Poll: Your thoughts on Pro Wrestling?

[The Brian J]

I was just wondering what everyone else thinks of Pro Wrestling.

I'm a big time pro wrestling fan myself, and have been since 1997. I'm more into the indy side of pro wrestling (If you've seen the movie The Wrestler, that kind of wrestling...tiny shows with guys you've never heard of).

I also think that wrestling gets a really bad rap a lot. People just hear about it and laugh and say it's fake, thinking that they're being clever, when the fact is that even the most powerful man in the wrestling industry, Vince McMahon, openly admits that it's staged and that it's an entertainment rather than a sport.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Other. It's so fake it's funny because it's bad, yet it's awesomely good at the same time.

 

[Sparrow]

I can't watch anything faker than Katie Price's rack.

OH YES A TITS JOKE. I WENT THERE.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

I used to like it when I was eleven. That should be a good indicator of the mindset of most pro-wrestling fans.

It's pretty much a soap opera for men, complete with big sweaty muscle men rolling on each other while wearing spandex thongs.

 

[Zacharine]

Pro wrestling? You mean as in the greek-roman wrestling on professional level, cause what other kind of wrestling is there?

 

[Hippobatman]

Other. It's so fake it's funny because it's bad, yet it's awesomely good at the same time.

That, exactly that.

Used to be a fan when I was younger, but then someone told me it was fake.

 

[Legion]

If it wasn't for all the tools back in school trying to convince me it was real then I reckon I would have carried on watching it beyond the age of 11, just for the laughs.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I've never forgiven myself for giving my little brother a piledriver when I was 10...

Despite being a terrible influence on dumb impressionable kids, I think it's awesome... so what if it's fake, it's amazing acrobatic theatre and it satisfies a human insitnctive need to watch big tough men beat the shit out of eachother.

I also get a chuckle from how unbelievably homo-erotic all of the Wrestling moveset and iconography is, which went completely over my head as a kid.

It sure beats having real gladiators hacking eachother's limbs off.

The fact that it is fake makes it BETTER.

 

[sky14kemea]

i used to love wrestling, and when i heard it was fake, i still thought "well you have to be pretty tough to be able to pile drive each other without seriously hurting anyone" XD
i dont watch it anymore, all my fav wrestlers are long gone, but i have nothing against it

 

[chronobreak]

Most people here don't like it, you'll soon find out. I work in wrestling myself, we have a TV show here for Charter Communications, and I do commentary and interviews, and sometimes even take a few bumps for the company's sake. It's a rough life, and a tough way to make a living, and it simply doesn't get appreciated as much as it should be.

Also, I've gotten to meet and work with a lot of cool people, like Abby, Jake Roberts, Gorgeous George (fun times with her), Savio Vega, DLO, Most of the ECW guys, Most of the ROH guys, Samoa Joe, CM Punk, Big Show... Some of them are cool, some are not, but it's just great for me being a fan and getting to work with people in that capacity, where it's not just like you're a mark or anything.

 

[kaziard]

Other. It's so fake it's funny because it's bad, yet it's awesomely good at the same time.

That, exactly that.

Used to be a fan when I was younger, but then someone told me it was fake.

this, i watched it again for the first time in years and the sheer amount of bad acting made me cringe :/

 

[Zacharine]

Oh, so all of you mean that fake theatre thingy called WWE or something.

No, it's not entertainment, it's even less of a sport than Curling (sliding polished rocks on ice....seriously? who thought of that?) and it's not even good acting.

There is nothing in it that isn't Epic Fail. It's mindless pretend-a-thon for those too tired to reach out for the remote and change the channel.

That kind of 'pro-wrestling' (LOL) want's to be theatre, but lacks the skills on both the actors and the director.

Calling it 'sport', 'entertainment', 'professional' or even wrestling is like saying all American Idol contestants are good singers. It just does not compute. It's the universal divide by zero-statement.

 

[goatzilla8463]

Thinking of sweaty men in tight pants grappling makes me squirm.

 

[Not Good]

Large muscular men grabbing randomly at each other, all oiled up and sweating. Sounds to me like a gay fantasy.

 

[new_age_reject]

I stopped being a fan about the time WWF turned to WWE.
I realised how gay it was.

 

[Bullfrog1983]

I thought it used to be pretty good from the 90s til 2004 - they had a lot of interesting "stables" (the Corporation, DX, the Ministry of Darkness, the Union, etc.) and had actual personalities for most of the wrestlers. Take a look at "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, he was as likely to beat someone up as he was to help them. Was it because he was a drunk and wanted to fight? Or did he owe the person he was talking to some payback?

Plus the wrestling was way more dangerous and entertaining (like when Shane fell off the Titantron, or the flying elbow by Steve Blackman afterwards, or Mick Foley vs. the Undertaker in any Cage matches.)

An example of a weekday match sometime in 02-03:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abEBBQm9F_Y

Compared to a newer one (a tribute night to Eddie Guerrero who is in the first video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjUNVIyYao8

I haven't watched wrestling in about six months, but back then every single guy had the same personality (at least in the WWE) - a brand sensitive primadonna that thought they were the greatest of all time and deserved to be the champ but with the verbal skill of a child. This would be fine except for any time they want to talk trash to one another.

Thus a conversation could go like this:

"I'm the best!"
"No way, I'm the best!"
"Then why did I kick your ass a few weeks ago?"
"I'll kick your ass!"

*scrum ensues until bodyguards separate them*

Compared to the "Attitude Era":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYOno0d6cmU

Anyway, that's my opinion and i'm sticking to it.

 

[Skeleon]

Meh, not my kind of sport.
I think it's stupid.