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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2019 18:17:24 GMT -5
For a long time, pro wrestling to me was always "less than" when it was compared to traditional sports like basketball, baseball, football. As a kid I had thousands of sports cards, and I think out of all of those, I had one or two wrestling cards from the '80s, one being of Andre. Later, I rented WCW/nWo Revenge a few times, had a Scott Steiner action-figure, and then a handheld video game of Rick Steiner vs. Scott Steiner. I was obsessed with sports - pro and college - knew all the stats, champions, so on, so forth. Wrestling was on the radar but toward the bottom, under boxing, bowling, billiards, more "off beat" sports.
Then in late 1999 I came across The Rock and Mankind in a match on RAW, and I became obsessed, moving wrestling to the very top.
I personally think most sports fans in America are like what I was initially - pro wrestling is on the radar, but it's more of a novelty sport. That's kind of how ESPN treats it.
What causes us "obsessed" wrestling fans to break away from most sports fans and put wrestling toward the top instead of treating it as a "novelty"?
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Post by LA Times on Jun 20, 2019 18:39:42 GMT -5
We simply enjoy it more than football, MMA, movies, sitcoms, reality shows and other sports or forms of entertainment.
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Jun 20, 2019 18:58:53 GMT -5
Football is always and will be number 1 for me . Wrestling is a close second but it’s just different. I think mostly because wrestling has no off season so I can’t really miss it like I do football
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Post by vampiroporvida on Jun 20, 2019 19:27:08 GMT -5
Acrobatic violence we could only dream of doing and sanctioned, characters we wish we were, cartoon storylines we can invision ourselves in, and some other stuff. Nothing sparks the creative mind in sports like wrestling.
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Post by LK3 on Jun 20, 2019 20:02:04 GMT -5
Good question. Maybe because it is treated as less-than “real sports” is part of the reason. It’s just one of things that when you’re into it, you’re INTO it.
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Post by k5 on Jun 20, 2019 22:03:51 GMT -5
wrestling needs characters strong enough to cross into the mainstream to connect with it. Hogan, Austin, Rock and to a lesser degree Cena are examples of this. we haven’t had a strong enough character to do that in a long time.
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Post by finnbalor1 on Jun 21, 2019 1:04:01 GMT -5
Football is always and will be number 1 for me . Wrestling is a close second but it’s just different. I think mostly because wrestling has no off season so I can’t really miss it like I do football I'm the same, NFL has always and probably will always be my favorite thing to watch but Wrestling is probably 2nd or 3rd on my list. |
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Post by ~ Cymru ~ on Jun 21, 2019 2:20:50 GMT -5
Its not like regular sport yeah there's athleticism but there's storyline and a huge sense of unpredictability that you don't get with other sports.
Then again I don't care for other sports.
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Post by Markw on Jun 21, 2019 4:33:37 GMT -5
It's mainly because most of you haven't given the best sport in the world a proper chance.
But it's above any other combat sport precisely because it's 'fake'/scripted.
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Post by LK3 on Jun 21, 2019 4:44:20 GMT -5
Soccer sucks
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Post by ahunter8056 on Jun 21, 2019 5:38:36 GMT -5
Speaking for myself personally, I've never cared whatsoever for any other sport, not even football (or as Americans call it, soccer). Never have, and likely never will. They just never appealed to me. Pro wrestling appeals to me with larger than life characters, insane athleticism, and most importantly, the storytelling. You're not going to find those aspects in any other sport.
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Post by HandsomeHollywood on Jun 21, 2019 10:40:34 GMT -5
Because it's not a sport. It's a tv show like any other. Talent alone doesn't dictate who's best.
It's always been about the stories, drama and pageantry to me.
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Post by marino13 on Jun 21, 2019 12:10:40 GMT -5
I'll watch RAW over anything else. Even if the Steelers vs Dolphins is the Monday Night football game, my focus is still on WWE.
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on Jun 21, 2019 12:15:48 GMT -5
3 words
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Post by Markw on Jun 21, 2019 12:39:35 GMT -5
Behave. It's the most popular sport in the world for a reason, it's comfortably the best. |
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Post by Sting on Jun 21, 2019 18:09:06 GMT -5
Behave. It's the most popular sport in the world for a reason, it's comfortably the best. Agreed lol I used to play 3 times a week when I lived in London but havent played at all in my new city (Colchester) for about 8 months. Finally got the numbers together from my fellow local Pokemon Go players to get a 5 a side sorted for next week ... im soooo excited to play again. Best sport in the world imo |
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Post by greenjack1992 on Jun 21, 2019 20:51:09 GMT -5
I'm a theatre producer by trade, that's how I feed my family, and pro wrestling fascinated me from being a young boy who dreamed of working in live theatre. It's every live entertainment and theatre experience rolled into one:
It's the circus
It's vaudeville
It's melodrama
It's comedy
It's tragedy
It's satire
It breaks the fourth wall
It's gladiators in the colloseum
It's every discipline of dance
It's the only medium where the actor must never admit he is an actor.
It's the only type of performance where the script changes based on the live response of the audience (see: Seth cashing in at WM31).
It knowingly pulls back the curtain but never admits to it.
It has its own culture and language.
Wrestling is so much to me because it satisfies so many of my tastes.
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Post by LK3 on Jun 21, 2019 21:27:57 GMT -5
Behave. It's the most popular sport in the world for a reason, it's comfortably the best. Agreed lol I used to play 3 times a week when I lived in London but havent played at all in my new city (Colchester) for about 8 months. Finally got the numbers together from my fellow local Pokemon Go players to get a 5 a side sorted for next week ... im soooo excited to play again. Best sport in the world imo I don’t mind playing the sport. Always had fun in PE class when we played it. Watching it is the problem for me. And the acts of flopping that are way worse than the NBA. |
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Post by Nivro™ on Jun 21, 2019 23:37:25 GMT -5
Ill have you know that as someone that played soccer for 13 years....You are absolutely correct! |
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Post by Sting on Jun 22, 2019 5:37:38 GMT -5
Agreed lol I used to play 3 times a week when I lived in London but havent played at all in my new city (Colchester) for about 8 months. Finally got the numbers together from my fellow local Pokemon Go players to get a 5 a side sorted for next week ... im soooo excited to play again. Best sport in the world imo I don’t mind playing the sport. Always had fun in PE class when we played it. Watching it is the problem for me. And the acts of flopping that are way worse than the NBA. I can imagine it can get quite boring if you watch it without having grown up in a soccer-loving city. For me I've tried so much to sit through an NFL game but just can't lol |
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