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Which really is what this is about; at least someone like Big Dave does his strongman competitions, so trains his body towards an athletic pursuit. All three individuals you mention bring some physical strength to the role, which is basically to throw people up and down.
But what does our (hypothetical) scrawny friend bring to the party? He looks like he hasn't seen the inside of a gym in his life, or if he has, he saw it once and didn't like it. The lack of flesh on his skeleton-like form suggests he has a diet with the nutritional content of a lego brick. He could make a Spike Dudley-_style_ feature out of it, but that joke'll wear thin quickly if everyone's doing it in order to avoid working at their fitness.
Even in these days when everyone's in on (basicly) what's real and what isn't, pro-wrestling still is, or at least should resemble, a sport. Professional sportsmen in any discipline (not counting pastimes such as darts or snooker) have to work at their fitness in order to do the job. Long distance runners and jockeys both tend to be small men, but they are fit, and the muscles they need are developed to the necessary degree. Featherweight boxers aren't scrawny; on the contrary, they work hard to keep within the weight by making sure that what is there is muscle. All of the above have to work on stamina, over the course of a couple of hours for runners and jockeys, and balancing long term stamina with the ability to go full pelt for the duration of a three-minute round for boxers. In short, professional sportsmen would consider it unbelievably slack for someone to describe themselves as such and to not at least make some effort in terms of diet and exercise. Hell, even snooker p_layer_s do it.
Since I'm not a wrestler myself, I'll have to ask the wrestlers here to answer this. If you've made the effort to work on your physical fitness and you find yourself in the ring with an unfit, underweight slip of a human being, would you be happy losing to them? I daresay you'd need to get up for them any time they did an offensive move; would you trust someone without the necessary strength to throw you safely? Would you worry the guy might not have the stamina to make it through the match without blowing up from exhaustion? And would you resent having to work harder to carry an unfit opponent just because he couldn't be bothered to turn up to fight in decent physical condition?
Even if the answer to all the above is yes, as a spectator in the audience who's just watched a scrawny kid puffing air like the little train who couldn't beating up a larger, more muscular (not necessarily in bodybuilding terms, I mean the muscles that you use) man.. the suspension of disbelief does take a bit of a knocking.
Incidentally, who's volunteering to go up to Johnny Saint and tell him he's the role model of scrawny wrestlers everywhere? Let us know afterwards if you managed to outrun him.
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