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Old 03-18-2008, 11:49 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by KingofOldSchool View Post
Oh and the guys you mentioned minus HBK and Punk (who aren't even cruiserweights) are either dead, injured, or not even with the company any more.
You thought I was being completely serious? Good lord, man...

But yes, they are all cruiserweights. CM Punk is billed as 222lbs; Shawn Michaels is still the smallest guy to win the WWE Championship ever; Eddie Guerrero, Chris Jericho, Gregory Helms, Tajiri and Spike Dudley were all cruiserweights who went on to win "heavyweight titles" of some form in the WWE.

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This isn't boxing and when is that last time any of those guys outside of Rey and Chavo have actually been put over on TV as a cruiserweight?
Well, just before he got injured, Gregory Helms was Cruiserweight Champion. Eddie Guerrero and Chris Jericho have won the belt in the past.

"But they're not put over now as cruiserweights!"

Fucking right. Which means it is all about perception. Technically, the guys I listed have all been cruiserweights at different points throughout their career (or still are), and have found at least moderate success elsewhere in the WWE. Many of them have been World Champions.

If you go around saying "Look at these cruiserweights," of course people are going to put limits on the guys. But if you stop putting them over as "small guys" and instead focus on their abilities, they can get over on their own merits, and people will eventually stop seeing them as being "too small."

It's not likely the WWE will do it, of course, but it's possible if they decided to go that route.
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