voncouch - I post here and still sometimes watch wrestling because I am a man-child. I can proudly admit it, and realize you have to be a goofy and immature guy to actually wanna watch wrestling. I'm not knocking the business. I just see it what it is. Even in Bret Hart's book, in the very title, he calls it "the cartoon world of wrestling".
......Which news sites NoRoolz? And I really don't see what is weird about calling wrestling "play fighting". That's exactly what it is. They're a bunch of guys pretending to hurt each other, and going, "OW, OW!". Reminds me of my grade school days.
Seriously, have you read some of the stories in wrestler's books? These guys don't act like mature adults at all. They're overgrown little boys.
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Originally Posted by NoRoolz
OK you edited your post with more bullshit so I will have to add a little.
Pro-Wrestling is a sport in it's own right, as well as in terms of it's a combination of sporting skills - martial arts, amateur wrestling, gymnastics, dance, bodybuilding.. could even loosely attach more. It's also a sport in terms of it has prestige, there is a kept 'win/loss record' to some extent, there are titles, there are 'aims' for wrestlers - their success doesn't get determined by TRYING TO WIN the match, but by how they perform, attitude etc (Typically, anyway).
It's only not a sport on the fact that results are pre-determined, the fact that punches don't 100% connect etc don't matter, and neither does the fact that there is drama involved, in depth storylines, promos and so on. They all just combine to make pro-wrestling unique and what it is, there's no way you can out and out say it's not a sport though.
lol Stuntmen.
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If wrestling is a sport, then what stunt people in movies do is a sport too by your logic.
The wrestlers are not really competing unless you count the backstage drama. I'd say that is more like a sport....