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Source: I once did some contract work on a WWE video game and experienced a slice of its fandom.
Watching sweaty roided up men groping each other for hours on end? You do you ;-)
There is a very large gay wrestling audience.
Gay-wrestling or gay, wrestling audience lol
Both, homie. Look at the love story behind Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi, or the whole career of Timeless Toni Storm.
Yes
Pro wrestling isn’t a sport, it’s a performance art.
Live stuntmen that act sometimes.
I used to love shonen and hate pro wrestling but had a friend who loved it.
After giving it a fair shake, I gotta admit it's the same damn thing, and I was a muppet.
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"You know those aren't real fights, right? That it's all fake?"
Didn't the coward delete the post and tried to play it off as some kind of joke once people pointed out how fucked up the whole Trump Clan is?
Sir, do you mean to say that Hornswoggle is not REALLY a leprechaun, or that he isn't really the illegitimate son of Vince McMahon?
No, just that the punches are fake. They surround it with all that other real stuff to lend it legitimacy.
If wrestling is fake explain how Mae young gave birth to a mannequin hand in her 70s
Kegels.
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.
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.
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.
I think it takes asking the question of "what is fake and what's not?" Jumping off the top of the ropes onto a folding table isn't fake. The reasons why, sure.
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.
Everyone I know into pro wrestling is one of the gayest people I know.
Granted, nearly everyone I know is pretty gay...
What did it originally say?
It's even better when you notice it maid Shinji
GET IN THE FUCKING MAID UNIFORM SHINJI!
Thank you!
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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.
Watch AEW not WWE
This is fake and gay.
- Fake: pro wrestling
- Gay: coming out as gay
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
Shit was hella funny during the Degeneration X years.
Don't tell them about your award winning target shooting career. Hoo wee
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