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Does Alexa's size matter?

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#1 ·
Keeping up with the size fetish on this forum. Is Alexa Bliss as Raw womens champ the equivalent of Balor as Universal champ?

A lot of people turn their nose up at the idea of someone like Balor as Universal champ because he's "too small" and it's not "believable" but can't get enough of Alexa.
Does size matter for the women or is it okay for the sexy midget to rule the roost on Raw?
 
#3 ·
There's been a reasonable amount of criticism of Alexa's strong booking given her smaller stature, not as much as Balor obviously, but you do see some people here and there.

That said, i really don't think it matters, again, it's wrestling, the bigger wrestlers shouldn't always win, otherwise it'd be boring. Alexa has a lot of talent to make up for her shortage in size.
 
#11 · (Edited)
Size is never actually important in wrestling. There have been many "small" performers to be successful. Alexa as she is right now is a heel who often cheats to win which negates her size disadvantage. As a babyface it would be used to garner sympathy for her and she would the be a character who uses her guile and perseverance to overcome the exact same disadvantage. It can be used as a storytelling device. It really doesn't matter it's been proven over time with people like Michaels, Hart, Guerrero, Mysterio it is usually framed in such a manner that it is rendered moot by the way in which they become victorious.

People who use the size argument are people who are grasping at straws and are also the same people who would openly complain if nothing but bigger wrestlers won all the time.

As for the believability argument this is pro wrestling a show where people take 30 or forty unprotected shots to their head and never have a scratch on them afterwards nobody bitches and moans about that, yet somebody's height gets their panties all knotted up. Believability goes out the window so quickly when you look at things close enough. making it more realistic would actually hurt the product because it already suffers from a lack of mystique and any special aura and the more realistic it gets the less mystique there is about it. If you want to see fights between regular people that play out realistically go to a bar on a Saturday night. It's not entertaining it's just sad.
 
#12 ·
Yes, with the way she is being booked to dominate bigger women with higher skill levels. No, if she uses shenanigans or rule breaking to win at least most of the time. Yes, I'm consistent with this with the men as well. Is it unpopular around here? Of course it is. Don't care. I've heard the "it's a scripted show", "The Undertaker is a zombie" and the "what about Rey" arguments hundreds of times. Still don't care.
 
#16 ·
As long as they present the smaller wrestlers as doing or having something that the larger wrestlers have difficulty combating then it is fine. If Alexa were a babyface and she was wrestling Charlotte who is both bigger and more skilled all they need to do is present Alexa as either cunning or perseverant enough that she can overcome the perceived disparity in size and skill. Skill levels(in ring) are as inconsequential as size in pro wrestling as long as it presented well it isn't important.
 
#24 · (Edited)
I find her character to be kinda generic "bitchy heel" without any depth but in terms of threatening, no woman is threatening on the roster except for maybe Nia in some menacing lighting.

Balor doesn't look like a threat either, neither does Rollins, Styles, Owens etc... :shrug
 
#34 ·
Not necessarily. Taz was 5ft9 in ECW and was presented like a raging pitbull ready to rip your head off. Everyone believed he was legit.

Alexa doesn't look like Taz, but the same notion can apply to her. If she keeps showcasing her aggressivity then her size will eventually be something that you won't even think about. She's short, but somehow believable in the ring. I don't have any issue with her height.
 
#67 ·
People here are crazy. It's not like she's that much smaller than any of the other women on Raw. The only one she's much smaller than is Nia, who she acts out a perfect way to interact with someone that much bigger. She's not really doing anything that's any more unbelievable than anything else in wrestling.

Newsflash, wrestling is fake. If wrestling was real, Brock Lesnar would just take people down & KO them with punches, not German suplex them 10 times. Seriously, questioning the minor size differences realism in professional wrestling is crazy.
 
#41 ·
If they try and push the idea that she can out wrestle the bigger, stronger women then yes. If they make her really sell the "Poison Dwarf" aspect, then not so much. She looks great, so why not be honest and acknowledge her limitations. There is a place for all shapes and sizes in the women's division, and I hate cookie cutter female wrestlers, but let's not pretend she can dominate cleanly and have it not look like a total joke.
 
#85 ·
Size didn't matter then because HBK was an elite talent and it was clear he was more talented than almost all of his opponents, it's the same reason why Daniel Bryan got a pass in most of his feuds or why AJ Styles get a pass even though physically he's a lot smaller than most of the roster.

Bliss isn't only smaller than everyone she competes with, she's less talented as well and it's impossible to suspend disbelief that she can even compete with any of the other women on the roster.
 
#19 ·
AJ Lee is billed at 5'2". Alexa Bliss is billed at 5'1".
 
#10 ·
Not so much as cruiser weights compared to the regular male wrestlers because she's small but not so much smaller than anyone but Charlotte, Nia, and Tamina that it makes me incredulous that she'd even be in the ring with them. Now if she were to beat Nia without either shenanigans or a clear, obvious difference in skill level then it would be unbelievable, but so far, even against women she's more comparable in size against, she does shady things or is scared to fight with them, so it's not a big deal.
 
#37 ·
Bliss has that exact same issue.

For her current role her size does matter, WWE could book her different and it wouldn't be such a big issue but she's a terrible champion and always will be due to not being a belivable competitor against anyone.

I like AJ, she was infinitely more talented than Bliss, she was much better on the mic, understood the importance of character work and was obviously a better wrestler but still I didn't like her being champion for so long.

No women's division will ever be worth anything with Bliss as champion.
 
#21 ·
Her size isn't the issue here, this is wrestling after all. It has to do with her booking as of late, it just isn't believable. A heel like her should should be finding other ways to beat or make her opponents look bad, and not just dominate them the way she has the past 3 weeks. Wrestling ability is important too, if Alexa was one of the best in the world, no one would care that she was 5 foot tall, if she could find a way to out wrestler her opponents. If she was being used to her strengths, her size wouldn't be an issue at all.
 
#53 ·
Alexa has enough of a mean streak to compensate for being short. She always wrestles aggressively, and I particularly like her choke/STO thing where she death glares through her opponent's soul before slamming them to the mat. She's an angry little lady, and has athleticism to go with it with her Insult to Injury move- both shows athleticism and looks painful with the flip into the knees in the gut- and Twisted Bliss as her Hail Mary finisher.

...Writing that, she could probably use another finisher as a top heel now. Maybe a tornado DDT instead of just a regular one?
 
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