So Softer Wrestling has really made pro wrestlers safer, eh?

**Kane Knight** · 08-15-2005, 03:51 PM

Inspired by the "Christian Injured" Topics, I can't help but think (yet again) about how we've watched the WWE get watered down more and more in what's normally called a gesture of "Safety."

However, it hasn't seemed to have had a major impact on the safety of wrestling, only the entertainment value of certain wrestlers. While safety should ALWAYS be a concern in a form of entertainment as risky as wrestling, the step seems needless.

As a result, the sloppy, the lazy, and the boring have benefitted. Not to call up a conspiracy theory, but it seems odd that this benefits the bland, by making the extraordinary ordinary.

So what do we think? Are wrestlers safer these days?

08-15-2005, 03:51 PM	#1
Kane Knight Ron Paul 4 EVA Posts: 152,467	So Softer Wrestling has really made pro wrestlers safer, eh? Inspired by the "Christian Injured" Topics, I can't help but think (yet again) about how we've watched the WWE get watered down more and more in what's normally called a gesture of "Safety." However, it hasn't seemed to have had a major impact on the safety of wrestling, only the entertainment value of certain wrestlers. While safety should ALWAYS be a concern in a form of entertainment as risky as wrestling, the step seems needless. As a result, the sloppy, the lazy, and the boring have benefitted. Not to call up a conspiracy theory, but it seems odd that this benefits the bland, by making the extraordinary ordinary. So what do we think? Are wrestlers safer these days? �There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old�s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.� --John Rogers