybody is about the same size again except you're now way more likely to get concussed or otherwise injured because of the sheer amount of body mass involved. once that plateau is reached big dudes no longer have as much of an incentive to go into combat sports because the individual cost outweighs the potential benefit

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Anonymous Fri 18 Mar 2022 18:32:42 No.4900141 Report

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>>4893452
We need more big guys

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