Honest question about professional wrestling
- Thread starter dillaxx
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Well that's bullshit. How many fights a year do boxers have? How many matches do football or basketballs players have? I can guarantee you they spend less time on the road than members of the WWE roster.
Find interviews with guys like Kurt Angle or Bobby Lashley or The Rock, where they talk about amateur wrestling or American football compared to pro wrestling. Kurt Angle is an Olympic Gold Medalist, but I can guarantee you it's tougher to be a pro wrestler than an amateur wrestler. How many football players have pulled their groin in a match, got up and continued? How many have pulled an ab musle, got up and continued? How many have blown a hamstring, got up and continued? How many have done all three, in one match, and still finished? Kurt Angle did, in a wrestling ring. And he got paid a lot less than a pro basketball player, boxer or football player.
Wrestling one match does far, far more damage than playing a game of football or basketball. A wrestling match consists, essentially, of repeatedly falling on your back or your knees, from 5, 10, 20 feet in the air. Over and over again. If you're careful. If you're not careful, you end up landing on your neck or your head or you shoulder or your elbow or whatever. People who dismiss wrestling as "fake" seem to think the whole thing is somehow false. As if the ring is made of foam, and landing on it doesn't hurt.
Rob Van Dam, jumping off a 9 foot high turnbuckle onto the floor below. No mats or padding to land on, just his opponent.
Show me a boxer or a basketball player or a football player who could do that, and get back up afterwards? Show me a boxer or a basketball player or a football player who would do that, several times a week, for very little money.
Find interviews with guys like Kurt Angle or Bobby Lashley or The Rock, where they talk about amateur wrestling or American football compared to pro wrestling. Kurt Angle is an Olympic Gold Medalist, but I can guarantee you it's tougher to be a pro wrestler than an amateur wrestler. How many football players have pulled their groin in a match, got up and continued? How many have pulled an ab musle, got up and continued? How many have blown a hamstring, got up and continued? How many have done all three, in one match, and still finished? Kurt Angle did, in a wrestling ring. And he got paid a lot less than a pro basketball player, boxer or football player.
Wrestling one match does far, far more damage than playing a game of football or basketball. A wrestling match consists, essentially, of repeatedly falling on your back or your knees, from 5, 10, 20 feet in the air. Over and over again. If you're careful. If you're not careful, you end up landing on your neck or your head or you shoulder or your elbow or whatever. People who dismiss wrestling as "fake" seem to think the whole thing is somehow false. As if the ring is made of foam, and landing on it doesn't hurt.
Rob Van Dam, jumping off a 9 foot high turnbuckle onto the floor below. No mats or padding to land on, just his opponent.
Show me a boxer or a basketball player or a football player who could do that, and get back up afterwards? Show me a boxer or a basketball player or a football player who would do that, several times a week, for very little money.
i wouldn't say that there is not competition in pro wrestling. obviously there is no compition when it comes to the title shots but these guys have to compete against one another to win over fans by developing their character, their moves, being good in the ring, making it believable. the more they win over the fans the more time in the ring they get and the better their career becomes.
the wrestling companies can try all day long to try and give someone a push and the crowd will just not buy it and that happens all the time. it's really up to that individual to compete against their fellow wreslters to try and be better than another one and develope their character so the audience will buy it.
the wrestling companies can try all day long to try and give someone a push and the crowd will just not buy it and that happens all the time. it's really up to that individual to compete against their fellow wreslters to try and be better than another one and develope their character so the audience will buy it.
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