# In defense of professional wrestling - long

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-professional-wrestling-long/409732>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 28, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-professional-wrestling-long/409732 "2007-06-28T04:45:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-professional-wrestling-long/409732/141 "2007-06-29T10:42:08Z")

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[QUOTE=brickbacon]  
When did I call anyone an idiot? I think you have terrible taste, but that doesn’t mean you are an idiot.  
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That was why I indicated a ‘global’ you. You, **brickbacon** , didn’t say it, but it has been said in this thread. I was trying to indicate the difference between simply expressing a negative opinion (what you did), and expressing a negative opinion while calling those whose opinions differ idiots (which a couple have done here and in CS).

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-professional-wrestling-long/409732/142 "2007-06-30T06:26:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Telemark]  
[Ernie “the Big Cat” Ladd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Ladd)  
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Alex Karas  
Dick the Bruiser

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**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-professional-wrestling-long/409732/143 "2007-07-01T10:27:49Z")

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[QUOTE=Hampshire]

It’s as if you’d go to see The Godfather in a packed theatre and when the audience is stunned when Sonny kills Fredo you’d stand up and declare “You stupid fools, it’s fake, he’s not really dead, if you believe that I question your IQs.”  
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But Sonny didn’t kill Fredo. Al Nieri did.

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