jason,I ahve identified the diseased area of your thinking. You still look at wrestling as a "fake sport". When something has never claimed to be legitimate, how can you call it fake?
Professional Wrestling is not a "sport" persay, although it does have aspects of sport in it. Pro wrestling is performance art. It is a Ballet with Balls.
Think of it this way. With your thinking, you would never watch ER because the ER patients aren't really hurt. That doesn't make any sense.
As for wrestlers not tryin gto hurt each other... well DUH. WRESTLING ISN'T A SPORT. When Shakespearean actors have a sword fight, they aren't actually trying to kill each other are they?
Wrestlers protect one another in the ring (except for RVD
). They do that mainly because they realize that wrestling is their liveliehood (sp?). If they were always trying to actually hurt one another,there wouldn't be many wrestlers out there. But the fact is that no matter how well you protect one another, injuries are going to happen and they will happen often. Yes, they know how to fall, but that AIN'T a trampoline they're fallin' on. Its a very stiff ring with little give. The WWF ring is actually notorious for being one of the hardest. We have lost far to many wrestlers to pain killer addiction because of the constant pain and injury that they work with. HHH tore one of his quad muscles COMPLETELY in a live match, yet he still worked for 5 more minutes and was actually put in a boston crab AFTER the tear. Lets see ANY other pro athelete do that.
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