Hulk Hogan to speak at RNC

They love made-up things. Conspiracy theories, the Deep State, QAnon, Antifa, professional wrestling, NASCAR, Donald Trump.

The average "pro" wrestler would last about 2 minutes with an actual wrestler. When I grew up, even the football players left those guys alone.

 

I thought that World Wrestling League (or whatever they are called) was much more of an entertainment show than a sport. That is that it is scripted and who wins or loses is part of the script? Now I know they have to be good athletes or must at least LOOK like good athletes. Disclaimer: I have never watched much.

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No. My assertion was that a "pro" wrestler would last about 2 minutes with an actual wrestler. What you're offering isn't an assertion, it's an inference. I made none, leaving that to others.

 

It's ALL scripted. Always. Totally fake (as a competition).

Consider how regulated boxing is. If wrestlers actually did what they pretend to do, it would be illegal in every state. It is choreographed, including the outcome, and has always been such. Kabuki theater.

 

No, that is not the inference I would draw from my statement. If you'd like, here it is: People who actually wrestle would destroy people who only pretend to wrestle.

This is tedious. I hope we're done here.

 

Except that there is no "real Wolverine," but there ARE real wrestlers. The analogy fails.

 

I am pretty sure Stallone or Michael B. Jordan would not last 2 minutes against real professional boxers, and Tom Cruise would make a lousy fighter pilot. Likewise, Medieval Times knight will lose a fencing match in any competitive discipline. I am not sure what or anything is demonstrated by these blindingy obvious observations.

 

You're kidding, right? You don't see the difference? Actors are not going around telling people they are the really the roles they're playing. Stallone isn't telling people he's a boxer. But professional wrestling has ALWAYS portrayed itself as an actual sport, an actual competition, with actual outcomes. In fact, if you tell the average wrestling fan that it is all make-believe, he'll be pretty angry with you. They don't like the lies to be challenged by the facts. Sounds like a certain political party, no? It's fitting that Terry Bollea would be speaking there.

 

Really? I don't see ot that way. Wrestling fans may be very invested in maintaining "kayfabe", but not seeing the difference between it and the reality? After all, it's not exactly subtle. People form deep emotional and parasocial attachments to characters and story lines in telenovellas, too - it doesn't mean they don't know these are fictional. As someone noted, if it was legitimate competition, a lot of wreslers' actions would amount to grave rulebreaking, even felonies - in fact, that's the whole point of a "heel" character. You really think an "average fan" never asks why say "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (dated example) never gets disqualified or arrested when he cheats or assaults people outside of a ring, on national TV? Seriously?

 

Ugh. Pass. Enjoy the last word.

 

Hey, to distract a little:

I was into Kung-Fu as a young man and was convinced Sumo was not a real thing. So, when the local sumo guys had their open day, I went there, chatted a little with them and challenged them to a fight. I was at my physical prime and weighed approx. 90 kg then, and I was quite REALLY well trained. I got my trial fight. That guy just grinned as my two well-placed kicks and then, he simply threw me out of the ring. Without any visible signs of effort.

Hard lesson in humility, Mac...

 

WWF and a like, became very popular, I rember being fan of Von Erich family of wreslers. And many others. I always viewed it as a mixed circus and acrobatics kinda show.
Yet liked it s lot.

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