I really don’t get it - why, why, why do I watch World Wrestling Entertainment??
I’m a generally non-violent person, and don’t particularly enjoy watching violence on the TV either. I can’t bear soap operas. I’m generally put off by pre-arranged and rehearsed “spectacles”. And I’m convinced the WWE is one gigantic, very well orchestrated, unapologetically violent soap opera. And I still enjoy watching it.
I have full respect for the people who run the show, because it is SO well organised. I have even more respect for the wrestlers themselves, because they are true athletes. Rarely does one see such a collection of people in such amazing physical shape.
But they are bad actors, and it shows in the ring. Wrestlers are already falling a few moments before they get rammed with that ‘flying clothesline’! I think The Rock has great charisma and attitude, not to mention physical prowess, but I don’t think much of his trademark ‘rock bottom’ move - If wrestlers can recover from a loud smack to the head with a steel chair (are they really steel?), then surely he can get up from the ‘people’s elbow’!! But nooooo. Seeing The Undertaker lift his opponent above his head and throw him to the canvas is amazing - I marvel at his strength. But at the same time, doesn’t it hurt being thrown from 7 above the ground onto your back?? Don’t things break where they shouldn’t??
And don’t get me started on the women in the WWE!! Do they actualy enjoy fighting (they rarely ‘wrestle’) in their underwear in front of 30,000 people??? Aren’t they afraid something might go ‘snap’?? And mud-fights?? Thats demeaning, no matter how much you get paid!!
And I still enjoy watching the show!! Does anyone have an explanation for this??
Yes, the bumps are real.
The women do it for the fame, I guess.
For me, it’s the spectacle (nothing like a Van Terminator), the cheese factor and the men.
Well, Steve Austin is an alleged Wife Beater, Val Venis is a Republican, Eddie Guerrero has a drug problem, Brian Christopher and the Raod Dogg like to toke, Mick Foley is a pretty good author, and Triple H likes bacon.
Speaking of HHH, I saw that last fight between him and his ex-best friend. Heck, I saw what he ‘did’ before that fight!
Have these guys gone a bit soft in the head??? Why would anyone agree to a fight which would end up like this one did!?!?!? A fella would have to hate someone something BAD to do that kind of damage. Seriously. Why would Sean Micheals agree to getting beat up like that??
Me to about the love hate thing. We had wrestling parties all throughout highschool. I liked the fact that they all had some kind of goofy gimmick. (The Barber, Jake the Snake, British Bulldogs, The Ultimate Warrior, etc.) I stopped watching though, when they had men fighting skimpy clad women in the ring or smacking them around outside the ring. I have no prob with the women fighting the women though.
ALOT of young kids watch this stuff, I didn’t like the message my son might have picked up. Just when we start watching again, and my son is in love with Steve Austin, I have to have a talk with him about what he did. At the end I asked him what he thought and he says “I don’t think I like him anymore” (all by himself, I was so proud).
I also kind of miss the times when they’d show up at a local high school and wrestle unknowns. Are they even using unknowns anymore? And what happened to the guys/girls who were training to be wrestlers on that reality show?
Yes, you too can learn to cut promos like the one you just read by enrolling in the Jeff Hardy School of Mumbling Bumbling Public Speaking. Soon young hardygrrl will learn to improvise with an “ohhhhYEAAAAHHHH”. When Ms. grrrrrrrrrrl reaches advanced classes, she’ll have Prof. Nash explaining the importance of flipping your long, shiney locks (if she doesn’t get confused with the shiney part first) while properly begining her promo with “Ya know” or the ever popular “I’ve got something to say”. In true showman (or grrl) style, she’ll continue to learn not just how to copy other styles, but to avoid trying out her own, and instead use phrases half a decade old to invoke “cheap heat”. Until then, please continue to “smell what the hardygrrl is cooking”.
