Professional Wrestling... anyone?

[E-bortion]

Do any of you guys still partake in the guilty pleasure that is professional wrestling? I just recently got into WWE again, not having watched it since the days of WCW/NWO and WWF. I've actually found myself really, really enjoying it. On the other hand, I'm watching TNA for the first time and it's... pretty awful. The canned heat is enough to make it almost embarrassing to watch. The crowd is clearly uninterested and it makes it really hard to embrace. Not to mention, Rick Flair's body makes me nauseous ...Much more than it used to.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

I was a big fan as a kid. Loved WWF, WCW and ECW. ECW from 1995-1998 is the best wrestling ever. WWF from 88-92 was good, too. It got shitty for a while but picked up with the attitude era. That was worth watching for the comedy alone. I have not watched anything for years and years now. It totally bores me. But I could be persuaded to watch some old school shit, probably.

 

[Talking Backwards]

Do any of you guys still partake in the guilty pleasure that is professional wrestling? I just recently got into WWE again, not having watched it since the days of WCW/NWO and WWF. I've actually found myself really, really enjoying it. On the other hand, I'm watching TNA for the first time and it's... pretty awful. The canned heat is enough to make it almost embarrassing to watch. The crowd is clearly uninterested and it makes it really hard to embrace. Not to mention, Rick Flair's body makes me nauseous ...Much more than it used to.

When I was a child, I had friends that would just gush over Hulk Hogan and whatever incarnation of Ultimate Warrior who had not yet died from steroid abuse was around. I'd go to their house and even as a child could never see the appeal fo the obviously super fake "wrestling". I knew how entirely rigged it was, and it also didn't even look like half of the hits were doing anything. But they just couldn't get enough of it, and it was always some huge event. Much later on in life, when I was no longer a child, I had some friends who were still into that stuff, and they even made their own backyard ring and had contests of their own that weren't nearly as fake. That was pretty cheesy too, but it was a good workout.

So there are three things I can say that I do not do in life: drink, do any non prescribed drugs or watch "professional" wrestling.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

^ horrible reply in all regards.

 

[craptastic]

Professional wrestling.

Yeah because watching The Days of Our Lives in Spandex mixed in with Steroids is fuckin cool.

Lifetime movies are less gay.

 

[Shpongled]

^ horrible reply in all regards.

Seriously. Dude sounds boring as hell.

 

[Macharius]

He's probably all gaga for jesus.

 

[Talking Backwards]

Seriously. Dude sounds boring as hell.

UFC > WWF crap, even with it's neutered ruleset.

 

[Shpongled]

Wrestling and fighting has nothing to do with why I said that.

Everybody knows wrestling is fake, especially your die hard childhood friends. They just happened to enjoy it and get entertainment from it while you thought it was retarded for no good reason other than it's not real. It's this kind of attitude that makes you appear to me that you wouldn't be any fun to hang out with in general.

edit: add also the fact you felt compelled to tell us how you don't do drugs or drink when it wasn't even a topic of discussion prior. I bet you do that quite a bit.

 

[Talking Backwards]

edit: add also the fact you felt compelled to tell us how you don't do drugs or drink when it wasn't even a topic of discussion prior. I bet you do that quite a bit.

Yeah, you totally have my number. It's too bad I can't think something you obviously greatly enjoy is utterly retarded without you getting your panties all knotted up. I'm sure if I said that it was super fantastic that you wouldn't have opened your mouth. You also completely missed the point of the three things I listed. It's what all the "cool kids" seem to think are the best things ever.

 

[E-bortion]

Wrestling and fighting has nothing to do with why I said that.

Everybody knows wrestling is fake, especially your die hard childhood friends. They just happened to enjoy it and get entertainment from it while you thought it was retarded for no good reason other than it's not real. It's this kind of attitude that makes you appear to me that you wouldn't be any fun to hang out with in general.

edit: add also the fact you felt compelled to tell us how you don't do drugs or drink when it wasn't even a topic of discussion prior. I bet you do that quite a bit.

I love you Kevin. Just sayin'.

 

[Shpongled]

Yeah, you totally have my number. It's too bad I can't think something you obviously greatly enjoy is utterly retarded without you getting your panties all knotted up. I'm sure if I said that it was super fantastic that you wouldn't have opened your mouth. You also completely missed the point of the three things I listed. It's what all the "cool kids" seem to think are the best things ever.

And this doesn't even make any sense. I never said I enjoyed wrestling, did I? I don't. At all. But I can understand why some people do, unlike yourself.

 

[E-bortion]

It's what all the "cool kids" seem to think are the best things ever.

The cool kids in PSAs maybe?

 

[Archelaos]

I loved it in my teens. I'm trying to get back into it. But the lack of focus on actual athletic ability is really irritating.

CM Punk FTW! Can't lie, he's the only thing sucking me in anymore. He's always been fuckin' cool.

 

[Archelaos]

ALSO. Let's clear this fake thing up right now.

Preplanned and fake are totally different things. Shit hurts. Rings aren't very padded. Steel chairs are not at all. Tables are made of cheap shit, but they still hurt as well. It's just a well choreographed, painful dance.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

i stopped watching because I really don't like wrestling that isn't violent. the problem was that all the guys were doing such high impact stuff that they were getting hurt frequently. this was a factor in the steroid abuse among wrestlers, for recovery purposes. what mcmahon did was order the guys to go soft. all the impacts, if you pay attention are 'flat'. no one lands on their necks or shoulders or gets folded up anymore. it's good he's trying harder to protect his wrestlers but unfortunately this type of wrestling is boring. i want people to get their asses kicked ala ECW back in 1996. that shit was unfuckingbelievable.

 

[Mr.Sister]

I stopped watching, because I became 16.

 

[BasilisK]

I stopped watching because of this thread.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I stopped watching because I never watched this shit.

 

[Liverslapper]