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  • The Assman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4310·
    11 months ago

    fake wrestling

    Nitpicking, but it’s meant to be entertainment. You don’t call HBO shows fake drama.

    • Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      331·
      11 months ago

      That’s one of the reasons wrestling fans prefer the term scripted or staged as opposed to fake. It still requires tons of athleticism, and lots of wrestlers are still taking very real hits and injuries despite trying to minimize the impacts of them.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        11 months ago

        Pro wrestling has always been theater’s weird cousin from the other side of the tracks. They’re more alike than fans of either are willing to admit.

    • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
      192·
      11 months ago

      Do the people who go “you know that stuffs fake right?” actually think that there are people who think it’s real?

      • Dadd Volante@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        22·
        11 months ago

        The best response to that is to pretend like you are just discovering that for the first time.

        Explain how you believed this entire time a man could summon fire with a wave of his hand, or even come back from the dead, and that they have ruined your worldview.

        When you point out how stupid the question is, makes the conversation short.

        • Dadd Volante@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          Untrue. Vastly untrue.

          What we know as wrestling started off in civil war camps (between battles, Irish soldiers would wrestle each other while the other soldiers would bet on the matches), which eventually turned into a legitimate sport, who’s first World Champion was a man called William Muldoon. Also known as “the solid man”.

          What we know as professional wrestling today can be traced back to 1909 with a match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt, which is considered to be the last legitimate contest for a world title under the banner of “professional wrestling”.

          After that we get the rise of the Gold Dust Trio and what we know as “sports entertainment”.