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Originally Posted by What Would Kevin Do?
Joe is looking worse and worse shape wise. But bleh.
Anyway, for his size, he does move well. Yeah, he's only so much heavier than The Rock, and HHH, but for the most part, he moves "quicker" than them. I don't see other people his size busting out a lot of Elbow Suicidas, jumping enziguris, etc. He also used to do a decent hurracurranna, but I think he's gotten far to big for that now.
Anyway, I'm going to go with it's becase he moves quicker than he looks like he should. He looks like a tubby blob right now, but he can still bust out a quick jumping enziguri, suicide dive, etc.
In regards to HHH and the Rock, they're probably "faster" than Joe, but Joe busts out moves that smaller people usually do. Take the ROck for example. He has his own pace. But back in the day, he'd bust out that little spin around DDT, and it looked really fast and crisp, faster and crisper than you would expect from someone his size. Not sure if you get what I'm saying or not, but I tried.
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Triple H and The Rock, while not small guys, never really did anything too athletic. I mean, Triple H has some great matches behind him, but when was the last time you saw him do a dive to the outside of the ring that sent AJ Styles flying across the floor?
It's not so much Samoa Joe's literal size, anyway. It's more how he uses it, and how it plays into his charisma, and yes, Joe does have charisma. There wouldn't be so much love for the guy if he didn't. The real motivation behind the "Joe is big" argument, is more like "Joe's going to kill you." Guys often give up a lot of size to him, and he's much closer to them in speed and athletic ability than they are to him in power.