Do grown men actually watch this stuff? I stopped watching WWE at like 13/14.
You do realise we as grown men also watch a bunch of football players run around kicking a sphere object getting paid thousands to do so.
Nothing wrong with a bit of wrestling.
Professional Wrestling is cool
Football is completely unscripted - Wrestling is scripted and rehearsed I'd imagine so they are worlds apart, you could even argue that the WWE/Scripted wrestling is more of a performance than an actual sport.
You've missed the point. Both are things you get into as a child and watch as an adult. There's probably some incredible cool person posting on football forums asking if grown men still watch it as they stopped when they were 12/13.
The point is ones a real legit sport and ones an acting show, there is wrestling as a sport which is real and brutal but the TV stuff is very different to that.
So what exactly is "the point" you're alluding to, because you've not made it very clear what you're saying. Something to do with adults knowingly watching a scripted TV show that you don't watch?
Not having a dig. Just baffled as to what you want to convey or learn.
I guess what I’m getting at is why do adults want to watch it when there are versions of it that are completely unscripted and surely are more entertaining?
I just don’t get the lure for it as an adult, I can completely understand it as a child.
The thing is, wrestling isn’t really trying to compete with real, unscripted sports. It’s more like a live-action TV show or theater production that just happens to be built around athleticism and fighting.
For a lot of adults including myself, the appeal comes from the storytelling. It’s like a soap opera with body slams. You know it's scripted, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be emotionally engaging.
Do grown men actually watch this stuff? I stopped watching WWE at like 13/14.
You do realise we as grown men also watch a bunch of football players run around kicking a sphere object getting paid thousands to do so.
Nothing wrong with a bit of wrestling.
Professional Wrestling is cool
Football is completely unscripted - Wrestling is scripted and rehearsed I'd imagine so they are worlds apart, you could even argue that the WWE/Scripted wrestling is more of a performance than an actual sport.
You've missed the point. Both are things you get into as a child and watch as an adult. There's probably some incredible cool person posting on football forums asking if grown men still watch it as they stopped when they were 12/13.
The point is ones a real legit sport and ones an acting show, there is wrestling as a sport which is real and brutal but the TV stuff is very different to that.
So what exactly is "the point" you're alluding to, because you've not made it very clear what you're saying. Something to do with adults knowingly watching a scripted TV show that you don't watch?
Not having a dig. Just baffled as to what you want to convey or learn.
I guess what I’m getting at is why do adults want to watch it when there are versions of it that are completely unscripted and surely are more entertaining?
I just don’t get the lure for it as an adult, I can completely understand it as a child.
Some people just like different things to you. It really is that simple
I get that, but I’m interested in why people like it? Like what makes it exciting even though it’s fake, is Logan Paul that good of an actor?
Ever watched a film in your life? Even ones where the plot is a bit corny and the acting average at best? That's wrestling, but wrestling has some pretty cool action moments every week
There’s more legitimacy in the action shown in a wrestling ring than your average scripted TV show or film that requires 100 takes per scene to record.
It’s a hybrid between physical action and theatre. Think of a Jackie Chan movie but performed live in front of an audience.
Then throw in the sorts of drama/storytelling that you get in your regular sitcoms. Betrayals, underdog stories, ‘who done it’ situations.
Adults tend to take an interest in the inner workings of the business just as much as the show. A bit like how many people on this forum take interest in the behind the scenes aspects of Charlton. The contracts, transfers, tactics etc.
The behind the scenes elements of the industry can be wildly entertaining. People spilling the beans on who they do/don’t get on with, why they got fired etc. It’s an absolute circus at times.
If you are genuinely curious then watch the ‘Mr McMahon’ series on Netflix. It will blow your mind as to how a “kids TV show” can actually run, and the bonkers backstage goings on around it.
Do grown men actually watch this stuff? I stopped watching WWE at like 13/14.
You do realise we as grown men also watch a bunch of football players run around kicking a sphere object getting paid thousands to do so.
Nothing wrong with a bit of wrestling.
Professional Wrestling is cool
Football is completely unscripted - Wrestling is scripted and rehearsed I'd imagine so they are worlds apart, you could even argue that the WWE/Scripted wrestling is more of a performance than an actual sport.
That's not really the point I was trying to get across.
