# Roller Derby

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roller-derby/2833>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 25, 1999, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roller-derby/2833 "1999-08-25T23:10:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roller-derby/2833/1 "1999-08-25T23:10:00Z")

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Okay. We all know (or should know) that professional wrestling is choreographed. (note how I’ve avoided fightin’ words like “fake”)

What about Roller Derby?

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**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roller-derby/2833/2 "1999-08-25T23:23:00Z")

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Are you asking “Is it choreographed?”  
No. It’s faked.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roller-derby/2833/3 "1999-08-26T01:03:00Z")

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In the good olde days ™ Roller Derby was indeed faked. The fights especially.

Proof: Most roller derby arenas have only two locker rooms. The men on both teams share one, the women another. There has never been an instance of a fight in the locker rooms.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roller-derby/2833/4 "1999-08-26T01:05:00Z")

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I used to always watch the real roller derby (not that new roller jazz show) I always thought it was real until my mom told me otherwise. Although I still think that roller derby is real, Roller Jazz doesn’t look real.

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Formerly known as Nec3f on the AOL SDMB

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roller-derby/2833/5 "1999-08-26T01:53:00Z")

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Go, go, go, Philly Warriors! Went to see 'em once at the old Civic Center near the U Penn campus. They had better food that at the Vet.