[JackArmstrong]

During his early days in wrestling, Shawn Michaels was billed as a 240-pounder, when just by looking at the man, he was evidently nowhere near that. Even the 225lb billing was too high.

More recently, Ryback was billed as close to 300lbs, which is also total nonsense. I doubt that he was much higher that 250.

Scott Hall in his prime was billed at 6'7", 287lbs. In reality, he looked no more than 6'4", 240lbs.

Also, Kane is certainly not 7'0". He's always looked around 6'7" to me.

Can anyone think of any other heights/weights that are clearly exaggerated?

 

[Seafort]

Hulk Hogan, billed as 6' 8". Actual height 6'5"

Andre the Giant, billed as 7'5". Actual height closer to 6'11.

Here's Andre compared to Wilt Chamberlain:

 

[Hencheman_21]

In HBK's day they included the weight of ones ego. :draper2

 

[★Th0t Patr0L★]

Kane is definitely closer to 6'7, just looks at pics of him and Swagger together.

Talents nowadays still have the numbers fudged a tad, but not nearly as much as they used to.

 

[Cooper09]

Crash Holly at 'Allegedly' 400 pounds

 

[MC]

Crash Holly at 'Allegedly' 400 pounds

That was legit.


All the numbers are completely fake. Most of them are around 210 at most. If you look at mma fighters, they built as f**k especially the light heavyweight division. Just look at Jon Jones, he is a light heavyweight fighter which is 205, are you telling me that Jon Jones who is bigger then all the roster weighs less then them no. The cruiserseights are around 170 average, and the heavyweights 200. There are a few real heavyweights like brock lesnar who dwarfs John cena, reigns, which proves my point that they are around 200-210.

 

[JackArmstrong]

I think that André the Giant's hair also gave him a lot of extra height.

Triple H is around 6'2". I think that they billed him as high as 6'6" in his WCW days. WWE usually put him at 6'4".

As for weights, I'm sceptical of Sami Zayn's 215lbs. He looks similar in size to Finn Balor.

 

[JafarMustDie]

Finn Balor is billed as 5'11, he is 5'7
Kenny Omega is billed as 6', he is 5'7/5'8 (I met him)

Also Karl Anderson, Chris Jericho, AJ Styles, Enzo Amore, Xavier Woods, etc are nowhere near 6', they are probably around 5'7/5'8

Kevin Owens looks 5'9

Daniel Bryan looks 5'5/5'6

They actually do go as far as adding 4 inches to some wrestlers' height

 

[validreasoning]

Balor is taller than styles so taller than 5'7. I met Bryan in person and he isn't shorter than 5'7. Jericho's a solid 5'9 in person and actually a built dude

Kurt angle was billed 6'2 and his peak was 5'10 which he admitted he looks shorter now as 6'2.5 nfl measured reigns completely dwarfed him Monday night, looked 6-7 inches shorter not just 4.

Rybacks a monster in person. I saw him and Cena together in street clothes and ryback looked 50lb heavier

 

[Laughable Chimp]

During his early days in wrestling, Shawn Michaels was billed as a 240-pounder, when just by looking at the man, he was evidently nowhere near that. Even the 225lb billing was too high.

More recently, Ryback was billed as close to 300lbs, which is also total nonsense. I doubt that he was much higher that 250.

Scott Hall in his prime was billed at 6'7", 287lbs. In reality, he looked no more than 6'4", 240lbs.

Also, Kane is certainly not 7'0". He's always looked around 6'7" to me.

Can anyone think of any other heights/weights that are clearly exaggerated?

Kane and Cass around the same height and Cass has gone on record saying his actual height is 6 foot 11. And Kane was always taller than Taker so if he really was 6 foot 7 then that means Taker is something like 6 foot 5 which is just not true.

 

[Piehound]

Years and years ago they billed Hogan even taller. I saw him live in a Florida house show before he joined up with Vince and he was billed at 7ft tall.

 

[IDidPaige]

Andre's probably the biggest example, with probably a 6" height exaggeration (6'11"ish to 7'5").

Hogan's 6'3", tops, and was billed at 6'8" in his prime.

