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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
It was gayest during the Attitude Era (Guys pumping other guys from behind, DOGGY STYLE) and During the 80s Peak...
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You have a point there. It was kind of the "cool gay", though...
What I mean is that a lot of people thought wrestling was real around that time, and people thought that they were really beating the crap out of their opponents and making them into their bitches. These days it would be seen as a man submitting to another's sexual man-will.
The BIGGEST problem with wrestling, in my opinion, is that people are stupid. Seriously. They are too stupid to realise that the industry is not trying to pass itself off as "real" in the sense of the word, and that movies are no less deceitful.
They see someone "throw a punch" and they point out it is fake. No fucking shit. They are really standing up throwing continual punches at each other when one really good one would have done it. The energy of fans, commentators and other performers focusing so much aggression into one act makes non-fans assume that wrestling fans assume they are watching something real, thus the non-fan, thinking they are "smarter than that", avoid watching it.
I actually think Wrestling Society X could help the wrestling industry. If it points out that the fans are in on the joke, and that it isn't (always) a bunch of idiots believing everything they see, WSX could lead a wrestling revolution. By that I mean it actually gets people to realise that the industry is "meant to be fake", hence escapist entertainment, rather than a serious competition.
WCW got huge by feeding off the talent that came from the smaller WWF, and the WWF fed off of ECW's extremist approach to things. Bigger companies have always taken the ideas from smaller companies and run with it. It is a huge gamble to make, but a wrestling company which gets off the ground and points out the
deliberately staged performances could help WWE and TNA out immensly.
Just a theory on my part, though.