favorite professional wrestler of all time

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chalmers

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I don't understand why people have such a big deal with it. "But it's fake!"

Uh we know. So are all your movies and sitcoms.

"But they act like it's a real sport."

No, they don't. It's entertainment. If you don't like it, don't watch/comment/think about it. Pretty simple.
 

KeithTalent

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People saying no one really gets hurt are fucking idiots.

This. If you watch the documentary I linked earlier, you can see the real toll on their bodies. Terry Funk is almost a cripple. :\

KT
 

alkemyst

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I don't get in to wrestling or MMA much anymore, but they are all athletes and pay that price to entertain.

IMHO MMA is so controlled it's just today's WFW. Chances are the real 'champs' will be some dirtbag that no one wants to watch...so they add rules.
 

Mossimo142

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fatpat268

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I don't understand why people have such a big deal with it. "But it's fake!"

Uh we know. So are all your movies and sitcoms.

"But they act like it's a real sport."

No, they don't. It's entertainment. If you don't like it, don't watch/comment/think about it. Pretty simple.

Well, you have a lot of people watching more MMA than in the past, and they're seeing how fake wrestling is.

Also, the terrible acting doesn't help.
 

QueBert

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Well, you have a lot of people watching more MMA than in the past, and they're seeing how fake wrestling is.

Also, the terrible acting doesn't help.

There's a difference between fake and scripted. Undertaker threw Mankind off the top of a 20 foot steel cage. I'm pretty sure that wasn't fake, because I saw it with my own eyes. The bumps they take are real, it's just a pre determined outcome. Fake would mean they're not really throwing each other off the top of steel cages and shit like that.
 

erikistired

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LOL, grown men watching and discussing professional wrestling. This thread is golden.

don't you have some sheep to molest?

also, to add to my first reply, degeneration x in their prime was fun to watch. actually the attitude era as a whole was fun to watch. the product has really paled since then. the rock, stone cold, dx, the new age outlaws, the montreal screwjob, dx invading wcw, mick foley and his craziness. and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
 
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Triumph

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I grew up watching the heydey of the WWF in the 80's, and got back into it in the late 90's during WWF and WCW resurgence with NWO, HBK, Steve Austin, etc. But you gotta love the classic wrestling of the 50's and 60's. These guys were setting the format that wrestling would take, and people Really got into it, without, I believe, a majority of them knowing it was rigged.

When my dad came to this country from Germany in 1960, he lived with an older distant cousin and his wife from the homeland who were already citizens here. The old frau would really get into the saturday night wrestling, yelling at the screen in German like it was the end of the world. How could she not get into a match like this one, the German heel Hans Schmidt versus the red Soviet menace of the Volkoff brothers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOXBp69_kZk
 

KeithTalent

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I grew up watching the heydey of the WWF in the 80's, and got back into it in the late 90's during WWF and WCW resurgence with NWO, HBK, Steve Austin, etc. But you gotta love the classic wrestling of the 50's and 60's. These guys were setting the format that wrestling would take, and people Really got into it, without, I believe, a majority of them knowing it was rigged.

When my dad came to this country from Germany in 1960, he lived with an older distant cousin and his wife from the homeland who were already citizens here. The old frau would really get into the saturday night wrestling, yelling at the screen in German like it was the end of the world. How could she not get into a match like this one, the German heel Hans Schmidt versus the red Soviet menace of the Volkoff brothers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOXBp69_kZk

Lol that was awesome; commentator is hilarious. 'Da da da, that's all the Russian I know'. :D

KT
 

Woosta

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Wrestling is like acting except there's action taking place.

The physicality of those acts are real:

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Even though sometimes the physicality is not always extreme and is played out depending on the situation
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Wrestlers probably take the most abuse out of any athlete, at least the ones on the road with the WWE who have to take bumps for 300 + days a year. All those bumps add up, you're forced to work through injuries which results in permanent injuries sometimes, it's a gigantic mental strain which is why so many wrestlers are dying off from painkillers/meds.

I'd rather do MMA professionally than be a wrestler - eff that.
 
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Woosta

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and,,, more of,,, the greatest era
late 90s
early 00s
, nothin touchin that era

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, forgive me for not posting wcw ones
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fatpat268

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There's a difference between fake and scripted. Undertaker threw Mankind off the top of a 20 foot steel cage. I'm pretty sure that wasn't fake, because I saw it with my own eyes. The bumps they take are real, it's just a pre determined outcome. Fake would mean they're not really throwing each other off the top of steel cages and shit like that.

I never said that everything was fake. There's been some serious injuries over the years, sure.

But I'm talking about the overall cheesiness of wrestling nowadays. I recently tried watching WWE and TNA, and I couldn't make it more than 30 minutes of watching it anymore. It's too goofy now, and the fights just seem faker than ever before. I never noticed that when I was ~13 years old.