Take a TV series, or a film, or a fictional book instead.
It's like walking into a cinema and saying what's the point, they're acting, or what's the point in a book, it is just fantasy.
Just because something is scripted or rehearsed, doesn't diminish its value.
If you don't like wrestling entertainment, then fair enough, it isn't for everyone, but to undermine it when its obvious millions of grown adults enjoy it just seems a bit unenlightened.
For me personally, it's the nostalgia, the music, the stories and the big events that keep me tuned in.
There’s more legitimacy in the action shown in a wrestling ring than your average scripted TV show or film that requires 100 takes per scene to record.
It’s a hybrid between physical action and theatre. Think of a Jackie Chan movie but performed live in front of an audience.
Then throw in the sorts of drama/storytelling that you get in your regular sitcoms. Betrayals, underdog stories, ‘who done it’ situations.
Adults tend to take an interest in the inner workings of the business just as much as the show. A bit like how many people on this forum take interest in the behind the scenes aspects of Charlton. The contracts, transfers, tactics etc.
The behind the scenes elements of the industry can be wildly entertaining. People spilling the beans on who they do/don’t get on with, why they got fired etc. It’s an absolute circus at times.
If you are genuinely curious then watch the ‘Mr McMahon’ series on Netflix. It will blow your mind as to how a “kids TV show” can actually run, and the bonkers backstage goings on around it.
Theres Mr McMahon or watch a couple of episodes of Dark Side of the Ring on Channel 4. Some proper batshit crazy stories in that series
Regal said it best, it's the only career you can do where people will say "that thing you do for a living, it's a load of shit isn't it." Yet actors who do their own stunts get praised, and they don't perform them in front of a live crowd.
Wow. Didn’t realise he was even unwell. Arguably one of the biggest names in wrestling history ever. The heel turn at bash of the beach will never been forgotten in the history of the industry. Plus him body slamming Andre the Giant in front of 100k screaming Hulkamanicas.
An absolute icon in the wrestling world. Will divide opinion on Terry Bollea as a person, and was at his height as a wrestler in the good guy/bad guy age of the WWF in the 80s/early 90s, but he was a decent wrestler when he broke through in the 70s and his heel turn in WCW was superb
I’d long since stopped wrestling when he faced off with The Rock at Wrestlemania, but having seen the footage since, the pop in the crowd for that match was immense
RIP - one of the men that built modern sports entertainment imo
Wow. Didn’t realise he was even unwell. Arguably one of the biggest names in wrestling history ever. The heel turn at bash of the beach will never been forgotten in the history of the industry. Plus him body slamming Andre the Giant in front of 100k screaming Hulkamanicas.
RIP, brother.
Not entirely clear that he actually was. I don't wish to speculate but there's other reasons he could have passed without being ill before.
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The thing is, wrestling isn’t really trying to compete with real, unscripted sports. It’s more like a live-action TV show or theater production that just happens to be built around athleticism and fighting.
For a lot of adults including myself, the appeal comes from the storytelling. It’s like a soap opera with body slams. You know it's scripted, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be emotionally engaging.
The behind the scenes elements of the industry can be wildly entertaining. People spilling the beans on who they do/don’t get on with, why they got fired etc. It’s an absolute circus at times.
If you are genuinely curious then watch the ‘Mr McMahon’ series on Netflix. It will blow your mind as to how a “kids TV show” can actually run, and the bonkers backstage goings on around it.
Take a TV series, or a film, or a fictional book instead.
It's like walking into a cinema and saying what's the point, they're acting, or what's the point in a book, it is just fantasy.
Just because something is scripted or rehearsed, doesn't diminish its value.
If you don't like wrestling entertainment, then fair enough, it isn't for everyone, but to undermine it when its obvious millions of grown adults enjoy it just seems a bit unenlightened.
For me personally, it's the nostalgia, the music, the stories and the big events that keep me tuned in.
Anyway, Roman is back! 😃
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RIP, brother.
I’d long since stopped wrestling when he faced off with The Rock at Wrestlemania, but having seen the footage since, the pop in the crowd for that match was immense
RIP - one of the men that built modern sports entertainment imo
When i saw the headline i assumed he was dead sure that he auditioned for Metallica.
He called me a “mark” and blocked me. It’s my only claim to fame.