Hornswoggle

Hornswoggle is one of those wrestling acts I find genuinely fascinating because the gimmick could so easily have gone wrong, yet Dylan Postl made it work for years in WWE. Standing 135 cm, he turned his size into a whole comedic and storyline identity rather than a limitation, which takes real craft and timing. What I respect most is the longevity: he stayed valuable enough that WWE kept him on a legends contract, and he's still wrestling the independent scene as Swoggle, plus a run in Impact. That's a performer who understands his niche and keeps reinventing it. I'd argue he's underrated as a character worker.

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Name (English)

Hornswoggle

Name (Japanese)

ホーンズワグル

Reading

ほーんずわぐる

Born

May 29, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States

Height

135 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dylanpostl/
• Xhttps://x.com/wwehornswoggle
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornswoggle
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260056

Tags

• Wisconsin
• professional wrestler

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.