I'm sure I don't have to remind you of the McMahon "Get it?" promo, or all the ridiculous shit Vince Russo has pulled over the years. That is going out of their way.
Plays, musicals and musicians play the same set or do the same show every time, it's a different medium. Wrestling is a changing entity every week with the constant goal of making the same people spend more money. How many copies of a musician's album are you going to buy? If you go and see them twice on tour will you buy the same album or shirt more than once? Every single week these guys are trying to make people care enough to spend money on merch, PPVs, whatever it may be.
Besides which, guys like Eugene are made to kayfabe in public, why the hell shouldn't students?
And saying there's an artificial argument about a fake sport is a bit facetious, don't you think
