Wrestling Is REAL!

Ok, being this is my wrestling page I wanted to set something straight and I really wish I wrote this as my first post but I can't go back in time, so it is better late than never.

Okay, I am not stupid - non of us are. Wrestling is ENTERTAINMENT. However that does not make it fake.
No, wrestling is not real in the sense that they are really figting for the title or that the winner actually beat down their opponent until they were actually down for the 3 count - however, wrestling is very real when it comes to contact.

It takes training to "learn" how to fall. It takes training to learn how to perform the moves. It takes training for these athletes to be able to sustain a match.

This is a contact sport. I will repeat that - It is a contact SPORT - yes, sport. Afterall it is called WWE - World Wrestling and Entertainment.

How many people can get kicked in the face and stand back up? How may people can even take the most "fake" of finishers such as The Rockbottom and get straight up? How many people can take that kind of physical abuse day in and day out - going through tables, getting hit by ladders and chairs, suffering concussions, broken bones, pulled muscles, you name it?

There is nothing fake about that. John Cena is that lastest major victim having suffered a torn pectoral muscle while doing one of the most basic moves; a hip toss. He has been rehabbing for about a month but it was said that his injury would take anywhere from 6 months to a year.

Edge is just comming back from a torn pec muscle himself although it wasn't quite as serious. Batista about a year ago was gone from the business for about a year as he had a torn bicep muscle. Taker just returned from a torn bicep himself and there are hundreds of other injuries that they are all going through that just aren't reported as they fight through the pain day in and day out.

This is a brutal business. So, yes, choreography is involved - yes, the ending is set up - yes, they know what move is comming next - yes, the tables are not solid wood as they try to pull them off as and yes, the chairs are aluminum, not steel like most folding chairs, but tell anyone who has ever steped into that ring and taken a shot that it is fake and see if you can stand or even be able to go back to work within a week after they nail you with a spinebuster. You probably won't be able to - they on the other hand often have to kick out of that move to continue their match.
As part of the match you see above Randy Orton (right) is giving an RKO off the ladder to CM Punk (left). Basically, Orton is grabbing Punk by his head and neck and slamming it into the mat below from the top of a 10 or 12 foot ladder.

Is there anything "fake" about that? If you were CM Punk do you think you could get up and finish the match?

The moves hurt and their athleticism is all real. So, anyone who says wrestling is "fake" needs to watch a show and just think like I asked ou to do just know and ponder if that they were were the wrestlers, do they think they could even get up and finish the match - let alone the next morning.