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I always find it entertaining when people who don't watch/follow wrestling call it fake. It's not 'fake', it's scripted. The outcomes are predetermined. But there is no way to 'fake' jumping 20 feet off the top of a ladder through a table. There's no stunt doubles. There's no special FX. It isn't a sport. It's sports entertainment. The people in the industry haven't claimed it was 'real' (non-predetermined) for decades. Everyone knows this. Yet, sure enough, every time someone mentions wrestling there are inevitably a few a non-fans that feel the need to point out that it's 'fake', like they are doing us (fans) a favor by letting us in on the secret. We're the ones that watch it. We know damn well what goes on. It's not 'fake', only predetermined. There is a difference.

The best analogy I can make here would be me going up to some girl who is watching Days of Our Lives and telling her that it's not real. "No fucking shit?" she would say. "Nope, it's fake. The producers already know how Jessica gets out of the abandoned well just like they already know the answer to the mystery of who killed Dmitri." (I don't watch that show, I'm just making an example.) Obviously everyone knows soap operas are scripted, just as everyone knows wrestling is scripted. Wrestling is, quite simply, a soap opera that targets a male audience.

If it was 'fake', then anyone would be able to do it because there would be no skill involved whatsoever. Clearly, that's not the case. I highly doubt that anyone in this forum would be willing to put their body through the punishment that a pro-wrestlers puts theirs through several times a week. A guy named Mick Foley had his tooth knocked through his upper lip. Another guy, Owen Hart, died in the ring. Every couple of monthes a wrestler dies because of an addiction to painkillers. Why would they be taking so many painkillers if it was all fake? The answer is because it's not 'fake'. The outcome being predetermined doesn't mean that pro wrestlers are not putting their bodies, health and in some cases, lives on the line every time they go out there to entertain the masses.


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It's not just 2 beefy dudes either. Have you seen the amount of T&A on WWE programming these days? It borders on indecent.