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[–] 61 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Source: I once did some contract work on a WWE video game and experienced a slice of its fandom.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Watching sweaty roided up men groping each other for hours on end? You do you ;-)

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    There is a very large gay wrestling audience.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (17 children)

    Pro wrestling isn’t a sport, it’s a performance art.

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    [–] 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    "You know those aren't real fights, right? That it's all fake?"

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    What did it originally say?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Interestingly enough, I know multiple queer fans of wrestling. They enjoy the storylines despite the cheese factor and appreciate the skill involved in a lot of the moves, considering it as its own kind of performance art. Like maybe you're not winning any Oscars for selling moves, but when you look at things like the Tombstone Piledriver, which are so difficult to pull off both convincingly and safely that use was restricted for a while to just two wrestlers, I can understand that.

    I have, however, never encountered a single wrestling fan who did not hate Vince McMahon's guts.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I always thought of it like porn.

    There's minimal plot to explain why the guy in a leather banana hammock is mad at the guy in a spandex banana hammock and vest. If you've never been to a ballet, other than the ring, the set, and not singing the interludes, very little is different.

    I honestly love the athleticism. Though, I prefer watching the ladies jump around. Their outfits are more interesting, anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is exactly how I tend to think about it. It’s like the plot in fighting games. It’s just used to ferry the audience from one fight to the next. The actual pretext doesn’t really matter that much, because that’s not why the audience is there. The amount of sheer athleticism that gets displayed on a weekly basis is honestly astounding.

    Sure, pro wrestling is fake. But there is no way to fake a hit like this. The fact that those men didn’t leave on stretchers puts them on par with stuntmen.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Everyone I know into pro wrestling is one of the gayest people I know.

    Granted, nearly everyone I know is pretty gay...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    I always describe the Royal Rumble as 30 men in bathing suits pretending to fight each other and to this point no one has ever told me that this doesn't at least somewhat sound entertaining.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    with the sate of things in american pro wrestling today, it really should be banned. also Vince should be locked up. only THEN we can work on prison abolition after that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Watching them that don't know it a work when you work a work and work yourself into a shoot,marks

    Will never not be fun though

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    This is fake and gay.

    • Fake: pro wrestling
    • Gay: coming out as gay
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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Don't tell them about your award winning target shooting career. Hoo wee

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Shit was hella funny during the Degeneration X years.

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