Kamala always had an absurdly-exaggerated height. Billed at 6'7", but shorter than Hogan (although, Kamala wrestler barefoot).

Big Cass was listed as 6'8" on his college basketball profile. Very tall, obviously, but well short of 7'.

Kane is even worse, as mentioned earlier. He's probably 6'7", legit, billed at 7'. Another 5" exaggeration.

Giant Gonzalez looks to have been 7'6", and was billed at 8'.

 

[validreasoning]

Kane and Cass around the same height and Cass has gone on record saying his actual height is 6 foot 11. And Kane was always taller than Taker so if he really was 6 foot 7 then that mean Taker is something like 6 foot 5 which is kust not true.

Cass was listed 6'8 in basketball. It's obvious he isn't 6'11 as he was 3 inches shorter than a broken down big show Monday night
https://web.archive.org/web/20160113032124/http://gonyuathletics.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=24
As far kane he wore massive platforms in the 1990s to look taller

Here as unibomb he looks similar to undertaker

 

[Dibil13]

Sheamus being billed as 6'6'' for a while. Laughable.

 

[MonkasaurusRex]

Cass was listed 6'8 in basketball. It's obvious he isn't 6'11 as he was 3 inches shorter than a broken down big show Monday night
https://web.archive.org/web/20160113032124/http://gonyuathletics.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=24
As far kane he wore massive platforms in the 1990s to look taller

Here as unibomb he looks similar to undertaker

That "Undertaker" in the video is Brian Lee.

 

[RatedR10]

Ambrose's 6'4" billing always made me laugh.

 

[JafarMustDie]

Balor is taller than styles so taller than 5'7. I met Bryan in person and he isn't shorter than 5'7. Jericho's a solid 5'9 in person and actually a built dude

Kurt angle was billed 6'2 and his peak was 5'10 which he admitted he looks shorter now as 6'2.5 nfl measured reigns completely dwarfed him Monday night, looked 6-7 inches shorter not just 4.

Rybacks a monster in person. I saw him and Cena together in street clothes and ryback looked 50lb heavier

I met Kushida, he is 5'6 with shoes, here's Finn standing next to him

 

[JackArmstrong]

Kane and Cass around the same height and Cass has gone on record saying his actual height is 6 foot 11. And Kane was always taller than Taker so if he really was 6 foot 7 then that means Taker is something like 6 foot 5 which is just not true.

'Taker always looked around 6'7" or 6'6.75" to me.

As for 'Taker always being taller than Kane, that really all depends on the camera angle. Some shots of the two clearly show them to be around the same height. Kane's boots helped his height at time too.

Another one is Mick Foley's billing at 6'4'' in TNA. The guy was nowhere near that height. His WWE billing of 6'2" was closer, but still probably too high. I'd say about 6'0.75" for Mickles, with his hair giving him a bit extra.

 

[validreasoning]

That "Undertaker" in the video is Brian Lee.

Nah that's mark Calaway. Brian Lee was supposedly around 6'3-6'4

I met Kushida, he is 5'6 with shoes, here's Finn standing next to him

Unless he is standing on a box with HHH I can't buy 5'7 for Balor. Never met him so can't be 100% sure but based off tv where balor was noticeably taller than Neville 5'7 seems too short

'Taker always looked around 6'7" or 6'6.75" to me.

As for 'Taker always being taller than Kane, that really all depends on the camera angle. Some shots of the two clearly show them to be around the same height. Kane's boots helped his height at time too.

Another one is Mick Foley's billing at 6'4'' in TNA. The guy was nowhere near that height. His WWE billing of 6'2" was closer, but still probably too high. I'd say about 6'0.75" for Mickles, with his hair giving him a bit extra.

Mick's a deceptively big dude, especially during his prime. I met him in 2006 and he looked about 6'2-6'3 and close to 300lb. He looks about same height as rock in 1999 and couple inches taller than Austin in beyond the mat and Austins not a small guy either

Mick's broken down in 2017 and can barely walk

 

[Jam]

Kane wore like platforms didn't he?

Cass obviously