Should Pro Wrestling be considered a real sport?

[JMaster]

By "Pro Wrestling," I mean things like WWE.
I'm not sure if this has been posted before (I did a search), but the WWE is trying to integrate Pro Wrestling into the Olympics. Pretty absurd, if you ask me. But they get pretty mad if you tell them it's "fake" and not a real sport.
Once I saw this thing on a reporter going to a pro-wrestling training facility and asking if wresting is fake. The guy in charge basically made this scrawny reporter do millions of push-ups and other exercises while screaming in his face, then said "now, do you think it's fake?" I don't understand how that proves anything, lol.

 

[notfred]

It could be in the olympics like synchronized swimming or some of the other choregraphed events, I guess.

 

[FoBoT]

poll, poll, where is the poll?

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
poll, poll, where is the poll?

 

[JMaster]

Haha, sorry I messed up the poll.

 

[FoBoT]

haha, sorry i messed up the answer

 

[JMaster]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
haha, i messed up the answer

Hehe.

 

[Koing]

No. Its entertainment not a sport where people compete.

You already have Wrestling in the Olympics.

Pro-wrestling is entertainment (WWE).

At least in synchronized swimming you can compete but in WWE its sccripted........

(no doubt the training to be a WWE sports guy IS tough and such but its no sport where you can compete one on one.)

 

[Drakkon]

hell no...with shows like Tuff E Nuff coming out shoing us that wreslting has and always will be fake (they may hit but its still no UFC) its really pointless to have a competition to see who is faker...All the WWE is good for is entertainment...and even thats lost its edge...they do the same matches only with sometimes different people....the best part sometimes is the stories and the acting...but even that doesnt deserve an award...

 

[fjorner]

just because its athletic and people get hurt doesn't mean its a sport.

lifting boxes at the shipyards require athletic people that sometimes get hurt.

 

[Feldenak]

No

 

[Dragoon42]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
hell no...with shows like Tuff E Nuff coming out shoing us that wreslting has and always will be fake (they may hit but its still no UFC) its really pointless to have a competition to see who is faker...All the WWE is good for is entertainment...and even thats lost its edge...they do the same matches only with sometimes different people....the best part sometimes is the stories and the acting...but even that doesnt deserve an award...

gotta agree with ya

 

[Reliant]

The WWE isn't about who is the best athlete it is about who the people like/dislike which dictates what happens.
At least with stuff like skating and synchronized swimming their scores and success are based on their talent.

 

[Spamela]

it's a sport-like exhibition, sort of like the food at Red Lobster being "SeaFood."

 

[Dacalo]

no way in hell!

 

[amnesiac]

It's as much a sport as RuPaul is a woman.

 

[Hammer]

acting (if you can even call it that) is not a sport

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: amnesiac
It's as much a sport as RuPaul is a woman.

 

[melly]

no. just like curling, bowling, archery, lacrosse, etc....

edit: forgot golf.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: caramel
no. just like curling, bowling, archery, lacrosse, etc....

edit: forgot golf.

Lacrosse not a real sport? Are you on crack? Lacrosse happens to be Canada's national sport. It is violent and tough and full of action. Skill and talent are needed to play it.

 

[Ranger X]

Hell no. WWE is "sports entertainment", as they call it.

It's soap opera for men.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: caramel
no. just like curling, bowling, archery, lacrosse, etc....

edit: forgot golf.

Lacrosse not a real sport? Are you on crack? Lacrosse happens to be Canada's national sport. It is violent and tough and full of action. Skill and talent are needed to play it.

Lacrosse is definitely a sport.

Golf, curling, bowling and archery are lumped together with billiards under the "competitive games" category for me.

Figure skating, ice dancing, gymnastics, diving etc.. (all sports where judges determine a winner based on impressions) are just... well... NOT sports. They're just something to compete in.

(boxing is different though, as the judging is not at all based on impressions. one punch = one point. in skating, 1 spin != 1 point)

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: caramel
no. just like curling, bowling, archery, lacrosse, etc....

edit: forgot golf.

Lacrosse not a real sport? Are you on crack? Lacrosse happens to be Canada's national sport. It is violent and tough and full of action. Skill and talent are needed to play it.

Lacrosse is definitely a sport.

Golf, curling, bowling and archery are lumped together with billiards under the "competitive games" category for me.

Figure skating, ice dancing, gymnastics, diving etc.. (all sports where judges determine a winner based on impressions) are just... well... NOT sports. They're just something to compete in.

(boxing is different though, as the judging is not at all based on impressions. one punch = one point. in skating, 1 spin != 1 point)

I disagree. Gymnastics is as much as a sport as Football. The difference is that can't be scored as Football where a goal is 1 point. You have it on a few attributes. Still a sport just different method of scoring. Judges don't always get it right and at the top level theres not much in between many of the top 1-3 in the World. Thats where the problem is with those sports. Like at the Olympics with the figure skating thing.........

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: heyzeus

Originally posted by: amnesiac
It's as much a sport as RuPaul is a woman.

 

[giguana]

Originally posted by: Ranger X
Hell no. WWE is "sports entertainment", as they call it.

It's soap opera for men.

that's exactly what i say. people have asked me how i can like it, saying it's fake. the atheletics of it is not fake, the story line is. sure they know the outcome of the match before it happens, so what, i don't. i can guess what the outcome is, but i don't know for sure.

as for it being an olympic sport, i agree with everybody. it shouldn't be, because there is too much of a risk for injury with a lot of the moves that they do if it wasn't choreographed.