If Kevin Steen...

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If Kevin Steen lost weight, he'd be a great wrestler.

I recently finished watching Ring of Honor's Final Battle 2008 (which I also attended) and I took particular interest in Kevin Steen & El Generico's match against The Age of the Fall. I was watching the way Kevin Steen moved around the ring, not only how he chained moves together but how he commanded the attention of the crowd. I remembered seeing a few of his matches on PWG Sells Out so I decided to watch that again and once again I saw a guy that knows how to work a crowd and craft a match.

His ability in the ring is quite good. He has pretty much everything it takes to be a great wrestler.

Great wrestler to me means an amazing worker, not necessarly world renown or in WWE. For example I think of Bryan Danielson, Alex Shelly & Christopher Daniels as amazing workers.

I think the thing that hurts Kevin Steen is that he is overweight. He's not in the position that a guy like Samoa Joe is. Someone like Joe simply shouldn't lose weight or else he'd totally lose his appeal (aka being a bad ass that is agile for his size). Kevin Steen would be better if he lost some weight or rather replaced fat with muscle.

If Kevin Steen, or "Mr. Wrestling" as his gimmick entails, were to gain muscle and lose fat not only would he be quicker and stronger in the ring he'd also be more asteticlly appealing. As it stands now he has to wear a bad looking siglet in his matches to hide his fat. If we were more toned and fit he'd be able to wear either regular trunks or something that looks more traditional. This would help him greatly to get more appeal amongst Indy fans atleast.

If he were to get into better astetic shape I think he could actually be bigger than just an indy star, he could probably make it all the way to WWE. The way he works the mic and the ring would really lend itself to a big market.

Don't get me wrong Steen is the goods as is but it just looked more in shape, he could be great.