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Pro Wrestling Fans: Please Explain the Appeal, Cause I Just Don't Get It.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by MacBeth, Sep 26, 2003.

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  1. MacBeth

    MacBeth Member

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    I realize that it's almost impossible to ask someone to account for their tastes, nor should anyone have to. I am not attacking fans of pro wrestling so much as trying to gain a sliver of insight into the appeal, which for me seems as inexplicable as people who think Elvis Presley could act, or that Yoko Ono could sing.


    As a huge sports fan, pro wrestling seems to me to be lacking the very thing which makes sports so watchable; the reality. Knowing that it's all decided and choreographed before either 'wrestler' steps into the ring...I'm sure you have pat answers to this, as it's an obvious question you must hear a lot...but what does that leave you with? Big musclemen in flashy outfits pretending to hurt each other? What would Freud say? ;)


    But seriously, what's the appeal? The spectacle? I am not saying that what they do doesn't take some skill, even some athleticism...but so does the speed bag, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to watch a guy take on the speed bag for an hour, let alone pay for it. Now if the speed bag had a legitimate chance, maybe, but it doesn't, and neither does the designated loser in wrestling. Let me ask you something...if an NBA game was pre-determined, if all the players knew the outcome before they tok the floor, would you watch it? Pay big bucks? They'd still be top level athletes in shiney costumes...there would still be a spectacle...but wouldn't it all seem pretty silly and pointless?


    But, hey, I don't get the appeal of monster trucks or tractor pulls...although I'd get it even less if they were just pretending.
     
    #1 MacBeth, Sep 26, 2003
  2. Dr of Dunk

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    Watching pro wrestling with the mindset that they're trying to make you think it's real ruins it. No sane person thinks they're trying to make it real. As for knowing the outcome, I still watch re-runs of shows where I Know the ending. I listen to songs I've heard hundreds of times. The WWE is nothing more than one big comedic soap opera. There's not that much to "get".

    I gave up watching RASSLIN', but have returned to watching it. There are things that still amaze me. Like Shane McMahon just falling off a 20 foot scaffold onto a folding table. :eek:
     
    #2 Dr of Dunk, Sep 26, 2003
  3. Kam

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    I heard it was 40.



    Owen hart fell from a 60 feet thing.

    I think.

    hehehe.
     
    #3 Kam, Sep 26, 2003
  4. RIET

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    Have you ever known anyone who enjoyed Shakespeare, Wrestling, Moby Dick and Monster Trucks?

    I don't remember my Venn diagrams but it's the one where the circles don't intersect anywhere.
     
    #4 RIET, Sep 26, 2003
  5. JBIIRockets

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    Riet, when do you move to Connecticut?
     
    #5 JBIIRockets, Sep 26, 2003
  6. RIET

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    I already have but my boss has allowed me to come home every other weekend.

    I really miss the humidity, traffic, fire ants, mold, pollution and pawn shops.

    All I have up here are babbling brooks, colonial houses, little craft shops with homemade jam, and autumn leaves.

    Connecticut sucks.
     
    #6 RIET, Sep 26, 2003
  7. coma

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    What's the Asian population there like?
     
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  8. RIET

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    The only ones Ive seen work at Wang's Palace. Supposedly there are Asians but there are also Unicorns and Gnomes in Mushroom Houses too. And they all live happily together next to the River Styx.
     
    #8 RIET, Sep 26, 2003
  9. coma

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    So I guess I don't have to ask if there's any nail places around town.
     
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  10. RIET

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    Im sure Wang's daughter in law, the Vietnamese chick, has one in a rundown strip mall somewhere.

    Also, Wang's Uncle Chen owns the Sesame Hut II in some food court in a galaxy far far away (next to the Cinnabon.... D3 On Level 1).

    What does this have to do with Wrestling? I have no idea. Sumo "Wrestlers" are Asian so there you go MacBeth. We're back on topic.

    Someone hand me a EasyRider magazine.
     
    #10 RIET, Sep 26, 2003
  11. Kam

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    I've been watching it since I was three years old.
     
    #11 Kam, Sep 26, 2003
  12. coma

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    My favorite wrestler was Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat. So there you go.

    MB,

    Like DoD said, it's the soap opera behind the fights. Once Ricky Steamboat almost lost his career after Randy Macho Man attacked him the the bell, I knew that it was all fake. That's when the drama was what I tuned in for.
     
    #12 coma, Sep 26, 2003
  13. Kam

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    They say that Ricky the Dragon Steamboats match with Rappin'/Macho Man/King Randy Savage was one of the greatest matches of all time.

    WrestleMania III in Pontiac, Michigan.
     
    #13 Kam, Sep 26, 2003
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    Huh? Are you talking about Owen Hart's fatal accident? What is up with the "hehehe?"
     
    #14 Yao Wink, Sep 26, 2003
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    I am a sick sick man.
     
    #15 Kam, Sep 26, 2003
  16. RIET

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    Kam is a meterosexual.
     
    #16 RIET, Sep 26, 2003
  17. Kam

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    I am not that great of a dresser.
     
    #17 Kam, Sep 26, 2003
  18. MacBeth

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    Somehow I suspected that this thread wouldn't quite take the form I was aiming hoped...;)
     
    #18 MacBeth, Sep 26, 2003
  19. coma

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    Don't worry Kam, I'm sure Z Cavarichis will come back in style one of these days.
     
    #19 coma, Sep 26, 2003
  20. RIET

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    Let's get back on topic here.

    I want to know why MacBeth has regressed from dating Pornstars to pontificating about Wrestling and Monster Trucks.

    Good god how the mighty have fallen. This is a sad sad day.

    What next? Marlon Brando playing Jabba the Hut?
     
    #20 RIET, Sep 26, 2003
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