When did you figure out wrestling was fake?

[Xero]

Yeah, when did you realize that it was fake, just like Santa? And how, if you want.

About a year or so after I got into it I remember hearing about a lie detector test that Fred Blassie took (I'm not shitting you, this is what my friend told me and I have no idea if it's true) where he admitted on NBC or some shit that it's fake. I pretty much took that as fact and wasn't misinformed.

Poll years are in years of being a fan, not age. (Yes, I believe at least one person will think they're ages.)

[M-A-G]

My family always made it a point to tell me so I'm guessing when I was a kid sometime before 10 or 11.

[The One]

I knew wrestling was fake before I watched my first episode. Frankly, before I watched I thought they didn't even make contact with one another. I was shoked to see them ACCUTALLY conect with a punch...

[Caged Heat18]

I was little when I first started watching it, so I didn't know it was fake for a few years.

[CSL]

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[ron the dial]

Yeah, I started watching when I was about four, and it took me about three years to figure out that it was fake. Not sure what the exact moment was.

[Impeccable]

My dad sat me down after I watched my first episode of Superstars back in 92, and told me it was fake. He didn't want my brother or I recreating it.

I was 7 at the time, and I'm glad he did, because I appreciated much more (at a young age) how much effort goes into the product.

[Jeritron]

I always knew it was fake. In fact, before I liked it I thought it was faker than it actually is. I used to tell a kid in my 4th grade class he was an idiot and that the blood in pictures in his magazine was fake. I also would tell all kinds of kids who thought it was real that it was fake. But then in 6th grade I got into it (97).


Also, I think that lie detector test was with Captain Lou Albano and Marcia Clark (prosecutor from the OJ simpson case).

Of course, the segment was actually a joke and Lou Albano was acting like he was irate about the results, and Marcia Clark was acting as if it were actually a topic of debate and everyone already didn't know. Ironically, the entire 'lie-detector' special by FOX was faker than wrestling.

[Sadistic]

Started watching in early 1992 then realised it was fake in late 1996.

[D Mac]

Backyard Wrestling aint fake I can tell you that. :shifty:

[Stickman]

This is a tough one to answer. I've been watching since I was 3 and somebody would always tell me it's fake and planned out but I just wasn't sure. Some stuff seemed rediculous. But I'll be honest, it took me awhile to realize it. I think I was in Grade 6 hanging out with another huge wrestling fan, and we were doing moves on each other, but they just weren't hurting at all. We figured we did the move wrong, but we slowed down the moves we were copying and were doing them right. At that point it kind of dawned on both of us that, yes we already knew it's predeterminded, but the moves are fake as well. I'm a dork I know.

[Better Than You]

I took awhile really. My dad is a wrestler and I would see him come home with bumps and bruises almost nightly. So it was hard for me to believe any different. I can remember getting really defensive about wrestling when I was a kid. It really bothered me to hear someone say wrestling was fake, cause that meant my dad's bruises were fake to. Eventually he told me after I had gotten in a fight at school over it. I was crushed to say the least. 6+ years for me.

[addy2hotty]

Yeah, I started watching when I was about four, and it took me about three years to figure out that it was fake. Not sure what the exact moment was.

Hang on, in the other thread, you say it isn't fake. So therefore your answer should be 'I didn't'.

[Kane Knight]

Fake? I'll have you know I missed a trip to Iraq because my neck was broken in this "fake" sport!

:shifty:

Anyway, I figured it out about the time I started watching, whenever that was. When people "sell moves" that don't connect...

[ron the dial]

Hang on, in the other thread, you say it isn't fake. So therefore your answer should be 'I didn't'.
Oh, Jesus. Sorry, I realized it was scripted when I was seven. Wrong word.

[Destor]

You gotta admit. He got you.

[ron the dial]

Okay, I've been had. :(

[Kane Knight]

Oh, Jesus. Sorry, I realized it was scripted when I was seven. Wrong word.

Maybe you shouldn't have tried to play the semantics game in the first place. Just saying, even if you say you realised it was scripted, it's still stupid.

[Arnold HamNegger]

When Rocky III came out.

[Xero]

When Rocky III came out.
So you realized boxing was fake when Rocky I came out?

:shifty:

[ron the dial]

Maybe you shouldn't have tried to play the semantics game in the first place. Just saying, even if you say you realised it was scripted, it's still stupid.
I wasn't the one who started the semantics game. I just used two different words, and got called out on it.

[Volchok]

When I started coming on to TPWW forums...:$, so around late 2000.

[D Mac]

Loose Cannon got no votes. :(

[Jalapeño]

Like, yesterday.

[JohnnyA]

There's nothing really fake about it. Injuries, blood, lack of insurance, lack of job security, drugs, alcohol, pain-killers, terrible schedule, depression, rage, lack of trust, politics, limited spots, limited work.

And people still scream because god-knows-who had a run-in instead of being thrown on to a bed of tacks and set on fire. The business is harder than anything that comes across on television, or that even smarks think it is. 'Smark' is not an endearing term.

But hey, 'It'd be cool to work with WWE because I would totally turn that product around. My STORYLINES would be the SHIT.'

So yes, it's still real to me damn it. :kiss:

[The Ravishing One]

I always knew, because id always get people asking me to turn "that fake shit" over.

[the wwe champion]

I realised it was fake when cena's spinner belt was excepted as the wwe title belt.

[Anybody Thrilla]

My mom told me right away that it was fake, but I thought she was lying for a couple years.

[El Fangel]

It looked real for awhile but I then realized that, no one could take all that shit and still be able to get up from it.

[ChiefStubbs]

Well, I've only been watching wrestling for, like, a year, and I knew it was fake then, but it just entertains me.

[El Fangel]

Dude You have some pretty fucking low standards of entertainment.

[Crippla]

I've been a wrestling fan my whole life and I can't stop watching all together. I guess I have low standards too.

[El Fangel]

Its different for older viewers as they will watch no matter what, and they know that there was a time when it was entertaining. Newer viewers have no as to what type of shit they are watching.

[Jeritron]

Aside from my vote, I'd like to just thank Terry Funk for saying what NEEDS to be said.

[ChiefStubbs]

My deal, is that I am waiting for wrestling to get better. I also watch it when it's on, because I don't have much else to do.

[El Fangel]

Save you some trouble, its not going to get better, and man find something to do before you become more like us, clinging to the hope that professional wrestling in the last five years was just a storyline.

[Xero]

Save you some trouble, its not going to get better, and man find something to do before you become more like us, clinging to the hope that professional wrestling in the last five years was just a storyline.
*Rocking back and forth*

"Vince will wake up! Vince will wake up! Vince will wake up!"

[El Fangel]

:lol:

[NeanderCarl]

I started watching in early 1992. I kind of overlooked all the Papa Shango shit that year, but it was the Undertaker stuff in 1994 that kinda convinced me it was fake. The green mist coming from the urn, depriving the Undertaker of his powers? Even as an 11 year old I didn't buy it.

But even then I thought maybe it's just that the theatrics were staged and the matches themselves were real. That was until Shawn Michaels won the 1995 Royal Rumble, conveniently setting up the match between the feuding 'HBK' and Diesel at WrestleMania XI. That's when I gave up any thought that it was real, and just decided to enjoy it for what it is.

[Kane Knight]

*Rocking back and forth*

"Vince will wake up! Vince will wake up! Vince will wake up!"

(clutching Hogan doll)

"It's all a work...Vince is a genius...Its brilliant!"

[Flair Wooo]

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