I’m with PeterWiggen on this one. “Currie, you muppet…go wide!..don’t give it away again…We’re supposed to be at home…” (Well, that’s on current form, anyway)
Not to mention endless discussions of what the manager doesn’t do right.
It is improvisational theatre.
You have heroes and villains and the outcome is not known. There can be dramatic comebacks, devastating losses, miracles, and redemption.
I used to know a guy who was very dyslexic and he was told he was LD for much of his life and such and he liked Pro Wrestling. He once said to me, “I know it’s all fake and the outcome is set before the match starts, but then again, so is a book.”
Well . . . yeah. But not entirely. Pro wrestling is not a genuine athletic competition. But it is a genuine athletic performance – not many people could do it. And there is a kind of artistic quality to all the silly rivalries and grudges they set up to be “settled” in the ring. That said, I hardly ever watch it. I remember once, many years ago, Saturday Night Live was pre-empted by a pro wrestling match . . . and I watched for at least ten minutes before I figured out this was not, in fact, an SNL parody of pro wrestling.